Deep inside the border   Children are crying   Fighting for food   Holding their heads   Breaking their bread with a stone      All along the roadside   People are standing   Watching the sun   Shielding their eyes   Brushing the flies from their face      Tell me, what can you say?   Tell me, who do you blame?   Like a mirror you see yourself   These people each have a name      All around the township   Young men are dying   Of hunger and thirst   The well has run dry   The tears from her eye feeds her son      Now tell me, what can you say?   Tell me, who do you blame?   Like a mirror you see yourself   These people each have a name      You can say you're pulling back   We see the pictures everywhere   But what we don't see is   What's going on behind the closed doors   You don't seem to care      Do you expect me to believe you?   How can you really think?   But you can take your horse down to the water   Hold a gun at his head   And make him drink      No matter what you say   (No matter what you say)   It never gets any better   No matter what you do   (No matter what you do)   We never see any change      People living without rights   Without their dignity   But how loud does one man have to shout   To earn his right to be free?      You can keep your toy soldiers   To segregate the black and white   But when the dust settles   And the blood stops running   How do you sleep at night?      No matter what you say   (No matter what you say)   It never gets any better   No matter what you do   (No matter what you do)   We never see any change   No matter what you say   (No matter what you say)   It never gets any better   No matter what you do   (No matter what you do)   We never see any change      What makes you so high and mighty?   What makes you so qualified?   You can sit there and say   How many have their freedom?   But how many more died?      You decide to sit in judgement   Trying to play God yourself   Ooh but someday soon the buck is gonna stop   Stop with you and no one else      No matter what you say   (No matter what you say)   It never gets any better   No matter what you do   (No matter what you do)   We never see any change   No matter what you say   (No matter what you say)   It never gets any better   No matter what you do   (No matter what you do)   We never see any change