heartbreaking world

the saddest thing i've ever seen

was a starving face on my tv screen

the desperate face that i saw

had my disbelief hanging from my jaw

our harvest could be shared around

instead it's buried in the ground

the saddest thing i've ever seen

was a football fan dying for his team

the toughest thing i have ever known

was a soldier boy who never made it home

it's fiction live before our eyes

it leaves me cold and my heart cries

the greatest thing i've ever seen

was a newborn child looking up at me

the greatest sound i've ever heard

was a baby's cry in this wicked world

the innocence of that cry

leaves me cold and my heart cries

it's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be

it's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be

it's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be

and you're the one that breaks it for me