White, red, Black and pale Conquest, war, Famine, and death Reaching in cutting out Deep inside Beyond layers of diversions, a faceless grin A stream of vengeance Tainted brown Dripping down from my wounds of shame It takes a village to raise a child But where does this leave us, In a world of children, The fate of man? Give me Karma Upon a bed of ashes Give me pain And laughter To temper indifference For my people are foolish they don't know me They are blinded children they don't know me They have no understanding from the gallows we sigh I don't know him For my people are foolish they do not know me They are stupid children and they have no understanding They are skilled in doing evil but do not know how to do good I looked on the earth and it was waste and void And to the heavens they had no light I looked on the mountains and they were quaking All the hills moved to and fro I looked and there was no one at all And all the birds of the air had fled I looked and the fruitful land was a desert And all the cities were laid in ruins Before the Lord Before his fierce anger In this best of all possible worlds