world falls apart, falls apart there's a mean streak in the air it's a hearttlessness that's being taught you read and hear about it and the safety net that's being dropped there's an old man rotting in a wheelchair there's a single mom with two starving kids there's an abused girl who ran away and they havee all hit the skids our world falls apart in vancouver ain't no compassion, just p***s in the game we all fall apart on the eastside our world falls apart, falls apart you can sleep in a dumpster and eat from a garbage can they're used to be jobs now there's a food bank man i never met anybody who wanted nothin' i never met anybody who wanted to be a victim i never met anybody who wanted to be kicked but i sure know a lot of scapegoats our world falls apart in toronto ain't no compassion, just p***s in the game we all fall apart on the eastside our world falls apart, falls apart they call it justice it's a phony war that nobody wins you can't throw a bandaid at poverty's kin it's a phony war that nobody wins there's a bureaucart who's trying to save his a** there's a politician who wants to look tough there's a tv station that helps to spin the lies and dying people who got it too rough our world falls apart in montreal ain't no compassion, just p***s in the game in montreal we all fall apart on the eastside our world falls apart, falls apart