It Doesn't Have to Be That Way

Abandoned buildings surround us all

Through their broken windows shelter calls

Dumpster fires warm the night

Stolen food is shared to ease hunger's fight

But, it doesn't have to be that way

God provides enough, you see,

For every soul, for you and me.

Shelter, love, and bread to spare,

But we forget and leave it there.

We have fields of wheat in golden waves,

Yet hunger fills too many graves.

Hearts grow cold where love should stay,

We hoard the light, then curse the day.

It’s not the earth that’s running dry,

It’s the greed of man that shuts the mind

But it doesn't have to be that way

God provides enough, you see,

For every soul, for you and me.

Shelter, love, and bread to spare,

But we forget, and leave it there

What if we opened every door,

Used what we had to heal the poor?

With loving hands of plenty, not fists of strife,

We could build the world, could change a life.

It could be that way

God provides enough, you see,

For every soul, for you and me.

Shelter, love, and bread to spare,

But we forget, and leave it there

We forget and leave it there

This is a lyric to a song I wrote. The song can be found on Spotify, Amazon an Youtube.