NUMBERS GAME W/M: Bob Bennett Clean white paper And ink black as night Facts for dissection in fluorescent light Ivy League man and his American brain Puts it all down on paper But he feels no pain (But) the numbers have faces And the faces have names Living out and dying out This numbers game Numbers Game Cold hard statistics To be buried in the news About governments that slaughter All opposing views Moral retardation And a cultural lobotomy In the age of information We still cannot see (That) ... Somewhere a committee Quietly convenes To victimize the poor To build their war machines No aching in the conscience Just a stiffness in the joints They tell themselves They're dealing with Percentage points