(Difford/Holland)  



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