Various Artists - Mad Mad World lyrics

A little bit more attitude? 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 d**h 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 d**h 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 ( sickly son's ) d**h Mentally abused, day in and day out Your stress point fills up, you're ready to shout But let me tell you a little something, that will not work Cause all you will find out are more problems that hurt Can't pay for all your rent so you try to hide And when that doesn't work you commit suicide And now who has the problems? Your little girl And do you know why? Cause it's a mad, mad world Let's take for example the Vietnam war Sent our boys to the jungle, never told em what for Some thought that they'd be heroes, for their destiny was bound A lot are still missing, never to be found Why are we fighting the war is what a lotta people said While parents prayed every night, their sons were dead Took mommy's little boy, left him in a foreign land Said, "You're fightin for your country, you better be a man" Better watch yourself, kid, and do the best you can Cause one wrong move can mean you're dead where you stand He finally gets home, another war is goin on Some are sayin that he's right while other say he's wrong When all he ever wanted was a warm embrace Of love, but instead we spit in his face And shoved him aside to become an outcast With a bitter hate and a pain for the past No one understood his hatred or confusion Said he was a fool and was livin in illusion Thinkin of society and how he must adjust Dreamin of his buddy who he saw blown in the dust Got a chip on his shoulder, it must weigh a ton Can't hold a job cause he's been k**in from 18 to 21