There’s a kid picking through a garbage can
While I sit down to breakfast
There’s tired man in an unemployment line
While I head off to work
There’s an invalid struggling to use his limbs
While I climb on my bicycle
And there’s a world out there trying
While I’m watching my TV
There’s a girl, she’s been living in a cardboard box
While I’m warm and sheltered
There’s a child lying broken on a kitchen floor
While I have been embraced
There’s a boy dodging bullets in a civil war
While I take peace for granted
There’s a world out there crying
While I’m watching my TV
I live in a world where I can choose to stay
Will I venture out, will I look and really see
That life is happening all around me?
I’ve been living in a fairytale
Some are living in a tragedy
What can I do?
Will I do anything?
There’s a lonely one pining in an empty room
While I’m loved and wanted
There’s sickly soul looking for a lasting cure
While I’m whole and strong
There’s a muddled mind searching for the simple truth
While I’m clear and rested
There’s a world out there dying
While I’m watching my TV
I live in a world that I must choose to leave
I must venture out, I must look and really see
That life is happening all around me
Lord, I wanna be a living spring
Welling up to eternity
Where everyone can come and drink
There’s a world out there
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