Teenage years are full of complications You go to school to get an education Never realizin that there's a limitation If you don't get a job or a fresh occupation With your parents there's no communication You feel a lotta fear, a lotta frustration Knowin your only destination Is to be a nobody in this population So you set ahead with your i-can't-do's Leavin your troubles behind and all your hard time blues Because becomin an adult can leave your mind in a twirl When you think you know it all in a mad, mad world
Look at ethiopia, and what do you see? I said you can't tell the children from the elderly And when you look in their eyes, all you see is peace Cause from the agony they want to be released You see, they're fightin for their lives with every breath Against famine, disease and the claws of death Now this was once a mighty nation But then came the plague that they call starvation Now the stomach feels the pain, shocks the brain All because one day it decided to rain And the land is dry while the mothers cry And the babies that are born are born to die See the flies on their faces, dust in the air The attitude we take is "i don't care" But i guess it hurts me more than any other That's not a kid, that's my little brother Death is walkin the nation, takin boys and girls And all i say to myself is it's a mad, mad world
It's a mad, mad world, whether poor or rich Because you're livin with the problems that you're tryin to ditch I mean your daughter is a addict, your husband has left You have to pay for the bills of your ( ? ) death Mentally abused, day in and day out Your stress point fills up, you're ready to s