ethiopia

hot winds and hunger cries--ethiopia, flies in your babies' eyes--ethiopia, walking sticks on burning plains, betrayed by politics, abandoned by the rains, on and on--the human need, on and on--the human greed profanes, ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia, your top soil flies away--ethiopia, we pump ours full of poison spray--ethiopia, between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns, i hear the whine of chain saws, hacking rain forests down, on and on--insanities, on and on--short sighted greed abounds, ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia, little garden planet-oasis in space, some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand it, famine phantoms at the garden gates, ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia, every sunday on t.v.--ethiopia, you suffer with such dignity--ethiopia, a t.v. star with a p.r. smile, calls your baby "it" while strolling, through your tragic trials, on and on--stupidity, on and on--the basic needs are defiled, good air--good water--good earth, ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia, little garden planet--oasis in space, some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand the waste, ethiopia--ethiopia--ethiopia