Waiting for the Snow - Karan Casey

Feed us with your left hand

Starve us with your right

I will lie in a cold tent

While you are warm tonight

While we watch the same sunset

And the same stars fall

We have nothing

You have it all

As the march moves on

We’ve nowhere left to turn

Fighting to survive

While waiting for the snow

We curse the dusty mountains

The aching desert storm

Hear our children crying

Hungry in the morn

Their feast lies not in this world

But in another place

So stand up and listen

Take the smile from your face

Our fate lies in your hands

While your world looks on

Politicians squirm about

Wondering what’s gone wrong

Millions taking to the roads

It’s happened yet again

I say now is the time

Come on now is the time

Now is the time to heal the pain