Nobody Gives

And nobody trusts or is willing to believe

Nobody listens and no one will understand

Why not negotiate and try to be civilized?
Everybody's guilty and everybody's innocent
Why not negotiate and try to be civilized?
And then Hitler decided he could take what was his
And nobody gives or is willing to concede
Nobody gives, 'cause nobody gives a damn any more

The workers told the unions who blamed it on the government
And listening to both sides
Yeah, I'm wondering, sitting here wondering
And everybody's guilty and everybody's innocent
So they all went to war and said, "Kill all the left-wing intellectuals
I'll tell you why, because nobody gives a damn
There were thousands of people struggling to survive
Then in 1926 they decided to be free, so they all went on strike and
And nobody gives, and nobody gives
I'm only sitting here, watching it all go on
And the fact of it is, nobody gives any more
There was hunger, unemployment and poverty
The politicians, unions, workers and the militants
We'll work it out if we try
We'll work it out if we try
Yet I'm wondering, sitting here wondering
Why? Why can't we work it out, why can't we sort it out?
The workers told the unions who blamed it on the government
I'll tell you why, because nobody gives a damn
And the fatherland wanted what the world wouldn't give
Annihilate the Jews and wipe out their race
Eliminate the weak because they're ineffectual"
Yeah, I'm wondering, sitting here wondering
There were scores of German military waiting in a line
In nineteen hundred and twenty-five
Why can't we sit down and work out a compromise?
Nobody listens and no one will understand
And the fact of it is nobody gives any more
Why can't we sit down and work out a compromise?
Yeah, why can't we talk it out, why can't we sort it out?
Nobody gives unless they receive
It's the same throughout all history

And listening to both sides
And everybody's guilty and everybody's innocent
And listening to both sides
But the fact of it is, nobody gives any more
And nobody gives, and nobody gives
The politicians blamed it on the strikers and the militants

The politicians blamed it on the strikers and the militants
Back in nineteen hundred and thirty-nine