How could you beat your woman till you see tears? Got your children living in fear, mm How you gonna wash the blood from your hands? Selling debt to fiends Barely fifteens So you can fulfill all your dreams How you gonna wash the blood from your hands? You claim you're doing God's work Greet the family with a smile When all the while You been raping that child You a priest but you still can't Wash the blood from your hands The self hate they create in your hair Got you pickin' up their weapons And leaving your brothers there How you gonna wash the blood from your hands?
I wonder what you gon' do When he comes for you Where you gon' run Once he calls for you Where you gonna hide The day he sends for you And he questions you I wonder what you gonna say When that day comes When judgement day comes
I'm talking bout the sins you commit Killing innocent kids so you can fill your pockets Tell me how you gonna wash the blood from your hands? Now take a look at these project buildings They got us living in It's like we're raised in prison cos of the colour of our skin Now how you gonna wash the blood from your hands? The pharmaceutical industry need to get paid They're sitting on a cure Watching new born babies die of AIDS Tell me how you gonna wash the blood from your hands? How could you keep exploiting 3rd world children Using them as underpaid slaves So you can make your millions How you gonna wash the blood from your hands?
I wonder what you gon' do When he comes for you Where you gon' run Once he calls for you Where you gonna hide The day he sends for you And he questions you I wonder what you gonna say When that day comes When judgement day comes
We sit and watch why people get hurt Stand to say nothing when they do the devil's work Walk straight by leave them crying in the dirt What kind of people does that make me or you? And we could have all the good intent But we sitting in silence We committing greed and violence Then we got blood on our hands too
I wonder what you gon' do When he comes for you Where you gon' run Once he calls for you Where you gonna hide The day he sends for you And he questions you I wonder what you gonna say When that day comes When judgement day comes
I wonder what you gon' do When he comes for you Where you gon' run Once he calls for you Where you gonna hide The day he sends for you And he questions you I wonder what you gonna say When that day comes When judgement day comes