The People's Need

Verse 1

Dry clay

Beneath the heavy heat

Cracked earth waiting for the sky to break

Water

It never comes on time

Walking miles just to find a silver stream

Hunger

Hunger

Hunger

Chorus

Give the people what they need today

Give the people what they need today

Bread on the table

Fire in the hearth

Justice for the ones who have no voice

Give the people what they need today

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Root and branch

Rise up now

Verse 2

No shoes

Gravel biting at the heel

Babylon building walls of polished glass

Looking down

From a tower of gold

Greed is a sickness that will rot the bone

We climb

We struggle

We stand

Chorus

Give the people what they need today

Give the people what they need today

Bread on the table

Fire in the hearth

Justice for the ones who have no voice

Give the people what they need today

Post-Chorus

Oh oh

Root and branch

Rise up now

Bridge

The hammer falls

The sickle swings

The worker sings

The morning brings a heavy load

A dusty road

The heavy load

We carry on through the salt and sand

Verse 3

Iron

Cold against the wrist

Freedom is a word they try to hide

Speak it

Loud across the valley

Truth is a river that will never dry

One heart

One mind

One aim

Chorus

Give the people what they need today

Give the people what they need today

Bread on the table

Fire in the hearth

Justice for the ones who have no voice

Give the people what they need today

Outro

Need it today

Need it today

Hear the cry of the humble man

Walking on the promised land

Give it now

Give it now