The dream was not a vision   Or some premonition like we were told   It was no figment of the imagination   To prove that we could be bought or sold      The doctor of the diamond run   Could be revealed to the intelligent   But this is what I resent   Who cares for the ignorant, the intelligent      The cynics approach was mean   Who cares for anything   In this whole wide world   Except me      And this opinion must not confuse the issue   My appearance, my condition or state of delivery   I am stating the obvious   This is a protest      There must me a collusion   This is no Shakespearean speech   This is a statement   Made by one who can not practice what he preaches      The Statue of Liberty   Has engraved on its wall   'Give me your poor, give me your needy   Give me them all'      We need something like this   For this world to coexist   It would be so easy   To act so pretentious      To act as if it was hypocrisy   To act condescending   When in fact   It's the world we're mending      And that's why I can't relax   'Cause inside my coat it's a pistol that I pack   We must beware of a surprise nuclear attack   We must be ready to strike back      I'm not pretending   Our defenses need clearly mending   We must leave on standing      Forget the third world is ending   Is starving, is crying   Is desolate, is oh, so late      I would dearly love to return   Through a mirror in twenty years   And learn what the future   Has in store for us      And if I learned that we lost   And there was no hope   For those that fight      I would turn to drink   And drink is drugs   And drugs would help me sink      And like of boat, I float   Sail out to the sky   To the universe and back   Maybe to give it another try      I don't know why, why Jack   Just to confirm our Father   Just to learn, just to heal us