[Verse 1]

How could you beat your woman till you see tears?

Got your children living in fear

How you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

Selling debt to fiends

Barely fifteens

So you can have another option and rip off your dreams

Tell me...

How you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

You claim you're doing God's work

Greet the family with a smile

When all the while

You been raping that child

You're a priest but you still can't

Wash the blood from your hands

The self-hate they create in your hair

Got you pickin' up their weapons

And leaving your brothers there

Tell me...

How you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

[Hook]

I wonder what you gon' do

When he comes for you

Where you gonna run

Once he calls for you

Where you gonna hide

The day he sends for you

And he questions you

I wonder what you gonna say

When that day comes

When judgement day comes

[Verse 2]

I'm talking 'bout the sins you commit

Giving orders that permit

Killing innocent kids so you can fill your pockets

Tell me, how you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

Now take a look at these project buildings

They got us living in

It's like we're raised in prison cos of the colour of our skin

Now how you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

The pharmaceutical industry need to get paid

They're sitting on a cure

Watching newborn babies die of AIDS

Tell me, how you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

How could you keep exploiting third world children

Using them as underpaid slaves

So you can make your millions

How you gonna wash the blood from your hands?

[Hook]

[Verse 3]

We sit and watch while people get hurt

Stand to say nothing while they do the devil's work

Walk straight by leave them crying in the dirt

What kind of people does that make me n you?

And we could have all the good intent

But we sittin' in silence

And we committin' greed and violence

Then we got blood on our hands, too

When that judgement day comes and there's nowhere to run

Tell me, what is your plans?

’Cause all the wrong you've done

You know that you can't wash the blood from your hands

Before that judgement day comes

I pray that you learn to understand

And till my judgement day I pray

"Oh, Father, help me wash this blood from my hands"

[Hook] x2