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