| Every day that goes by A new hungry baby starts to cry |
| Born astride a painful grave |
| Drowned in hunger’s tidal wave |
| Pick a child that you can save |
| It’d be the only one |
| If Africa escapes starvation |
| Not only food but education |
| The desert grows with every minute |
| Trapping everybody in it All the children look the same |
| They wonder why they came |
| But it’s hard to tell the poison from the cure |
| It’s harder still to know the reason why, why, why |
| The only thing I really know for sure |
| Is that another day, another day’s gone by Every day that goes by A brand new missile points towards the sky |
| We’re survivors of a game of chance |
| Beneath an arms race avalanche |
| If you survive this winter’s cold |
| You’d be the only one |
| If we escape annihilation |
| Not only hope but education |
| The world is ruled by Bellophiles |
| Adding to their weapon piles |
| Imagine what your taxes buy |
| We hardly ever try |
| But it’s hard to tell the poison from the cure |
| It’s harder still to know the reason why, why, why |
| The only thing I really know for sure |