It doesn't matter who you are It doesn't matter what you do It doesn't matter what you see It only matters who you tell As long as you don't try To hide the feeling deep inside you Then conscience tells you no The pain will never show Just for the hurt you used to know And when your conscience tells you no It tells you If you can recognise the evil and the bad Realise when someone's sad And all that's needed is a hand You can surely spare the time As long as you don't try And hide the feeling deep inside you Then conscience tells you no You know it's time to go The pain I thought would never show And when your conscience tells you no It tells you no Conscience tells you no And you may govern all the people in this land But what's it worth if you won't ever understand Just what it's like to be a child who goes without? No nice warm clothes or food to feed an empty mouth And if you try to fool us with your mock concern We'll make a voodoo doll and stick pins in your eyes We'll build a wicker man and watch you burn inside