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In a world full of bottled up pain, hurt and sorrow |
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Six people out of ten won't want to wake up tomorrow |
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When thirty thousand children won't live through tomorrow |
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Malnutritioned and starved, stomachs empty and hollow |
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While the rest of us take every meal, breath and step for granted |
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Forgettin' life was a gift in us a seed was planted |
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We've lost ourselves to this world, with it became enchanted |
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Our hearts were fertile soil but now they're rock harder than granite |
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On this populated planet one man will kill another man |
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To prove what he calls manhood but really it's insanity |
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Can it be that all this pain, hurt and calamity |
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Is the derivative of sin committed by Adam and Eve |
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It gets worse, year after year statistics prove |
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That over 900, 000 kids suffer abuse |
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And that's just in America, land of the free |
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Home of the brave where 34 percent of children can say |
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They have to face life without their biological father |
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So basketball and rap stars become their role models |
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And now they're supposed to choose right over wrong |
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When all their role model talks about is murder in his songs |
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It's a known fact, this world is oh so cold |
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You could search your whole life across the whole entire globe |
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Just remember the prophesy from ages ago |
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"What prophet a man to gain the world yet forfeit his soul" |
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It's a cold cold world |
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Don't lose yourself in it |
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Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you |
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A little somethin' that I think you could benefit from |
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When I was young I would pretend I was dumb and not raise my hand |
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So I didn't come across as an intelligent one |
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'Cause back then it wasn't cool to be smart |
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If you cared about school somehow that made you a loser at heart |
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It was a lie spread by kids that were to lazy to study |
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I was a fool to believe and let 'em shape me like puddy |
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Ain't even funny, time starts flyin' so fast |
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Somebody kicked it into fifth gear and stepped on the gas |
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Old age will creep up like a snake in the grass |
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Before you know it, you're dead lyin' in a casket |
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Everything we lived for didn't mean a thing |
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'Cause this cold world is temporary life in vane |
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So I search for what's eternal submerge myself in the truth |
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Lord the only way to stay warm in this cold world is you |
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Don't let this world grab a hold of you, take you in and mold you into somethin' you don't want to be |
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'Cause when it's all said and done then, you can't turn around and change a single thing |
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