What Are We Gonna Do?

What are we gonna do?
Said the hungry child to a father with empty hands
What are we gonna do?
When the smoke clears
And reveals no promise land
What are we gonna do?
I don't know, it's a long long way to go.
What are we gonna do?

Splashed? across the table like a pile of fallen leaves
She stares down at unpaid bills then up at him
And unaware the journey that his father made for him
But when the man asked for his papers
You replied with empty hands

And from the graves we dig for dreams, not realize
Do you hear these muffled cries?
What are we gonna do?

What are we gonna do?
And who is going to answer for our sins

Could it be you? Or me
When they left our fingerprints
What are we gonna do?
I don't know, it's a long, long way to go
What are we gonna do?

Somewhere in the spaces of a 9 round magazine
The cowards pull the triggers at the seam
And the apple of our eyes cannot survive these sharpened teeth
Like Abraham and Isaac
We will sacrifice and like it
And when the sun sets
We will wait here patiently
We fall sleep but we don't dream

What are we gonna do?
Said the lion to the lamb
As they drew lines in the sand
Said the trees to the man
When there were no seeds left to plant

Said the widow to the grave
As her roses fade away
Said the hills to the sky
As they kissed our last goodbye

Said the worker to the chief
Acts like a boss, more like a thief
Said the ocean to the shore
As the tides grow more and more

Said the soldier to the priest
What is it that I should believe?
Said the desert to the rain
When will you visit us again?

How do we explain
To children dancing in the rain
What are we gonna do?