I?m not the one who made the world what it is today   I?m not the one who caused the problems started long ago   But now I deal with all the consequence that troubles our times   I carry on and never once have even questioned why      I?m innocent   But the weight of the world is on my shoulders   I?m innocent   But the battles started are far from over      We?re not the ones who leave the homeless in the streets at night   We?re not the ones who?ve kept minorities and women down   Still we grow and then the problems they become our own   We carry on without even realizing why      We?re innocent   But the weight of the world is on our shoulders   We?re innocent   But the battles left us are far from over      We?re not the ones whose pollution blackened our skies   And ruined our streams   We?re not the ones who made the nuclear bombs   That threaten our lives      We?re not the ones who let the children starve in faraway lands   We?re not the ones who made the streets unsafe to walk at night      And even if we try and not become so overwhelmed   And if we make some contribution to the plight we see   Still our descendants will inherit our mistakes of today   They?ll suffer just the same as we and never wonder why