Album 25/ 6. People in danger

People in Danger

De « Non assistance à peuple en danger »

Jean-Paul VERNERET

23/3/2024

Verse 1
In golden halls with doors shut tight
They make their calls, no fear, no fright
The people wait out in the rain
While they just count their growing gains

Wrapped-up lies and sugar-coated vows
Painted speeches, hollow now
They look away without a trace
As poverty keeps rising pace

Verse 2
They tailor laws to fit their schemes
To hide the rot behind the scenes
Justice crawls, it moves too slow
When money’s all that runs the show

Bridge
But history will mark the ones
Who were not there when truth called them
One day the streets will testify
To those who ran, who passed us by

Pre-Chorus
Failure accepted, cold and clear
By corrupted powers deaf to fear
A people left in danger’s flame
Ignored, betrayed, erased in shame

Chorus
Failure to aid a people in need
They watch us die, they never intervene
They turn their eyes, they feel no pain
While the streets cry out and fade in shame

Verse 3
Behind locked gates, behind closed doors
They rule our lives, but hear us no more
The people fall into the night
They split the crown, they share the might

Hospitals break, schools collapse
But their accounts stay safe, perhaps
Far from the mess, far from the cries
Hidden well from human eyes

Verse 4
Failure to act, a legal crime
Written in laws that crossed the line
They wash their hands, they claim it’s clean
Of our tomorrows unforeseen

Bridge
But history will mark the ones
Who were not there when truth called them
One day the streets will testify
To those who ran, who passed us by

Pre-Chorus
Failure accepted, cold and clear
By corrupted powers deaf to fear
A people left in danger’s flame
Ignored, betrayed, erased in shame

Chorus (final)
Failure to aid a people in need
They watch us die, they never intervene
They turn their eyes, they feel no pain
While the streets cry out and fade in shame

and fade in shame

fade in shame