It doesn't matter who you are 
 It doesn't matter what you do 
 It doesn't matter what you see 
 It only matters who you tell 
 As long as you don't try 
 To hide the feeling deep inside you 

 Then conscience tells you no 
 The pain will never show 
 Just for the hurt you used to know 
 And when your conscience tells you no 
 It tells you 

 If you can recognise the evil and the bad 
 Realise when someone's sad 
 And all that's needed is a hand 
 You can surely spare the time 
 As long as you don't try 
 And hide the feeling deep inside you 

 Then conscience tells you no 

 You know it's time to go 
 The pain I thought would never show 
 And when your conscience tells you no 
 It tells you no 

 Conscience tells you no 

 And you may govern all the people in this land 
 But what's it worth if you won't ever understand 
 Just what it's like to be a child who goes without? 
 No nice warm clothes or food to feed an empty mouth 

 And if you try to fool us with your mock concern 
 We'll make a voodoo doll and stick pins in your eyes 
 We'll build a wicker man and watch you burn inside