Turn This World Around - Kenny Rogers

Once upon a time in a city made of gold

Streets were full of dreams

The air was full of hope

But somewhere in the midnight

Beneath the crooked moon

The children stopped believin'

So the flowers never bloomed

The elders lost their sanity

Mothers lost their smiles

Fathers chased the money got one too many miles

Water turned to whiskey

The visionaries, blind

While the people in the picture box

Were poisoning their minds — their minds, their minds

Let’s burn this bridge and ride this river to another town

Hold up a holy flame

To all the rain that’s pourin' down

Well hatred is the seed

The Devil planted in the ground

Our beating hearts are singin' now

For love to turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Let’s dust off all the rust

It starts from diamonds on the sea

Ring the bells in the cathedrals

Rejoice for what’s redeemed

Let’s lock and load with truth

And blow up the lies

All of us are guilty, we have no alibi

Let’s burn this bridge and ride this river to another town

Hold up a holy flame

To all the rain that’s pourin' down

Well hatred is the seed

The Devil planted in the ground

Our beatin' hearts are singin' now

For love to turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Woah turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Woah turn this world around

Woah turn this world around

Let’s burn this bridge and ride this river to another town

Hold up the holy flame

To all the rain that’s pourin' down

Well hatred is the seed

The Devil planted in the ground

Our beatin' hearts are singin' out — singin' out

Our beatin' hearts are singin' out

For love to turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Turn this world around

Oh turn this world around

Oh

Woah, turn this world around