Can you tell me now what we’re going to fight for?
World leaders are calling us to war
Knowing that two wrongs don’t make a right?
Why should I obey when they tell me to fight?
Arming up the world with their guns and tanks
Power for the pentagon and money for the banks
Trying to make an enemy of you and me
An enemy mentality
I’m a world citizen…
They keep on asking who but they don’t ask why
They could find the answers but they never even try
Control the world but they say we’re free
They got control mentality
Let us speak the truth out loud and clear
It’s not the refugees that we should fear
Laying the blame at our neighbours’ door
What is all this fighting for?
I am a world citizen – no matter your religion
I am a world citizen – or the colour of your skin
I am a world citizen – world wide community
I am a world citizen
Open up your eyes and your mind to history
Know your place in the unfolding of humanity
Behind the chaos of the world there is inspiration
Bearing the flags of justice and of liberation
We have a world that has come to us and is forever
Will it be life and love or the never never
If we divide the world and the human race
We’ll never know the beauty of this place
Operation infinite injustice
Trying to divide the world into them and us
Were gonna make our voice heard through the protest and the pen
‘Cause we’re never gonna find the truth out on CNN
Gonna build a movement in our homes and on the streets
The people’s movement is the one they won’t defeat
Take up the slogans of the movement for change
Everybody’s eventually gonna have to take the stage
And if the truth is gonna be heard
We’re gonna go out and spread the word
I am a world citizen – no matter your religion
I am a world citizen – or the colour of your skin
We are world citizens – world wide community
We are world citizens – no difference between you and me
No wonder there’s migration
And so many refugees
An island for the rich
In a sea of poverty
There’s no money for education
Or money for the poor
But hey presto, like magic
There’s plenty for a war
And no wonder there is terror,
Death and conflagration
People ground down by injustice
And humiliation
You complain there’s evil doers
Becoming human bombs
Why you are surprised
When you’re selling them the arms?
So when you sip your cognac
On this you just might ponder
When all you do is kill and kill
And all you do is plunder
And when you put your fences up
And put human rights aside
You make us all ashamed
By your cheating and your lies
There’s plenty of room in the world
We have to share this space
It’s 4 billion years old
No one can own this place
The storm clouds are a brewin’
We’re in for nasty weather
We fix things up as one
Or we all go down together
But just like the best laid
Plans of mice and men
We must change track, we gotta go back
To the drawing board again.
“I am a world citizen”