Cher

Never even knew you

But I heard your note today

You talk about injustice

And how we look the other way

I knew full well your meaning

But my world just moves too fast

It's a shame about your future

It's a crime about your past

Was there no one who could save you

From the prison of each breath

Like Rapunzel in her tower

Isolation equals death

Was there no one who could rescue you

From the prison of your pain

Am I tougher or just lucky

Our fate didn't end the same

But my heart has run on empty

Since I heard the fuckin' news

We're a heartless, godless culture

We'd walk nowhere in your shoes

For me it's six-thirty in the morning

And my mood's as black as rain

I am thirty light years older

But I understand your pain

They all hate you 'cause you left them here

To struggle on their own

I'm just sorry you had no choice

'Til death chilled you to the bone

But my heart has run on empty

Since I heard the fuckin' news

We're a heartless, godless culture

We'd walk nowhere in your shoes

Well the good news, if there's any

Is you ever lived at all

But our country kills its heroes

We just raise them for the fall

Raise them for the fall

Oh we raise them for the fall

For the fall, oh we raise them for the fall

Raise them for the fall