Chorus :
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water

8 million citizens
Nobody’s really listening
Nobody’s really watching
8 million ignorant
80 thousand teachers
Way to many preachers
A thousand of leaders
But nobody leads us
3 million beggars
4 million pleasers
We are the world
But they don’t really need us

Ghetto got no funds, ghetto ain’t no fun
Ghetto kids got guns, ghetto got no one (x2)

No one, no one, no one

Chorus:
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water


Nobody’s listening to the sounds of the street
The clamor, the violence, the sirens, the heat
5 million scared 3 out of 5 million desperate
1 million hurt, thousands arrested
Times are changing, choirs are singing
(Lord have mercy)
Everybody’s praying
Forgive us father for all of our sins
The hatred, the greed, the ignorance

The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
There ain’t no sounds of silence
Tell me who’s gonna help us now

Nobody’s listening
8 million people running
Looking for shelter
But they got nowhere to go


Chorus:
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water

Is anybody listening?
Fire!
The town is burning down
But there’s no water
Is anybody listening?
The city’s on fire
The town is burning down
But there’s no water