Until you know the dead
It's a fiction, it's a hoax
It's easy for you to laugh, to make light
Hey, take a joke
Until you know the dead
It's some thing you won't believe
Words of warning you half read
Roll your eyes, until they fall right off the edge
Until you know the dead
You'll be fearless, you will feign
All immunities you'll claim
Touching thoughts, but the nerve you've struck is bare
Until you know the dead
You'll go on with status quo
Make that money, let your greed
Make decisions ignore the need to take care
Until you know the dead
It's numbers on the map
Figures, adding up, exasperating
It's pronounced "exECutive"
Until you know the dead
We're together all alone
And all we'll share is the unknown
None to spare, but all the toxic we exhale
Until you know the dead
Find some way to send relief
Isolate and give reprieve
Fund necessities both human and humane
Until you know the dead
Understand there's no exception
By true grace become compassioned
Live or die, by our wisdom and - with love
Until you know the dead
You false man, you selfish sham
It's not a thing, that your careless hands
Could ever be washed clean of