Lyrics On Every Corner

Death
Has been your lover
He has brought you
The edges of your life
And now you are looking over
And all we can say
Is it’s going to be all right
I am looking forward
To looking back
On these days
When on every corner
Someone holds a sign
That says I’m homeless
I’m hungry and
I have AIDS

How will they define
Our generation
In the coming decades
Who will tell the story
And what will they say
Were thought of as criminals
While the guilty sat on high
Deciding their fate
Ticking off statistics
In their spare time
Tell me which is the crime

May you never test positive
Pregnancy… HIV
May you never be the receptacle
Of blame
May you never be the scapegoat
For a whole world
Full of shame
May you never be fighting
For your life
And at the same time
Have to fight for your name

There are too few
Who open both eyes
We sit back in our easy chairs
And try to sympathize
Whether from the point
Of a needle or
The edge of our beds
We too, like many others
Could be dead
Our actions will define us
Before a single definition
Can be said
So what if God is testing us
What if that’s true
What are you going to do
What is the answer to you