It's a protest song - maybe

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Jim wrote a poem, then he wrote a song, then I got hold of it and messed it up good style!!

Victims

They lie down there under the ground
wrapped in the dust and can't be found
they are silent, scream without a sound
the victims of an outrage

Hands search to find a human trace
as thick dust masks across their face
these children of the human race
search for victims of an outrage

The living cry the dead lie still
and the families wait at home until
there is no hope, but they are hoping still
for the victims of an outrage

And we watch the video replay
for the hundred thousandth time today
we don't see all the lives simply snatched away
all victims of an outrage


Go tell them in Korea
go tell them in Phnom Pen
go tell them in Hiroshima
in Cuba and Saigon
go tell them in Nagasaki
Tripoli Belgrade and Palestine
that America’s been hit
America’s been hit
America’s been hit this time