We are back with NBC news — people are always surprised to learn the
Deadliest conflict since World War II,
The war in the democratic republic of the Congo.
This so far has claimed an estimated five and a half million people...
(The chaos and epidemic of... raging...
Anywhere from the highest number...
Middle East now where its been an especially deadly
Day in Gaza, at least 60 people were killed today...)
On the other side of the ocean
People, forgotten commotion
Forged underneath the blood red sky
You've seen this world in pictures
Fly covered, starving children
Left to believe that this is life
Wearing the trash they live in
Eating the scraps they're given
Still not enough to survive
Disease and malnutrition
False hope in the west's religion
This is enough to make God cry
From a distance, you can't feel it
You can choose just to close your eyes
When you're in it, you can taste it
You've got no choice but to give your life
(Another breaking story we're following out of Somalia where the U.S.
Has launched a missile strike and seriously hurt eight people...
Russia and Sri Lanka... an attack on...
(Sirens) against Chile's education system that they claim.)
Your home bombed, can you imagine? Sister raped, how can this happen?
And now there's talk of genocide
Societies all in a panic
A mother cries from images too graphic
And you thank God it's not your life
Go ahead and change the channel
Watch that show where weight loss is a battle
So sad, they had too many calories
Send a check, support a child
You've done your part, now you can smile!
Get back to your American dreaming
From a distance, you can't feel it
You can choose just to close your eyes. When you're in it,
You can taste it. You've got no choice but to give your life...
(Since the war began, 3,192 U.S. troops have been killed,
More than 24,000... covering the world tonight in Pakistan,
Suicide attacks claim more than... at least 50,
000 Iraqi civilians have died...
The cost has been at least 351 billion dollars,
And is expected to surpass half a trillion by the end of the year...
Things that our unit did, and things that,
That the military did in Iraq, um, as far as killing civilians, um,
Sometimes indiscriminately, in your heart,
You know that its not, its not right...)
Oh say, can you see?
A world without poverty
Where the little can eat?
And the orphan can dream?
Where the slave is set free
The oppressed find liberty
Unemployed are military
And the farmer he writes history, yeah! Yeah!
From the distance! (From the distance)
You cant feel it! (Yeah, yeah)
You can choose just to close your eyes (close your eyes)
When you're in it (when you're in it)
You can taste it (taste it)
You've got no choice but to give your life!