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Welcome to the Cruel World
by Ben Harper
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Welcome to the Cruel World Lyrics
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- Well you can need me
- well I want you to
- and you can feed me
- how I like that too
- but don't you lead me
- I won't follow you
- listen here
- I don't fear
- I don't want to be your
- whipping boy
- You can tease me
- how I want you to
- and you can squeeze me
- baby I like that too
- but don't you lead me
- I won't follow you
- listen here
- I don't fear
- I don't want to be your
- whipping boy
- You can hold me
- baby I want you to
- and you can scold me
- yes I like that too
- but don't you lead me
- I won't follow you
- listen here
- I don't fear
- I don't want to be your
- whipping boy
- Well you can need me
- well I want you to
- and you can feed me
- baby I like that too
- but don't you lead me
- I won't follow you
- listen here
- I don't fear
- I don't want to be your
- whipping boy
- You don't believe that I love you
- and even if that was true
- why just to keep our unhappy home
- I'm gonna try to pretend that I do
- but I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- My baby she left me
- said she ain't comin' back around
- I'm breakin' down
- And if I thought that it was okay
- for a grown man to cry
- I would have filled up the whole mighty ocean
- when she said goodbye
- and I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- you know my baby she left me
- said she ain't comin' back around
- I'm breakin' down
- One day you said everything was just right
- I don't see how it changed overnight
- one day you said everything was so strong
- the next day you turn to me and say
- it's been wrong all along
- Oh and now you won't eve look at me
- you pass me by in the street and you won't even speak
- I never meant to cause you any harm
- how could two people start so close
- and end up so far
- I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- I'm breakin' down
- Waiting on an angel
- one to carry me home
- hope you come to see me soon
- cause I don't want to go alone
- I don't want to go alone
- Now angel won't you come by me
- angel hear my plea
- take my hand lift me up
- so that I can fly with thee
- so that I can fly with thee
- And I'm waiting on an angel
- and I know it won't be long
- to find myself a resting place
- in my angel's arms
- in my angel's arms
- So speak kind to a stranger
- cause you'll never know
- it just might be an angel come
- knockin' at your door
- knockin' at your door
- And I'm waiting on an angel
- and I know it won't be long
- to find myself a resting place
- in my angel's arms
- in my angel's arms
- Waiting on an angel
- one to carry me home
- hope you come to see me soon
- cause I don't want to go alone
- I don't want to go alone
- don't want to go
- I don't want to go alone
- Papa he left home today
- said he ain't comin' back again
- said he ain't gonna be nobody's second best
- just couse mama's got a special kind of friend
- Papa he left home today
- said he ain't comin' back no more
- said he ain't gonna take no damn back seat
- and how could mama do him so low
- But mama's got a girlfriend now boy
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- mama's got a girlfriend
- mama's got a true friend
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- You see mama don't watch your damn football
- and your beer drinkin' just won't do
- you're just stayin' out late
- and you're preachin' the hate
- and you never have been true
- You see mama she want her somebody
- who will let her be herself
- so she's leavin' you
- and your stinky damn ways
- cause she's found somebody else
- And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- mama's got a girlfriend
- mama's found a true friend
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- Papa he left home today
- he was wavin' his hands and cryin'
- you could tell by the sound
- and the tone in his voice
- that his heart was slowly dyin'
- But mama said ";Boy if I ever
- catch you 'round here again
- you ain't never gonna have nobody else
- not a woman or a man";
- And mama's got a girlfriend now boy
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- mama's got a girlfriend
- mama found a true friend
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- mama's got a girlfriend now boy
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- mama's got a girlfriend
- mama's found a true friend
- mama's got a girlfriend now
- Not talkin' 'bout a year
- no not three or four
- I don't want that kind of forever
- in my life anymore
- forever always seems
- to be around when it begins
- but forever never seems
- to be around when it ends
- so give me your forever
- please your forever
- not a day less will do
- from you
- People spend so much time
- every single day
- runnin' 'round all over town
- givin' their forever away
- but no not me
- I won't let my forever roam
- and now I hope I can find
- my forever a home
- so give me your forever
- please your forever
- not a day less will do
- from you
- Like a handless clock with numbers
- an infinite of time
- no not the forever found
- only in the mind
- forever always seems
- to be around when things begin
- but forever never seems
- to be around when things end
- so give me your forever
- please your forever
- not a day less will do
- from you
- Well Martin's dream
- has become Rodney's worst
- nightmare
- can't walk the streets
- to them we are fair game
- our lives don't mean a thing
- like a king, like a king, like a king
- Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
- like a king, like a king, like a king
- how I wish you could help us Dr. King
- Make sure it's filmed
- shown on national T.V.
- they'll have no mercy
- a legal lynch mob
- like the days strung up from the tree
- the L.A.P.D.
