A mother drowns her children,
in the back seat of her car.
A father kills his son,
by shaking him too hard.
Three pre-teen children,
beat a baby senseless in its crib.
Do we lock them up,
or should we forgive.
Headlines in the paper,
We read them every day.
Our world is full of violence,
anger and decay.
Despair, despair,
do we really care.
Despair, despair,
life�s not always fair.
Teenagers are having babies,
at an alarming rate,
Their education suffers,
is welfare their only fate.
Our schools are filled with violence,
students are packing guns.
Others kill their brain cells,
doing illegal drugs.
Chorus
Despair, despair,
do we really care.
Despair, despair,
life�s not always fair.
Congress, is cutting social programs,
targeting the poor.
They�re tired of degradation,
They can�t take it any more.
Living in public housing,
Is not a rewarding life.
Its complicated by hardship,
adversity, and strife.
The times they are a changing,
its getting harder day by day.
There�s too many homeless people,
with no safe place to stay.
Chorus
Despair, despair,
do we really care.
Despair, despair,
life�s not always fair.
A plane goes down in Florida,
the media, it swarms.
The press flocks to Miami,
is it because the climates warm.
They weren�t very sympathetic,
to the passengers fate.
The headlines screamed their dead,
probably gaiter bait.
Despair, despair,
do we really care.
Despair, despair,
life�s not always fair.