Stark_Spare

<p>Stark, spare, and barely there<br/>The ghetto moves beyond the knowledge or even consideration of the upper-middle riddles that just don&#x27;t care<br/><br/>Stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?<br/>They&#x27;re stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?<br/><br/>Slumming ain&#x27;t the answer to the cancer, poverty, that so many of the poor slipped into degree<br/>Jesus walked among them, pausing to refresh, finally giving to the point of blood to share their emptiness<br/>Mark and Teresa, Godspeed to you<br/>Suffering in love when you don&#x27;t have too<br/>And, God, have mercy on the rest of us too, &#x27;cause when we shut out the poor, Lord, we&#x27;re shutting out you<br/><br/>Stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?<br/>They&#x27;re stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?<br/>And Jesus walked among them, pausing to refresh, finally giving to the point of blood to share their emptiness<br/>And we must walk among them, for we can do no less than what the saviour taught us by his life and by his death<br/>For the truth is on our tables, the crumbs on our floors<br/>We must give while we are able<br/>Both Lazarus and our judge are at the door<br/><br/>Stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?<br/>I&#x27;m talking &#x27;bout stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?<br/>They&#x27;re stark, spare<br/>Who cares?<br/>Stark, spare<br/>And tell me, who cares?