USAID

I had the opportunity to listen to the stories of USAID workers and contractors who lost their livelihoods due to the current administration's questionable "cost-saving" budget cuts.

Be angry. Be worried. We must do better.

Lyrics

VERSE 1
Following my marching orders
Traveling to foreign soils
Lend a hand
Work the land
On demand
To be a part of a better plan

Holding hands, trying to take a stand
Birds and bees and planting trees,
Getting people to read while
Facing down some disease
You saw from your TV screen

PRE-CHORUS
64 years of opening doors
Lifting up voices, building bridges to a better world
You don’t know how much we gave
This ain’t some game that we play
We stand, we fight, we give,
So others can live
and we never walk away

CHORUS
We are the people of
We are the people of
USAID, USAID
We are the people of
We are the people of
USAID, USAID

VERSE 2
Now you’re gunning at me
Saying something about liberty
And how America First
Preserves our worth
By cutting ties to humanity

There are lives at stake
You made it to the pyre
Got smoke in your eyes while
Fanning the fire
You’re to blame when this goes up in flames

PRE-CHORUS
64 years of opening doors
Lifting up voices, building bridges to a better world
You don’t know how much we gave
This ain’t some game that we play
We stand, we fight, we give,
So others can live
and we never walk away