How many children need to cry? Before we give a damn How many children need to die? Before we give a damn Before we give a damn It's not what they think, it's not they know The kids are in trouble just letting you know It's hurting to see the eyes look at me The tears run dry and I'm losing belief I tell 'em stay strong, made them a song So they can sleep and forget what is wrong When they wake up, they hope that I'm gone I'll be right here, where is your mom? Losing your fam', the struggle is real The world is so bad and we're living in fear Children are hungry, the photos not clear The life that we're living, forget what I feel Taking advantage, people are dying It's harder to manage, to live in this world and I'm hating this planet Asking myself, "Why are you savage, why are you savage?" She says she's hungry She hasn't had a thing to eat in days (oh, no) And then the tears fell, it broke my heart in pieces How many children need to cry? (How many children need to cry?) Before we give a damn How many children need to die? (How many children need to die?) Before we give a damn Before we give a damn I look at the youth as the future Tryna make a change in the hip-hop culture Look at the sculpture, the stories I'm feeling The kids that are bleeding, this world I believe in Is letting me down, that's what it is when I'm holding it down Nothing is right and I'm lost in a town Bullets are flying, I'm hearing the sound Hearing the sounds, crack at the noise The guns and the missiles they using like toys Fed up of this and I'm making a choice Made a decision and I'm making a point Open those eyes, look what you see I think we can change and I'm here to believe All these lives dead and deceived, before I pass it back and get the deceived She says she's hungry She hasn't had a thing to eat in days (oh, no) And then the tears fell, it broke my heart in pieces How many children need to cry? (How many children need to cry?) Before we give a damn How many children need to die? (How many children need to die?) Before we give a damn Before we give a damn Don't you hear the pain inside the voice of a little boy Before we give a damn? Can't you see the fear inside the heart of a little boy? She says she's hungry She hasn't had a thing to eat in days (oh, no) And then the tears fell, it broke my heart in pieces How many children need to cry? (How many children need to cry?) Before we give a damn How many children need to die? (How many children need to die?) Before we give a damn Before we give a damn