[ lyrics: Natalie Merchant/music: Dennis Drew ]

honor salute and speak

to the corner standing flag

do you remember how the days of school were

indivisible separate worlds

compare contrast

these dreams absurd

placid classroom faces

breathe in the features

of a demographics death map trilogy

children read them well

not to bury 3 of 4 sons

as the likes of chivalry

not to take 6 of 30 bills

to manufacture corpus christi

and so you think it can be so serene

history's most intolerable famine

has clutched our global tranquility

reaped the lives of children

maladies collaborate

with cyclic despair

infanticide clamors to 20 times more

in 4th and 5th Worlds

the poor have always been

beside us

amid us

death has always been

as million cease 15 million that's an annual reap


add divide multiply sum 41 thousand!