Natalie Merchant - National Education Week lyrics

[Verse:] Honor, salute and speak to the corner standing flag Do you remember how the days of school were? Indivisible separate worlds Compare contrast these dreams absurd Placid cla**room faces breathe in The features of a demographic d**h map trilogy Children read them well Not to bury 3 of 4 sons as the likes of chivalry Not to take 6 of 30 bills to manufacture corpus christi And so you think it can be so serene? History's most intolerable famine has clutched our global tranquility Reaped the lives of children Cyclic despair Infanticide clamors to 20 times more in 4th and 5th worlds The poor have always been beside And with us d**h has always been As millions cease[x2] 15 million that's an annual reap Add divide multiply sum 41 thousand!