Cold World

In a world full of bottled up pain, hurt and sorrow

Six people out of ten won't want to wake up tomorrow

When thirty thousand children won't live through tomorrow

Malnutritioned and starved, stomachs empty and hollow

While the rest of us take every meal, breath and step for granted

Forgettin' life was a gift in us a seed was planted

We've lost ourselves to this world, with it became enchanted

Our hearts were fertile soil but now they're rock harder than granite

On this populated planet one man will kill another man

To prove what he calls manhood but really it's insanity

Can it be that all this pain, hurt and calamity

Is the derivative of sin committed by Adam and Eve

It gets worse, year after year statistics prove

That over 900, 000 kids suffer abuse

And that's just in America, land of the free

Home of the brave where 34 percent of children can say

They have to face life without their biological father

So basketball and rap stars become their role models

And now they're supposed to choose right over wrong

When all their role model talks about is murder in his songs

It's a known fact, this world is oh so cold

You could search your whole life across the whole entire globe

Just remember the prophesy from ages ago

"What prophet a man to gain the world yet forfeit his soul"

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It's a cold cold world

Don't lose yourself in it

Ladies and gentlemen, let me just tell you

A little somethin' that I think you could benefit from

When I was young I would pretend I was dumb and not raise my hand

So I didn't come across as an intelligent one

'Cause back then it wasn't cool to be smart

If you cared about school somehow that made you a loser at heart

It was a lie spread by kids that were to lazy to study

I was a fool to believe and let 'em shape me like puddy

Ain't even funny, time starts flyin' so fast

Somebody kicked it into fifth gear and stepped on the gas

Old age will creep up like a snake in the grass

Before you know it, you're dead lyin' in a casket

Everything we lived for didn't mean a thing

'Cause this cold world is temporary life in vane

So I search for what's eternal submerge myself in the truth

Lord the only way to stay warm in this cold world is you

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Bridge:

Don't let this world grab a hold of you, take you in and mold you into somethin' you don't want to be

'Cause when it's all said and done then, you can't turn around and change a single thing

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