Feel It (Purple Haze)

On the other side of the ocean
People forgotten in commotion
Forged underneath a blood red sky

You’ve seen this world in pictures
Fly covered, starving children
Left to believe that this is life

Wearing the trash they live in
Eating the scraps they’re given
Still not enough to survive

Diseased and malnutrition
False hope in the west’s religion
This is enough to make God cry

From a distance
You can’t feel it
You can choose
Just to close your eyes

When you’re in it
You can taste it
You got no choice
But to give your life

Your home bombed; can you imagine?
Sister raped; how can this happen?
And now there’s talk of genocide

Societies all in a panic
A mother cries from images too graphic
Don’t think you know what this is like
(And you thank God it’s not your life)

Go ahead and change the channel
Watch that show where weight loss is a battle
So sad they had too many calories

Send a check support a child
You’ve done your part now you can smile
Get back to your American Dreaming…

From a distance
You can’t feel it
You can choose
Just to close your eyes

When you’re in it
You can taste it
You’ve got no choice
Just to give your life

Oh say can you see
A world without poverty
Where the widow can eat
And the orphan can dream
Where the slave is set free
The oppressed find liberty
Unemployed are military
And the farmer rewrites history

From a distance
You can’t feel it
You can choose
Just to close your eyes

When you’re in it
You can taste it
You got no choice
But to give your life