When All is Said and Done

Rock song from my upcoming album, Mount Greed
When all is said and done, friends
What have we really done?
What have we to come home to
This world of children we do not know
When all is said and done friends
What have we really done?
When all is said and done, friends
What have we become?
What do we come home to?
Our children watch us with greedy eyes
What do we come home to?
Our progeny walk among people they despise
Now when all is said and done, friends
The poor and weak, are never lost
We may take their freedoms, break their trust
But they’ll find a way, to finally crush us
When all is said and done, friends
An immigrant woman is richer than us
When all is said and done, friends
She comes home to a child she trusts
How can we come home, here
Forever living a dictator’s life of fear
What can we come home to?
All we treasured most we have forgot
How can we come home here?
And live a life like that girl?
What do we come home to?
Not the palace she now does enjoy
Now, when all is said and done, friends
Is this all life is, all it can be?
When all is said and done, friends
What demons torture us in our sleep?
When all is said and done, friends
Will we wash our hands and weep?
When all is said and done, friends
Who will show our children right from wrong
How can we, come home here
To a land we’ve ravaged, beyond repair
How can we, come home here
To a people who live, without empathy or care
Yes we can change, mend our ways
Arrogance here has no place, mend our ways
We’ll build allies, all our friends
We can start today, mend our ways