a better world

Wednesday, August 18th, 2004
6:31 pm A Better Place

there's lives on the side of the road
and blood pouring into the streets
there's people without homes
and nothing on the table to eat
our world is falling apart
nothing but murder and lies
there's poisons in our households
and its killing our blue skies

(chorus)if we all pitched in a little
and if we all gave in a little  Read More »

Suicide is all around us. There's the quick, obvious kind of suicide, with a gun or a rope or pills or a razor. There's also the slow sort of suicide, with cigarettes or alcohol or heroin or promiscuous, unprotected sex that leads to HIV and other nasty STDs. One can't help but watch people destroy themselves and wonder, "How much of this is my fault?"  Read More »