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