Why are you here? What is this place?
I bid you welcome to the human race
Under certain pain, it always rains
From sea to shining sea
People in pain, poverty cries

Deception touches everybody's lives
White men may see this is life
The way that it ought to be
So I've been praying for the starving poor
And I keep pointing toward the open door
And I keep dreaming of a distant shore
Where men are free

We're living in the twentieth century
Sitting in the lap of luxury
Seeing only what you want to see
Living in the twentieth century

People are blind, don't comprehend
The angry lion that they called their friend
He seeks to devour, to seek and destroy the weak
We kill unknown children, then cry save the whales
Let the poor criminals out of jail

We think evolution of the species
Will help man to learn to turn the other cheek
So I've been praying for the starving poor
And I keep pointing toward the open door
And I keep dreaming of a distant shore
Where men are free
We're living in the twentieth century
Sitting in the lap of luxury
Seeing only what you want to see
Living in the twentieth century