Hard Music

[Verse]
Ask me who are the cool ones
They're fighting for peace
They're suffering and smiling at the hands of the beast
If we can't see we share the blame
Brutality is king
Its people lie bleeding in the sun of Africa
Its children are starving in front of the camera
Liberty perishes smothered by fascist juntas
Prisoners vanish to a place that reeks of silence
Innocence is tortured by colonels and generals
Fed and armed and nurtured by the lands of the free

[Chorus]
This is hard music (music) for this hard world
Keep on trying keep on trying keep on trying

[Verse]
Do you want a job and a life with some meaning
You'd better be white and right and light
And no sense of feeling
Can I tempt you to a game called exploitation
First you find a poor man and take away his nation
Children need a future in a world where they belong
Teachers not bombers will help to make them strong
Beirut and Belfast are deafened by the bullets
Of killers who all have god on their side

[Chorus]
This is hard music (music) for this hard world

[Bridge]
Take me away from all this trouble
And leave in it's place a heap of rubble
Is this what we're fighting for?

[Chorus]
This is hard music (music) for this hard world
You've got hard music (music) for this hard world
Let me out