These are dangerous times   that we're living in   and there are dangerous signs   that we're giving in to fear   late one night, I'm lying here   I thought I heard a sound      Tell the mothers and the babes   tell the old, tell the sick they will be safe   get the young males tell them to be brave   I was so concerned with saving live   I never saw you pull the knife.      High on the mountains   across seven seas   All of the people   why me, why me?   Do you feel so frustrated   Frightened and feared   answer my question   Why me, why me, why me   why me, why me, why me?      You're such an angry young man   with all your grievances   people don't understand,   they just can't understand   what you must do to stay alive.      So you try to justify   all the violence and hate, before your eyes.   Through the ages better men than you have tried   to give what is not theirs to give   to take the land where others live.      High on the mountains   across seven seas   all of the people why me, why me?   Do you feel so frustrated   frightened and feared   answer my question   why here, why now,   why here, why now, why here,   why now, why me?      Oh, for now you have the power   the guns and all the swords   but nature has a nasty habit   of balancing her flaws.      Now you may try to break my body   lock me up and throw away the key   but you'll never break my spirit   I'm free