picture the other side make my break across the border late at night a promise of new life no one will know me one more nameless face another refugee from hunger's destiny do you know why i'm going there? why i'll cross illegally?
somebody tell me why i walk with danger on these foreign streets afraid of the police work hard for small pay live among the squalor and the hidden pain of indifference and hate do you know why i came here? why i crossed illegally? tell me why must i live in fear? why i'll die illegally?