Numbers Game

Clean white paper and ink black as night
Facts for dissection in fluorescent light
Ivy League man and his American brain
Puts it all down on paper, but he feels no pain

But the numbers have faces
And the faces have names
Living out and dying out
This numbers game
Numbers game
Numbers game

Cold hard statistics to be buried in the news
About governments that slaughter
All opposing views
Moral retardation and a cultural lobotomy
In the age of information, we still cannot see

That the numbers have faces
And the facеs have names
Living out and dying out
This numbers gamе
Numbers game
Numbers game

Somewhere a committee
Quietly convenes
To victimize the poor
To build their war machines
No aching in the conscience
Just a stiffness in the joints
They tell themselves
They're dealing with percentage points

But the numbers have faces
And the faces have names
Living out and dying out
This numbers game
Numbers game
Numbers game