Justice

What's been done in the name of Jesus?
 What's been done in the name of Buddha?
 What's been done in the name of Islam?
 What's been done in the name of man?
 What's been done in the name of liberation?
 And in the name of civilization?
 And in the name of race?
 And in the name of peace?
 Everybody
 Loves to see
 Justice done
 On somebody else
 Can you tell me how much bleeding
 It takes to fill a word with meaning?
 And how much, how much death
 It takes to give a slogan breath?
 And how much, how much, how much flame
 Gives light to a name
 For the hollow darkness
 In which nations dress?
 Everybody
 Loves to see
 Justice done
 On somebody else
 Everybody's seen the things they've seen
 We all have to live with what we've been
 When they say charity begins at home
 They're not just talking about a toilet and a telephone
 Got to search the silence of the soul's wild places
 For a voice that can cross the spaces
 These definitions that we love create --
 These names for heaven, hero, tribe and state
 Everybody
 Loves to see
 Justice done
 On somebody else