Song written by Kim Wilde and Tony Swain. The seventh track of the album Love Moves. Like the song Stone, this is a song about environmental waste.
Kim has explained that it is the realistic counterpart of the more idealistic song World in Perfect Harmony.
Credits
Keyboards & programming: Ricky Wilde, Tony Swain
Produced by Ricky Wilde
Engineered by Jimmy Jazz
Assisted by Stephen Streater
Mixed by Ricky Wilde and Jimmy Jazz
Kim about ‘Who’s to blame’
‘Who’s to blame?’ (is) about environmental problems. Just like ‘Stone’: I’m really conscious of the fact that things are being destroyed before children have even had the chance to get to know them. It’s very possible that by the time I have children of my own, elephants have disappeared. That’s the reason for writing that song. (1)
Interview source
(1) Kim Wilde plays Kylie during her vacuuming: ‘All my songs are pages from my diary’, Hitkrant (Netherlands), 12 May 1990
Lyrics
Just like in a dream
I’m trying to scream
But no-one can hear me when I call
I feel paralysed
Unable to cry
While watching the world around me fall
Heard it on the news today
What are we doing to our world
There’s got to be a better way
And we’ve got to choose it
And while we destroy
Our children will grow
Not missing the things they’ll never know
A crime against them
Against you and me
A crime against all humanity
Heard it on the news today
What are we doing to our world
There’s got to be a better way
And we’ve got to choose it
Don’t you know that a day will come
To everyone
When they’ll ask us to explain
Are we going to say that we weren’t to blame
Who else could there be
Just like in a dream
I’m trying to scream
I feel paralysed
Unable to cry
What are we doing
Heard it on the news today
What are we doing to our world
There’s got to be a better way
Or we’re gonna lose it
Who’s to blame?