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I want to know where you draw the line.
If it’s short of human dignity then its time
To tell your respective governments
To count me out of all their judgments.
To take the young and rip out their hearts,
You can be sure I’ll have no part.
If you’re gonna let poor people starve and die,
I’m gonna wanna know why
Old people are afraid to die,
Young people are committing suicide.
In a world of no meaning with no outlet for expression
All they are being offered is a mechanical existence.
They need to be able to dig down into their soul
And find that core that makes us feel whole.
If the means to these ends continue to be denied
I’m gonna wanna know why.
Drunk drivers, tour bus drivers, and taxis all drive in a hurry,
On the same busy streets where we have to live and worry.
Organized crime has kidnapping and child pornography rings,
While police arrest the victims tempted into shoplifting.
Society is full of ex-convicts who’ve been pent-up and twisted.
Billion dollar spaceships cruise lifeless celestial planets
As people in twenty-six African nations starve and die,
And I wanna know why.
Middle-age rich guys are buying young women,
Into war, drugs, or prison young men are being driven.
We’ve gone too far with this competition.
Human relations are God given.
Men are trying to break women,
Women are trying to bust men.
Address the solution to this moral pollution,
Or we're all gonna wanna know why.
I’m not a citizen who sees the need in prisons,
I’m not a patriot, I have no favorites.
I don’t need society telling me what I ought to be.
I don’t like to have to answer
To an unbalanced police officer.
If I have to drink from ground water
Polluted by a toxic waste contaminator,
I’m gonna wanna know why.
Don’t ask me to support any kind of war.
When you’re out politicking stay away from my door,
You tell me how much better we are and I get bored.
Your side, their side, makes no difference to me,
I won’t discriminate against any race, religion, or creed.
You drop bombs in any people’s city skies,
Whether it’s Russian, Libyan or Iraqian lives,
I’m gonna wanna know why.
Heart of the Beast
The Dirty People
The Sacred Cow
Police and Justice
Gonna Wanna Know Why
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