10,000 Maniacs National Education Week Lyrics

Honor, salute and speak
To the corner standing flag
Do you remember how the days of school were
Indivisible separate worlds
Compare contrast
These dreams were absurd
Placid classroom faces
Breathe in the features
Of a demographics death map trilogy
Children read them well
Not to bury 3 of 4 sons
As the likes of chivalry
And not to take 6 of 30 bills
To manufacture Corpus Christi
So you think it can be so serene
And so you think it can be so, so
History's most intolerable famine
Has clutched our global tranquility
Reaped the lives of children
Maladies collaborate
With cyclic despair
Infanticide clamors to 20 times more
In 4th and 5th Worlds
The poor have always been beside us
Amid us death has always been
As million cease, as million cease
15 million that's an annual reap
Add divide multiply the sum
It's forty-one thousand!