Wicked World

Little annie hid in the attic

from men with helmets and guns

Her life too soon done

Ain't genocide fun

Little malala got shot in the face

just for going to school

Little girls shouldn't be smart

That's the patriarchy rule

We walk a wicked world, we walk until we die

Walk a wicked world, little baby don't you cry

Little tsutomu took a business trip

to Hiroshima in 1945

Then he ran home to Nagasaki

Two A-bombs he did survive

Little abe fought a war and depression

He watched two sons fall dead

He freed four million slaves

then got shot in the head

We walk a wicked world, we walk until we die

Walk a wicked world, little baby don't you cry

Malcolm and martin fought to set people free

But freedom fighters don't grow old

Assassins have job security

Marty and mal, their bodies so cold

Little mohandas set his country free

preaching unity for all creeds

Then he was killed by a countryman

History's dark little deeds

Little vincent's beauty breaks your heart

Never got a nickel for his art

Lonely nights in an empty bed

He put that barrel to his head

Little oscar's quotes are immortal

He was jailed for loving men

Prison wrecked his life

He died without a friend

We walk a wicked world, we walk until we die

Walk a wicked world, little baby don't you cry

Little joan led the french army

and won the hearts of the land

She was killed for being too strong

They burned her for being like a man

Little robbie wanted to be roberta

and wear a pretty dress

Rednecks tied her to a truck

and made a bloody mess

Little johnny imagined peace and love

Jealous guy showed the empty sky above

But a broken child named mark

took a shot, a shot in the dark

Little sylvia's poems will burn you

Little ted said he'd stay but he lied

Sylvia crawled in the oven

while her little babies cried

We walk a wicked world, we walk until we die

Walk a wicked world, little baby don't you cry