Mad World

 

It’s a mad world we’re livin’ in

A mad, mad world, ya know.

Too much distraction

Strained interaction,

And resentment continues to grow.

 

Hitler, Stalin, and Hussain…

Monsters in disguise

Ruled with hate,

Until the date

Of their celebrated demise.

 

A little boy forgotten

“A mistake”, his father said.

Wouldn’t stop cryin‘,

So now he lay dyin’

From a bullet to his head.

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A young Somolian mother

Nurses her tiny son

On the only breast

The rebels left;

After having all their fun.

 

The man with the money makes the rules

And claims God’s on his side.

Our young men fight

To prove he’s right.

Four-thousand now have died.

 

A little girl sleeps soundly

Her parents unaware

That outside peekin’

A man lay seekin’

To snatch her out of there.

 

When the Hollywood Blvd. lights come on,

The ladies go out walking.

Husbands buy

What their wives deny,

‘Cause whores don’t do much talking.

 

 

 

Children made to take up arms,

Not knowing why they fight.

They’re only boys

With grown up toys

Who won’t live through the night.

 

Preachers shout on Sunday

Knowing all too well

They ain’t livin’ right,

And it just might

Be their screams heard in Hell.

 

Desks become a hiding place

For children crouched in fear,

While their classmate runs

Around with guns.

“Quiet, he’s coming near!”

 

Our country sends them money,

And we watch their people die

Deaths of starvation,

While the leaders of the nation

Live fat in palaces on high.

 

It’s a mad world we’re livin’ in

A mad, mad world, ya know.

Too much distraction,

Strained interaction,

And resentment continues to grow.