one of her babies is rotting in the sun   and the other one was found drowned in the ocean   her mom and dad are in their van crushed and bloated   and her husband was thrown from his fishing boat   so please give me a break from all your complaining   about who was mean to you and how your stepdad is a pain   - i care, i swear, but i just can't take it, not today   all i can think about are tsunamis and earthquakes      everything she's ever known is gone, gone, gone   everyone she's ever loved is gone, gone, gone   the only reason she's alive is   she grabbed a palm frond and held on   and held on      you can call me crazy but it seems to me we could   have sent more than we spend in one day killing iraqis   to help the hundreds of thousands   who are injured and diseased   and hungry and homeless and without families   i'm appalled by our government's initial reaction   and the fact that they asked for a verbal retraction   from the folks who called them stingy   they're just covering their assets   well, they thank their greedy god for wiping out the lower class      we'd have 12/26 tattooed across our foreheads   if something this atrocious happened on our coast instead   well, a tragedy's a tragedy no matter where it happens   close your eyes really tight and imagine   that everything you've ever known is gone   and everything you've ever loved is gone   and the only reason you're alive is you were lucky   and you were strong enough to hold on   while you watched your family die   while you watched your family die   while you watched your family die   while you watched your family die