Cast Away
(Daniel Gray)

Children standing in the streets
Living without anything to eat
A city accepts defeat
Lives ruined and the leaders don’t skip a beat.

Families are torn apart
Swept away with broken hearts
A nation left in the dark
And people don’t know where to start

Chorus
What are we to say?
We were cast away
We are broken.
Lives changed in a day
We got cast away
Wounds left open.

Helicopters are flying by
So they can watch the people die
So that the nation may cry
But no one asks why

Why can’t they save me?
I know they can see?
A child loses his family
And parents are left on their roofs to grieve

Chorus
What are we to say?
We were cast away
We are broken.
Lives changed in a day
We got cast away
Wounds left open

They call us murderers and thieves
But they don’t realize we
We’re just trying to survive
Trying to save our own lives

People profit off our pain
We are left to rot again
As the rich get to come back home
The poor are told there’s no more room

Chorus
What are we to say?
We were cast away
We are broken.
Lives changed in a day
We got cast away
Wounds left open

Chorus
What are we to say?
We were cast away
We are broken.
Lives changed in a day
We got cast away
Wounds left open