Released: January 1, 1981
Songwriter: 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
Driven to tears
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 innocents die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
Cause this is what we’ve seen
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Wo, oh oh
Wo, oh oh
Wo, oh oh
Wo, oh oh
[Solo]
[Verse 3]
Protest is futile
Nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world?
Who knows what to do?
[Chorus] [x2]
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
Driven to tears
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 innocents die
All we can offer them is a page in a some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
Cause this is what we’ve seen
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
Wo, oh oh
Wo, oh oh
Wo, oh oh
Wo, oh oh
[Solo]
[Verse 3]
Protest is futile
Nothing seems to get through
What's to become of our world?
Who knows what to do?
[Chorus] [x2]
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