- like a king, like a king, like a king
- Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
- like a king, like a king, like a king
- how I wish you could help us Dr. King
- So if you catch yourself
- thinking it has changed for the best
- you better second guess
- cause Martin's dream
- has become Rodney's worst
- nightmare
- like a king, like a king, like a king
- Rodney King, Rodney King, Rodney King
- like a king, like a king, like a king
- how I wish you could help us Dr. King
- I'm leaving here on the morning train
- and I will never see this world again
- I've felt pleasure
- and I have felt pain
- and I know now
- that I can never be the same
- How I wonder why the world can be so cold
- and if only good die young
- then left with me cruel here to grow old
- and I felt pleasure
- an I felt pain
- and I know now
- I can never be the same
- And if someday I find my peace of mind
- I will share my wealth with all of human kind
- I've felt pleasure
- and I have felt pain
- and I know now
- that I can never be the same
- So if the sun does shine or rain does fall
- I give thanks I've had my sight to see through it all
- and I've felt pleasure
- and I have felt pain
- and I know now
- that I can never be the same
- Walk Away
- Oh no
- here comes that sun again
- that means another day
- without you my friend
- And it hurts me
- to look into the mirror at myself
- and it hurts even more
- to have to be with somebody else
- and it's so hard to do
- and so easy to say
- but sometimes
- sometimes you just have to walk away
- walk away
- With so many people
- to love in my life
- why do I worry
- about one
- But you put the happy
- in my ness
- you put the good times
- into my fun
- and it's so hard to do
- and so easy to say
- but sometimes
- sometimes you just have to walk away
- walk away
- and head for the door
- We've tried the goodbye
- so many days
- we walk in the same direction
- so that we could never stray
- they say if you love somebody
- than you have got to set them free
- but I would rather be locked to you
- than live in this pain and misery
- They say time will
- make all this go away
- but it's time that has taken my tomorrows
- and turned them into yesterdays
- and once again that rising sun
- is dropping on down
- and once again you my friend
- are nowhere to be found
- and it's so hard to do
- and so easy to say
- but sometimes
- sometimes you just have to walk away
- walk away
- and head for the door
- you just walk away
- walk away
- Exactly how much will have to burn
- Before we will look to the past to learn
- We walk along this endless path
- Which has led us in a circle
- So here we are right back
- We can't let the future become our past
- If we are to change the world
- Won't you tell me
- Tell me please
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- When I was a baby I was not prejudiced
- Hey how about you
- This was something
- That I learned in school
- Something they taught us to do
- We can't let our future become our past
- If we are to change the world
- Won't you tell me
- Tell me please
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- There must come a day
- When a box is not somebody's home
- The unfinished work of our heroes
- Must truly be our own
- We can't let the future become our past
- If we are to change the world
- Won't you tell me
- Tell me please
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- How many miles must we march
- Welcome to the cruel world
- hope you find your way
- welcome to the cruel world
- hope you find your way
- it's a cruel world
- try to enjoy your stay
- Yes it is a cruel world
- when you're tryin' to get by
- it's a cruel world
- when you've seen the look in their eye
- makes life hard living
- but I'm so scared to die
- Welcome to the cruel world
- welcome
- welcome
- Don't know how
- we've lasted here so long
- there must be more good than bad
- or we'd already be gone
- and if you get up to Heaven
- before I do
- I'm gonna tell ya
- It's gonna be cruel there too
- You can't hide from this cruel world
- cause there is no place to run
- you can't hide from the cruel world
- there just is no place to run
- it's been cruel from the beginning
- it will be cruel when we're done
- So when I'm gone
- I will gladly say goodbye
- when I am gone
- I will gladly say goodbye
- and if you want to feel me
- put your hands up to the sky
- Welcome to the cruel world
- welcome
- welcome
- hope you find your way
- try to enjoy your stay
- You may write me down in history
- with your bitter twisted lies
- you may trod me down in the very dirt
- and still like the dust I'll rise
- does my happiness upset you
- why are you best with gloom
- Cause I laugh like I've got an oil well
- pumpin' in my living room
- So you may shoot me with your words
- you may cut me with your eyes
- and I'll rise
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- out of the shacks of history's shame
- up from a past rooted in pain
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- Now did you want to see me broken
- bowed head and lowered eyes
- shoulders fallen down like tear drops
- weakened by my soulful cries
- Does my confidence upset you
- don't you take it awful hard
- cause I walk like I've got a diamond mine
- breakin' up in my front yard
- So you may shoot me with your words
- you may cut me with your eyes
- and I'll rise
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- out of the shacks of history's shame
- up from a past rooted in pain
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- So you may write me down in history
- with your bitter twisted lies
- you may trod me down in the very dirt
- and still like the dust I'll rise
- does my happiness upset you
- why are you best with gloom
- cause I laugh like I've got a goldmine
- Diggin' up in my living room
- So you may shoot me with your words
- you may cut me with your eyes
- and I'll rise
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- out of the shacks of history's shame
- up from a past rooted in pain
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
- I'll rise
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