Do They Think We Really Care?

The whole world is going down, every minute, as we see
While we're sitting in our rooms, in front of our TVs.
Earthquakes, plane crashes, floods that wash lives away,
Quick imprisonments, murders, other crimes, we don't pay
Any bit of attention, so we sleep during the day.
All those pieces of news they keep aiming at us
Don't give any new thrills, though they make such a fuss.
Every tiny thing happens and they put it on the air,
But above everything, do they think we really care?

Presidents taking turns to speak in front of us,
Yet we're late for the job, we must be on the bus,
Our ears filled with microscopic headsets,
We can hear the sounds, all's as good as it gets.
There's another war we have to know about,
While we're heading for the shop or we're going just out.
In the restaurant, we're served a brand new tragedy,
That we consume along with our food, foolishly.
In the wild, when we take a few breaths of fresh air,
We breathe in newer facts: do they think we really care?

Packing our lunches in yesterday's newspaper,
We read something about a violent rapper,
Who shot six, then run away from the police station,
Now, he's loose, possibly living in his brand spanking mansion.
We don't have any money, and we think that someday
We'll be able to buy some new houses, we may
Try too hard to obtain all we need, our hands bare,
Our eyes sore, we're sooo tired, do you think we really care?

We don't care, we don't care, we don't care, we don't care.