(Emma Watson: “This is the first campaign of its kind in the UN. We want to try and galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates of change.”)
Let me tell you what we dealing with
There be people that are villainous
And we all know that
Before you blow past
Give me a second to explain
I know that we already got a lot on our brains
But it's insane how much pain goes by with no names
And no statistics, to tell us we missed it
The cycle is vicious, fight the resistance
Rapping bout these women while you talking bout b**hes
It's a sickness infecting the mind
Cause we be closing our eyes
When overseas, they working for dimes
Never think about the tears they weep
When all our sh** so cheap
And we can get our sleep
It seems fine
Until you think about the little girls
Ten years old living in a world
Of poverty, no commodities
Where the drinking water got raw disease
Now sodomy is all they know
A broker came and the family sold
One little body, a little soul
Try to determine if they friend or foe
Cause the money comes in, but cash is cold
Survival circuit is the way to go
Or so it seems, just sew these seems
Shut up and only breathe when they tell you to breathe
[Chorus]
I know together we can save the world
If you could open up your eyes
I know together we can save the world
If you can see through all the lies
(x2)
We can all be an advocate
No excuses now
I'm not having it, light fuses now
Can you fathom it?
Can you imagine it?
Just think about if it was your little girl?
Or your wife, you own mom, have you forgotten?
This was going down in our own backyard
These companies trying to make haste and save space
Remember the little fire at Triangle Shirtwaist?
When you think about the way that these women are treated
They simply wanna be feeding their fam
Never thinking about the damage they in for
Breaking their backs to put cheap clothes in our stores
Even worse they on all fours
To beat it we'll be needing a war
So it's time to put your money where your mouth is
Tell the government you doubt this
Practice of capitalistic ignorance of basic human conditions
The people making these decisions maybe not the right ones
Try to find some, that are on the right page
Cause the more we think about the world stage
The closer we get to getting rid of world pain
Uh
We can all be an advocate
Come on
Yea
We can all be an advocate just because
[Chorus]
I know together we can save the world
If you could open up your eyes
I know together we can save the world
If you can see through all the lies
(x2)