Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh
40 tons of M.I.C. gas
Dense clouds of pesticide
Mass culpable homicide
Safety systems obsolete
Rude awakening to western greed
Life is cheap, expendable
Holocaust of the dependable

Half a million, gas-exposed
Wide awake to the overdose
Darkest night, took their breath
Eight-thousand died a toxic death
The toll is rising, evermore
Twenty-thousand since eighty-four
Merchants of death, trying to hide
The blood on their hands from this genocide

Those who survived sent off with a fee
Back to a "life" of misery
Lungs full of fluid, residual eye disease
Never knowing when life will cease