World Citizen

[Verse 1]

There goes one baby's life

It's such a small amount

She's un-American

I guess it doesn't count

Six thousand children's lives

Were simply thrown away

Lost without medicine

Inside of thirty days

In the New York harbour

Where the stock's withheld

It was the price we paid

For a safer world

[Chorus]

World is suffering

World is suffering

World is suffering

World citizen

[Verse 2]

In Madhya Pradesh

Where they're building dams

They're displacing native peoples

From their homes and lands

So they hunger strike

Cos they believe they count

To lose a single life

Is such a small amount

In the name of progress

And democracy

The concepts represented

In name only

[Chorus]

His world is suffering

Her world is suffering

Their world is suffering

World citizen

World citizen

World citizen

[Verse 3]

And the buildings fall

In a cloud of dust

And we ask ourselves

How could they hate us?

Well, when we live in

Ignorance and luxury

While our super powers practice

Puppet mastery

We raise the men

Who run the fascist states

And we sell them arms

So they maintain their place

We turn our backs

On the things they done

Their human rights record

And the guns they run

[Chorus]

His world is suffering

Her world is suffering

Their world is suffering

World citizen

My world is suffering

Your world is suffering

Our world is suffering

World citizen

[Verse 4]

Who'll do away with flags?

Who'll do us proud?

Remove the money from their pockets

Scream dissent out loud?

Cos God ain't on our side

The shoe won't fit

And though they think the war is won

That's not the last of it

Disenfranchised people

Need their voices heard

And if no one stops to listen

Lose their faith in words

And violence rises

When all hope is lost

Who'll embrace the human spirit

And absorb the cost?

[Bridge]

Not one life is taken

In my name

Not one life is taken

In my name

In my name

Not one life is taken

[Chorus]

His world is suffering

Her world is suffering

Their world is suffering

World citizen

My world is suffering

Your world is suffering

Our world is suffering

World citizen

[Bridge]

Not one life is taken

In my name

In my name

Not one life is taken

In my name

In my name

Not one life is taken

In my name

In my name

Not one life is taken

In my name

In my name

[Outro]

World citizen

World citizen

World citizen

World citizen

His world is suffering

Her world is suffering

Their world is suffering

Our world is suffering

World citizen

World citizen

World citizen