The Will To Live lyrics

ashes to ashes
and dust to dust
that's what has become
of our love and trust

love has no direction
cause love has no aim
love can leave you
as fast as she came

meeting is such sweet sorrow
cause someday we may have to part
hush don't you make a sound
you're gonna let me down

good things come
to those who wait
but good things are gone
from those who are late

all that i am
is all i can give

You so easily amuse
Like a pantomime
Such a silent crime
You so easily abuse
Lack of confindence
It's your best offense
You so easily confuse
You can't deny it
Still you try to hide it

Faded
So faded
Like a memory gone
There's no recollection

Faded
So faded
Like a forgotten dream
Further than it seems

You so hastily defy
When you think you need it
You find a way to bleed it
You so hastily deny

Homeless Child

Nowhere here
to call my home
no one near
to call my own
all that's left
is for me to roam
somebody please
help me hang on

Homeless child
homeless child
what is left
for the homeless child

There is no night
and there is no day
it is all
one shade of gray
some will pass
and some will stay
is this the end
or just one more day

Homeless child
homeless child
what is left

Battered and torn
still I can see the light
Tattered and worn
but I must kneel to fight

Friend of mine
what can't you spare
I know some times
it gets cold in there

When my legs no longer carry
and the warm wind chills my bones
I reach for Mother Mary
and I shall not walk alone

Hope is alive
while we're apart
only tears
speak from my heart
break the chains
that hold us down
and we shall be

How I am strong
Is to know what makes me weak
How I am found
Is to know just whom I seek
The gift of a blessing
The burden of a sin
Oh, turn, turn to him

I wanna be ready
I wanna be ready
I wanna be ready
Ready to put on my long, white robe

Nailed across
From hand to hand
For the sin
Of every woman and man
And all upon his earth
Is all within his plan
And I know
This shall be my journey home

Tell me do you really know
your brother man
cause a heart speaks louder
than a colour can
and why would you even
shake a man's hand
if you're not going
to help him stand

Jah work
Jah work
Jah work is never done

Every man's actions
belong to him
if prepared for thereafter
to reach his destiny
some people believe
and some people know
some people deceive
and some people show

Jah work
Jah work

Can you tell me why
you're so uptight
out of your head
and ain't talkin right

Can you tell me why
your mind ain't straight
out of touch
and can't relate

Mama's trippin'
daddy's slippin'

Everybody's talkin' 'bout
keepin' it together
but I see people splittin'
when there's inclement weather

What you want is what I want
so why can't we agree
if I could be inside of you
maybe I could see why

I could have treated you better
But you couldn't have treated me worse
But it's he who laughs last
It is he who cries first

Sometimes I feel I know strangers
better than I know my friends
Why must a beginning
be the means to an end?

The stones from my enemies
these wounds will mend
But I cannot survive
the roses from my friends

When the last word has been spoken

I met a girl whose heart
was on the right hand side
and upon the left
an angel did reside
they told her mother
that she never would survive
but she kept the rhythm
and is still alive

We must all have
the will to live
you got to have
the will to live

Then I met a man
who had to walk with his hands
born into a world
he couldn't stand
blessed with life
but cursed as a man
still he walks taller

mama why does he treat me so cold
So cold, so cold
Why do I feel so old
So old, so old
How long has he treated me unkind
Unkind, unkind
Oh, have I always been so blind
So blind, so blind

Im a widow, I am a widow
Of a living man, of a living man, of a living man

Why cant the times stay the same
Stay the same, stay the same
Now I am begging him to change
Please change, please change