DO YOU WANNA KNOW WHAT I WANT
NEW YORK VOICES
On Wall Street, it's been sheer pandemonium
On Main Street, children lost and alone again
Don't tell, I can't handle no more bad news
(I don't want to know)
Apartheid: people long for equality
We all hide in our separate societies
Don't tell me I can't take no, no more blues
(What are we gonna do?)
National Amnesia
'Cause I don't really wanna see
What's going on around us here
It's so clear that it don't apply to me
The truth is often frightening
But one thing should be understood:
To live in the clouds with your head in the sand is no good
They're starving, but they're so very far away
We'll survive, and besides, I've got bills to pay
Babies holding out their dirty hands
(I don't want to know)
Collusion: just make sure that the story's clear
Disillusion: give them just what they wanna hear
Confusion all across the world
(What are we gonna do?)
National Amnesia
'Cause I don't really wanna see
What's going on around us here
It's so clear that it don't apply to me
The truth is often frightening
But one thing should be understood:
To live in the clouds with your head in the sand is no good
Changing times, growing stranger by the year
That's okay, I hear what I wanna hear
Look around and try to take a point of view
Don't you know what goes down turns around and comes back to you?
(I don't want to know)
(What are we gonna do?)
National Amnesia
'Cause I don't really wanna see
What's going on around us here
It's so clear that it don't apply to me
The truth is often frightening
But one thing should be understood:
To live in the clouds with your head in the sand is no good
National Amnesia
Is upon us so what are we gonna do?
On Main Street, children lost and alone again
Don't tell, I can't handle no more bad news
(I don't want to know)
Apartheid: people long for equality
We all hide in our separate societies
Don't tell me I can't take no, no more blues
(What are we gonna do?)
National Amnesia
'Cause I don't really wanna see
What's going on around us here
It's so clear that it don't apply to me
The truth is often frightening
But one thing should be understood:
To live in the clouds with your head in the sand is no good
They're starving, but they're so very far away
We'll survive, and besides, I've got bills to pay
Babies holding out their dirty hands
(I don't want to know)
Collusion: just make sure that the story's clear
Disillusion: give them just what they wanna hear
Confusion all across the world
(What are we gonna do?)
National Amnesia
'Cause I don't really wanna see
What's going on around us here
It's so clear that it don't apply to me
The truth is often frightening
But one thing should be understood:
To live in the clouds with your head in the sand is no good
Changing times, growing stranger by the year
That's okay, I hear what I wanna hear
Look around and try to take a point of view
Don't you know what goes down turns around and comes back to you?
(I don't want to know)
(What are we gonna do?)
National Amnesia
'Cause I don't really wanna see
What's going on around us here
It's so clear that it don't apply to me
The truth is often frightening
But one thing should be understood:
To live in the clouds with your head in the sand is no good
National Amnesia
Is upon us so what are we gonna do?
