My shoes are old and my clothes are old Nowhere to go, nowhere to go
Why is the world so cold When all I want to do is hide and stay alive
It's so hard to live around the light The demand for change, the way I see it
I've forgotten as a human being I can't even breathe

Even that light's not mine What's happening inside of us
Oh change, come down the drain Come on, come on, yeah
What's happening to our people today Drugs in our streets
The youth are running crazy rapidly Oh humanity

What's happening before our eyes How we set up for the noises
What happened to humanity is Oh whatever sense is this
We've got to do something To change, to change humanity
Today, today I say

It's crazy Oh how it's so crazy
The violence, violence, violence like it's mad
Oh, oh, oh Oh my God, oh man
All I ask for is an open door For humanity to be safe again

All the things we were told are not what we see
It's not what we see with our eyes
What's through our eyes
All I want to do, all I want to do, all I want to do, all I want to do

Is stay alive
Is stay alive, yeah, yeah, yeah Basic things in life, yeah
Basic things in life, yeah