For What It's Worth

Turn it up This is my favorite part Watch how the tiger catches the deer in the dark Its teeth were sharpened by the Darwinian arc Of a million years And hyenas laugh from their secret hiding place As the tiger's teeth find a purpose in its prey And the helpless deer sings the song of life on Earth But it's still grateful to the band-for what it's worth Light it up The jungle set aflame Once a month, we keep it thin to keep it tame Cleaning up after our ancestor's mistakes For a hundred years And the hunter sets his sights and takes his aim As the tiger flees from the fire man has made And a shot rings out as the great cat hits the Earth But it'd still praise the blood-stained land-for what it's worth Look it up Or look across the street Flies in their faces and nothing on their feet These little ones will be lucky if they breathe For a couple years And the women laugh from their cages in Bombay As the children clap from Calcutta-bound freight trains And their song is lost to the chaos of the Earth But they still lift up holy hands-for what it's worth And the people sing for the day their gods have made As the bishop bows in a foreign land to pray "Let the Lord rain down His judgment on the Earth But I still love the heart of man-for what it's worth"