Have you been to the desert? Have you walked with the dead?   There's a hundred thousand children being killed for their bread   And the figures don't lie they speak of human disease   But we do what we want and we think what we please      Have you lived the experience? Have you witnessed the plague?   People making babies sometimes just to escape   In this land of competition the compassion is gone   Yet we ignore the needy and we keep pushing on, we keep pushing on      This is just a punk rock song   Written for the people who can see something's wrong   Like ants in a colony we do our share   But there's so many other fuckin' insects out there   And this is just a punk rock song      Have you visited the Quagmire? Have you swam in the shit?   The party conventions and the real politic   The faces always different, the rhetoric the same   But we swallow it all, and we see nothing change, nothing has changed      This is just a punk rock song   Written for the people who can see something's wrong   Like workers in a factory we do our share   But there's so many other fuckin' robots out there   And this is just a punk rock song      10 million dollars on a losing campaign   20 million starving and writhing in pain   Big strong people unwilling to give   Small in vision and perspective      One in five kids below the poverty line   One population runnin' out of time, runnin' out of time      This is just a punk rock song   Written for the people who can see something's wrong   Like ants in a colony we do our share   But there's so many other fuckin' insects out there   And this is just a punk rock song      Figures don't lie they speak of human disease   But we do what we want and we think what we please   One in five kids below the poverty line   One population runnin' out of time, runnin' out of time      This is just a punk rock song   This is just a punk rock song   This is just a punk rock song