The Box and Carrie Carter

A box appeared on the doorstep of the Carter family estate
It sparkled in the sunlight as Carrie stepped inside the gate
No address was on the label and no courier could be found
Carrie shook it for a moment but it didn't make a sound

She set it on the table and started tearing at the seams
And as she lifted up the flaps she heard the voice from all her dreams
It said this is a test, and there's a button here inside
You'd get a million dollars, but someone somewhere will die

She fought her first impulses to reach inside the box
She got cool, calm and collected as she organized her thoughts
For fifteen cents a day, she'd heard, she could save a kid in Chad
For another fifteen more, she might even save his dad
She'd solved the trolley problem, kill the one and save the two
And she smiled at the justice she was now about to do
As a prize for all her courage, she'd keep some money on the side
Carrie straightened her composure and pushed the button down inside

Somewhere in south New Jersey, a cardiac arrest
Of an unemployed teenager they found lying in his bed
He'd not yet spent a dollar of his million in the bank
As a box appeared on the doorstep of someone else's place