Released: July 1, 1986
Songwriter: Sting
Producer: Kim Turner Sting
[Verse 1]
How can you say that you're not responsible?
What does it have to do with me?
What is my reaction, what should it be?
Confronted by this latest atrocity
[Chorus]
Driven to tears
[Verse 2]
Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
Because this is what we've seen
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do
[Chorus]
How can you say that you're not responsible?
What does it have to do with me?
What is my reaction, what should it be?
Confronted by this latest atrocity
[Chorus]
Driven to tears
[Verse 2]
Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existence is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
Because this is what we've seen
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Protest is futile, nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world, who knows what to do
[Chorus]
more tracks from the album
Bring on the Night
- Love Is the Seventh Wave
- Tea in the Sahara
- Down So Long
- Another Day
- I Burn for You
- One World (Not Three)
- Driven to Tears
- Low Life
- When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around
- Bring on the Night
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Consider Me Gone
- We Work the Black Seam
- Children’s Crusade
- The Dream of the Blue Turtles/Demolition Man
From the albums
- Bring on the Night (1986)
- Hope for Haiti Now (2010)
Sting popular songs
- Shape of My Heart
- Englishman in New York
- Desert Rose
- Fields of Gold
- Fragile
- Russians
- It’s Probably Me
- If I Ever Lose My Faith in You
- Brand New Day
- Seven Days
- Mad About You
- A Thousand Years
- Soul Cake
- I Can’t Stop Thinking About You
- If You Love Somebody Set Them Free
- All This Time
- When We Dance
- If It’s Love
- The Last Ship
- Fortress Around Your Heart
- Children’s Crusade
- Moon Over Bourbon Street
- Synchronicity I
- Giacomo’s Blues