The Need Of The People – Michel Montecrossa

Come gather ‘round people, let’s sing our song,
honest to god in the lingo of all.
Let’s sing it loud so that the government knows
and the big boys and bosses of the big show:
“You have to meet the need of the people!”

Working People speak through their working
and fighting for a peace loving world,
a world that’s okay, that’s free and honest,
speaks out loud, lets you vote like you want:
A world that meets the need of the people.

The young will tell you what’s to be fixed
when disaster looms and truth is departing.
Things happen fast and sides are changing.
Freedom is hard work, needs shakin’ of hands:
Freedom is meeting the need of the people.

Starvation wages make people slaves
to hunger and anger and goin’ wrong.
Governments are meant to work for the people
And not to cheat and dehumanize.:
They have to meet the need of the people.

Civil war is the end of the story
of failed education, corruption, suppression
and is spilling the blood
of the young and the hopeful:
Of those who could have met the need of the people.

Come gather ‘round people, let’s sing our song,
honest to god in the lingo of all.
Let’s sing it loud and proud and strong
so that everyone everywhere knows:
Together we will meet the need of the people!