What can we do to change our ways?

How long can we keep quiet and refuse to see
The people around us in such misery
We buy and we buy and we walk right by
The people less fortunate than you and I

Oh what can we do to change our ways
It isn't so easy to forget or erase
A life time of living without concern or care:
Today is the day we should become more aware..

There's people beside you who live in hurt
You may not even know it or think they deserve
Some consideration or kindness or some help today
So what will you do and what will you say..?

Oh what can we do to change our ways
It isn't so easy to forget or erase
A life time of living without concern or care:
Today is the day we should become more aware.

That person who's begging over there, you see
Is pretending and plotting so carefully..?
But what if we're wrong and he's not so free
And is working for someone like you and me..?

Oh what can we do to change our ways
It isn't so easy to forget or erase
A life time of living without concern or care
Today is the day we should become more aware.

That person we whisper about: that lazy ole bum,
Who walks with a bottle or lives in a slum
Is  not a reflection but a  tragedy
Where have we failed in this image we see...?

Oh what can we do to change our ways
It isn't so easy to forget or erase
A life time of living without concern or care
Today is the day we should become more aware.

Too often we judge them the people we hate
We have reasons for keeping ourselves irate
With losers and sponges and  unemployed
We condemn them with excuses our anger's deployed

Oh what can we do to change our ways
It isn't so easy to forget or erase
A life time of living without concern or care
Today is the day we should become more aware.

If only we heard it one day in our heart
The message that Jesus proclaimed from the start
Loving and caring and walking our way
He asked us to love and to do it each day