The 24-Carat Black
Synopsis One: In the Ghetto/God Save the World
[Part I]
[Instrumental]
[Part II: In The Ghetto]
In the ghetto
Flung-out daughters are willing
Strung out junkies are killing
Children are playing here and there
Rats are laying every, ev-er-y-where
It's all displaying and conveying decay, despair
In the ghetto
Untaught babies are wailing, who will feed them?
Distraught mothers are failing, who will need them?
Apathy and poverty makes the shame
Welfare, medicare takes the blame
In the ghetto the rent is too high
Huh, the poor tenet cry
The landlords scorn pity
Nowhere more, the inner city
Good news for the upper masses, the cost of living is cheaper
More blues for the lower classes, they lost
Their pain from giving grows deeper in the ghetto
In the ghetto
Our so-called-leader said they speak for the people
But poor people have no voice
Certainly not by their choice
Hey, what do our so-called-leader know
About the night that are cold? No heat anywhere
The feeble, the old, what biting burdens they bear
From birth to death, poverty is the poor man's bread
Who breed such shame? Who takes the claim? Who is to blame?
Good news for the upper masses, the cost of living is cheaper
More blues for the lower classes, they lost
Their pain from giving grows deeper in the ghetto
[Part III: God Save The World]
(God save the world
God save the world
God save the world
God save the world
God save the world
God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) From this hunger for power
(God save the world) From self-destruction's hour
(God save the world) From nuclear holocaust
(God save the world) No one wins when all is lost
(God save the world) From those who would [?]
(God save the world) From those who would pillage and plunder
(God save the world) [?]
(God save the world) More ways to kill mankind
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) Help blinded masses see (Amen!)
(God save the world) Freedom and equality
(God save the world) Give us strength from day to day
(God save the world) To walk the righteous way
(God save the world) From [?]
(God save the world) From [?]
(God save the world) From all the hurt and sad
(God save the world) From all the [?]
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) God save the world
(God save the world) God, God, God, God save the world
(God save the world) God, God, God, God, save the world
(God save the world) God...