Is anybody listening?
 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 But there's no water
 Is anybody listening?

 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 But there's no water

 8 million citizens
 Nobody's really listening
 Nobody's really watching
 8 million ignorant
 8000 teachers we do many preachers
 thousand of leaders but nobody leads us
 2 million beggars
 4 million pleasers
 We are the world, but they don't believe us
 Get to got no funds, get to ain't no fun
 Get to kid's got guns, 'cause they got no one
 Get to got no funds, get to ain't no fun
 Get to kid's got guns, 'cause they got no one
 No one, no one, no one

 Is anybody listening?
 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 But there's no water
 Is anybody listening?
 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 But there's no water (twice)

 Nobody's listening to the sounds of the street
 The clam, the violence, the silence, the heat
 5 million set free out of 5 million desperate
 1 million hurt, thousands arrested
 The times are changing, why is this singing?
 Everybody's praying
 Forgive us Father for all of our sins
 The hatred, the weak, the ignorance

 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 There ain't no sound of silence
 Tell me who's gonna help us now?
 Nobody's listening
 8 million people rioting
 Looking for shelter
 But they got nowhere to go

 Is anybody listening?
 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 But there's no water
 Is anybody listening?
 The city's on fire
 The town is burning down
 But there's no water