The Belief

Is Philly really
The City of Brotherly love
Where every single case
Is treated with Latex gloves

Is it really brotherly
To shoot someone in the head
While the motherly are left to cry
Over the young dead

Settling matters with a kind word
Is just plain absurd
When a knife or gun
Can do the trick
Hell, even a lead pipe or maybe a  stick
People look to place the blame
"It's the media!"
Have you all no shame

If you don't teach little ones
What's right from wrong
Then we'll always have
To go through this
Stupid dance and song

I'm tired of seeing the news
Splatter with violence and drugs
Not to mention all of these gangsters and thugs
Who think it's really neat
To blow out someone's brains

Come on, what's there to beat
What's there left to gain?
A jail sentence for manslaughter
And possession of cocaine
What a good life lesson
For all the little souls
"Grow up in this society
And build bigger holes!"

No little Sally growing up
To be a doctor
For her uncle's already
Knocked up pretty badly
And all other people do
Is shake their heads sadly

"Aw, isn't it a pity?
Oh, isn't it a shame?"
When the hell will somebody wake up
And quit playing this wretched game?

What ever happened to compassion
And my favourite, decency
To the less unfortunate?
"Oh, it's just a bunch of
Juvenile delinquency!
They'll get not a penny from me!"

I'd like for just one week
Where people don't turn the other cheek
No, wait, I want a month,
Or maybe a year

"Hold on, girl, you stop right here.
That idea, it's out of reach!
Come now, be a peach and
Don't give any more of your speech.
Lose some weight and play the part
Be skinnier than a rail
Don't worry about looking frail
It's all the rage to look
Starved."

The President has spent lots of money
On the war on terrorism
I think it's about time for some heroism
If we took care of problems
When they first arrise
We wouldn't have to
Listen to this country cry

Helping other countries isn't a bad idea
But we need to save ourselves
Before we delve
Into others

Jolie's adopting kids from other countries
Actresses like her could help these
Children here who live in poverty

The poor are getting poorer
And the rich are getting richer
The healthy are okay
And the sick are getting sicker

I don't know which is quicker
The repercussions for actions
Or global warming
The scientists are swarming
Predicting the end of the world
How could we have hurled
This planet so helter skelter
As the yearly temperature begins to swelter

We are the victims of our own stupidity
We are the ones to blame
Look around, we're all the same
"Hypocrisy and Lies" are our middle names
It doesn't matter what nationality you are
Not your gender or your age
Or your sexual preference
But what does matter:
The belief to make a difference