All In This Together

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All In This Together

Words and Music by Jimmy Scott

How can I even try to explain what I’ve seen.  Little kids helpless on the floor like in some bad dream

Some couldn’t move their limbs at all but one was trying to feed the little boy lying next to her and it helped me to see

We’re all in this together, living right now, let’s try and make it better for each other somehow

No one should feel hungry, everyone should be loved, we’re all in this together, every one of us.

Since I walked away from the kids that day through the bustling streets, I look a little deeper at each stranger I meet

I see much more in common than I used to do, you smile just like me, I hurt just like you

Somewhere a child newly born  gazes in a mothers eyes, while a father of another is preparing to die,

So the circle turns, I’ve come to learn, only love can save the day, like those little kids at the orphanage whose eyes seemed to say