You remember the song called give a damn

Some group sang last summer

About people livin' with rats and things

The paper couldn't cover

Well it wasn't very popular

Nobody wanted to hear

And that's a shame 'cause a pretty tune

Was just what we needed that year

The first thing nobody wanted to hear

Was damn that was on the label

I mean it's okay if you just read it there

But you didn't bring it up at the table

So the radio didn't play the song

Except on the FM stations

Until some looter worked his way

Down to the united nations

Then word got around that there's this song

All about the riots and stuff

So they played give a damn on the noon report

Just once but that was enough

Some cameraman with groovy footage

Of glowing embers and charred remains

Put the pictures with the song on the six o'clock news

Following the baseball game

Then everybody said it was a real fine song

Why didn't we hear it before

Let's all blame the radio stations

For bringing on the domestic war

Oh sure we'd seen some articles

We knew some people needed help

But social workers take care of that

I mean why give a damn yourself

Well the reason that you didn't

Reason that you won't

Is you think you got a lot to lose

And the other fella don't

Oh you give a damn well so does he

You think the rest of us are just fakin'

I mean what do you need that you got to give

Less than what you're takin'

Where could you go

Who could you see

What could you do the best

The book is in your left hand

Your right hand knows the address

Address your questions address your money

Address your telephone number

But above all else please address yourself

To give a damn this summer