Saw the news in the afternoon   'Nother war will be coming soon   Man ripped up like a piece of paper   With his wife looking on and no one to help her    Hammill says we're still in the dark ages   With people's greed and hating rages   The world don't learn so the world will burn   The world will burn cause the world won't learn      Looks like I'm gonna build my shelter again   Such a messed up world we're living in today   Thank God for the rain, maybe it'll wash that scum away      Streets ain't safe in this town no more   A girl get hassled at her front door   Violence rising out of hand   Can't bring the kids up in this land      Getting mugged on your way home   By kids with masks and knifes they own   How long will it be till they got a gun   And hoot you down just like a dog for fun      Looks like I'm gonna build my shelter again   Such a messed up world we're living in today   Thank God for the rain, maybe it'll wash that scum away      Thought my sensitivity would be smashed, by some inner city wisdom trash   Instead my own phobia centricity is growing out of every bit of me   I like my home I don't want to move but maybe I'll be forced soon   To lock the doors and board up the windows      Looks like I'm gonna build my shelter again   Such a messed up world we're living in today   Thank God for the rain, maybe it'll wash that scum away      People die and nature replaces   You see the lives in all the faces   Of so-called lunatics and basket cases   Who'd hang themselves with their shoe laces      They have no place in the rat race   As a society which just misplaces   Puts more importance on money not faces   And have its sleeves filled with all the aces      Looks like I'm gonna build my shelter again   Such a messed up world we're living in today   Thank God for the rain, maybe it'll wash that scum away