The Call

There was a man in the street just the other day

With a tear and a hand stretched out looking my way

Said 'your money, your sympathy, I really don't need

What I want is you to see how my brothers bleed'

Doctor, oh doctor, my world needs attention

Got sickness and poverty just too bad to mention

Got people too blind to see what's going by

My country's sold it's wealth and now we can't figure out why

But the rest of the world wants it back now

They got no weapons so they just bug us for the crack now

You gonna to stand by and let this go on indefinitely?

Let our leaders articulate our indifference with impunity

Are you a man?

Or just a number?

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Help, help, we need you

Your world needs you

Needs you to know

Needs you to sit up

Needs you to take action and say

No, this will not happen

No, we will not let this happen

No, it shall not be one law for the black, one law for the white

It shall not be one law for the man, one law for the woman

It shall not be one law for the heterosexual, one law for the homosexual

One law for the rich country, one law for the poor country

It shall be one law only

It shall be equality, equality of opportunity

Equality of healthcare, equality of power

Equality of civil rights

Are you a woman?

Or just a number?

Make the call

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Yeah

Good people, oh will we let these children die

So we get less mouths to feed

Or shall we succumb them and minister to them in their hour of need

AIDS is the terror our children must fear

AIDS is the name we shudder just to hear

AIDS is the word at the back of our minds

AIDS is like no other, the threat of all mankind

AIDS is a call to tear the boundaries down

The issue we must clearly face now

Equality, equality of opportunity

Equality of healthcare, equality of power

Equality of civil rights

Equality of all humanity

Are you a man?

This is the call