Who could blame you for falling upon your feet
Wouldn't anybody else make the best of it?
Now you may be filled up with the finest thoughts
But someday they'll be the real live test of it
When you make that pencil cross
Your private gain is our public loss
Conscience, that's a heavy cost
That you're not prepared to pay, no way, no way
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
In a beautiful world that will never change
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
You will never know hunger or the sting of change
Hannah grows up to be what she wants to be
Making forty-seven K at the worst of times
James's reaching the heights of his sweet success
On an undiscovered mountain of business crime
And when you make that pencil cross
Your private gain is our public loss
And conscience, that's a heavy cost
That you're not prepared to pay, no way, no way
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
In a beautiful world that will never change
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
You will never know hunger or the sting of change
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
In a beautiful world that will never change
Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James
Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James
Brother James
And as the numbers fly overhead
You're sitting there like the living dead
And as the numbers fly overhead
You're sitting there like the living dead
And when you make that pencil cross
Your private gain is our public loss
And conscience, that's a heavy cost
That you're not prepared to pay, no way, no way
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
In a beautiful world that will never change now
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
You will never know hunger or the sting of change
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
In a beautiful world, why don't you try to change, change them now
Hannah and James, Hannah and James
In a beautiful world that will never change
Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James
Hard-hearted Hannah, brother James, brother James
Brother James
Hard-hearted Hannah