Letras
We live in a world where one in four
People live in a state of absolute poverty
Thirty-five thousand children die each
Day because they are born to poor parents
Each year twenty-four thousand people
Are killed and maimed by landmines
And when you hear the information which telling
You that the world is wired and getting smaller
Remember many people in the world have never made a phone call
We live in a world where they say we communicate more
But the world stayed silent when the slave trade was making money
The world stayed silent when the Nazis started to kill trade unionists
People with disabilities, homosexuals, left-handed people and Jews
And now, in the age of the global village and mass communications
The world is staying silent as the Palestinians are being annihilated
Countries are isolated and starved of funds
If they do not allow North American
Burgers to be sold on their high streets
Or if they do not allow the World Bank
And the International Monetary Fund
To dominate and control their poor farmers
We live in a world where over a million
Children each year die as a result of diarrhea
In this world, millions of women spend
Several hours each day collecting water
Of the seven hundred and seventy-four
Million illiterate adults in the world
Two-thirds of them are women
More than sixty million girls in our world are
Forced into marriage before the age of eighteen
And each year in this world, three hundred and fifty-
Eight thousand women die from pregnancy or in childbirth
And in this world, more than one
Hundred million women are simply missing
Remember, these women are not even counted
We live in a world where each year multinational
Oil companies spill oil on the planet
Damaging the earth for years to come
In this world governments back the oil companies and not the planet
To get the oil in this world, young women
And men are sent to fight phony wars