The world it goes around and round
right side up and upside down
It’s back and forth it’s lost and found
on its axis spinning

The sage explained so long ago
that we shall reap just as we sow
And the winds of fortune only blow
on those who do the winning

And the rest do what they must
body and soul to keep
Why’s the price of bread and milk so dear
and flesh and blood’s so cheap

The world’s become a stranger place
It’s putting on a meaner face
Much more swagger far less grace
seems to be in season

Confrontations on the rise
population polarized
An urge to be uncivilized
rancour over reason

When you struggle every day
desperation creeps
For the price of bread and milk so dear
and flesh and blood’s so cheap

There’s medicine shelter food and mirth
enough for everyone on earth
But if it’s more than your toil is worth
it might as well be trash

Angry voices loudly bray
insisting we pay our own way
Not as they do but as they say
while counting up the cash

And the cry of a hungry child
should make an ogre weep
Why’s the price of bread and milk so dear
and flesh and blood’s so cheap

It’s not a matter of being kind
coins in kettles at Christmas time
It won’t be solved with nickels and dimes
and what’s to come I dread
The one percent can wine and dine
served by the other ninety-nine
Who stand there at the back of the line
for a slice of daily bread

How does one get condemned
to the bottom of the heap
Where the price of bread and milk so dear
and flesh and blood’s so cheap

Yes the world goes around and round
no happy-go-lucky merry go round
It’s oh so simple yet so profound
to see how far we’ve strayed
You can put the question to the stars
seek solutions in the bars
Or just bear down and show the scars
the piper must be paid

And the answer’s oh so clear
cause the question’s not so deep
Why’s the price of bread and milk so dear
and flesh and blood’s so cheap