Crying For the World...

Crying For the World

Slipping silly into the street
Fresh from a four-star five-course fete
Six splits of wine between us
Cathedral looms, the steps are steep
But we’re laughing, light on our feet
Climbing, stuff a sawbuck in the poor-box

I got twenty dollars down on a conscience
And a Christmas Fund
Some adopted family is gonna have
… some fun
Excuse me, Happy Holidays,
Not Christmas
Not much warm and fuzzy
Goin' on between us

We never get the full names, it's designed
To protect all those involved
We contact them, they’ll ask for more
And we have set the resource ceiling on their cause
I bought a hammer once for Habitat
How can they compete with that?
Ah the moolah that I gave
The lives I've gone no miles to save

But my tears are all you need
For I love this life I lead
So, I’m crying for the world
I’m crying for the world
I’m crying for the world
And doing nothing
... nothing

Never known no worries, no
I've never been alone
Credit card and for emergencies,
And bail is one call home
Never thought on privilege
How it fell to me and why
When your grown-up work is faking it
And built on the Big Lie
You take that deal and take and take some more
And driving home, break down and cry

So my tears are all you need
For I love this life I lead
And I’m crying for the world
I’m crying for the world
I’m crying for the world
And doing nothing
... nothing

Oh, when your daytime job is faking it
And build on the Big Lie
You take that deal and take and take some more
And driving home break down and cry

And my tears are all you need
For I love this life I lead
And I’m crying for the world
I’m crying for the world
I’m crying for the world
And doing nothing
... nothing 

NPR and BBC, your stories they all bother me
NPR and BBC, your stories they all bother me'

And I'm crying
For the world
Crying...
For the world 

Never thought on privilege
How it fell to me and why
Never thought on privilege
How it fell to me and why

Slipping silly into the street
Fresh from a four-star five-course fete
Six splits of wine between us