I am the one in ten a number on a list,

I am the one in ten even though I don't exist

nobody knows me but I'm always there

a statistic a reminder of a world that doesn't care.



My arms enfold the dole queue malnutrition dulls my hair

my eyes are black and lifeless with an underprevileged stare

I'm a beggar on the corner can no one spare a dime

I'm the child that never learns to read

'cus no one's spared the time.



Refrain



I'm the murderer the victim I'm licensed with a gun

I'm a sad and bruised old lady in an alley in the slums

I'm a middle aged business man with a chronic heart disease

I'm another teenage suicide in a street that has no trees.



Refrain



I'm a starving third-world mother I'm a refugee without a home

I'm a housewife hooked on valium I'm a pensioner alone

I'm a cancer ridden spectre that's covering the earth

I'm another hungry baby I'm an accident of birth