Where in the World Lyrics

Where in the world was the world
Where in the world was the world
Where in the world was the world
yeah where was the
world when an ounce of
prevention could have
saved a pound of cure?
Ready for your close-up
in the wake of the
disaster, callous
condencending claims the
network newscaster,
with crimes of
compassion
correspondents have
crossed the line,
hollywood elite and
ex-presidents unite, we
all wear a somber face
for the cameras tonight,
it's only apropos when the
bodies are piling high...

Whats in it for us? is
What the world bank
asks, when our countrys
highest export is our
lowest working class, you
know it's not like
common welfare is our
raison d'être, you know
we could have built those
buildings out of real
concrete, could have given
them clean water and
healthy food to eat, but
they looked over the
numbers, saw no profit to
be made...
where in the world was the world
(before the big one came),
Where in the world was the world
(for disease and acid rain),
Where in the world was the world
(for the poisoned and the poor),
yeah where was the
world when an ounce of
prevention could have
saved a pound of cure?

So we turn a blind eye
and the deafest of ears
to the most
impoverished country in
the western hemisphere
Throw some money at the
problem now, too little
and too late, well you
can't blame fault lines
for where they've fallen
but from a humanist
prospective man i find it
appalling, that
indifference and neglect
resigned these souls to
their sad fates...
Where was the world
before it opened under,
taking what was left of,
all that we neglected?
Where was the world
before it opened under
them? The nation of
comapssion only when
the world is watching, do
we take any action, then
we rally round the blood...