Can't Turn Away - Maxi Priest

I can hear them crying

Tears of all mankind

Oh children on the sidewalk

Oh before their time

There seems to be injustice

So many people live in poverty

A lack of dedication

Oh it’s like a mountain on the streets

Oh I just can’t turn away

I just can’t turn away 2x

A sense of desperation

Tears like a dove

Said I thought we had religion

Why isn’t that enough

The sense of mass destruction

Always had to ???

Starvation in the third world

This isn’t how it’s meant to be

Now it’s criminal when you come to think about the world we’re living always on

the brink

Like a time bomb we can still escape

Make a first move it’s not too late

Politicians made this mess so let’s clean it out, take a world of stress

For the sake of children, you know what I mean

Everybody’s got a right to dream 2x

It’s like an ocean

Ooh you gotta catch the wave

Try your best to beat the system

Oh before you hit for real

Smoke spasm from the oil wells

And I can’t see the sun from where I am

There’s a breakdown in the ozone

This couldn’t be a part of nature’s plan