Union Songs
Good People
A Song by Steve Harvey©Steve Harvey 2007
I see good people being used every day
I see good people being used every day.
I see good people being used
and their kind, true hearts abused.
I see good people being used every day.I see good people send their children off to war.
I see good people send their children off to war.
They send them off to fight
for what they think is right.
I see good people send their children off to war.I see cold people betray good people every day.
I see cold people betray good people every day.
They take those honest dreams
and crush them with their schemes.
I see cold people betray good people every day.Now, when the schemers tell you what they're fighting for.
Well, when the schemers tell you what they're fighting for.
You just look 'em in the eye
and tell them you know they lie.
Oh, when those schemers lie 'bout what they're fighting for.I see good people waking up every day.
I see good people waking up every day.
I see them open up their eyes
and, much to their surprise,
they see the truth behind those lies
and surely realise
that they've been used day by day,
day by day.I see good people being used every day
I see good people being used every day.
I see good people being used
and their kind, true hearts abused.
I see good people being used every day.
Notes
Many thanks to Steve Harvey for permission to add this song to the Union Songs collection.
Find more of Steve Harvey's work in this collection
Steve writes:
'This is just a song that came from my realisation that I had to recognise that people who support the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan, who may have sons or daughters there, do so in many cases because they really believe it is the right thing to do. So this song attempts to recognise that while saying "I think you're being used"'
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