Or is this a vision in my mind? I'm not one who make believes I know that leaves are green I know just what I say Today's not yesterday And all things have an ending But what I'd like to know Is could a place like this exist so beautiful People hand in

I just called to say I love you And I mean it from the bottom of my heart I just called to say how much I care, I do No New Year's Day to celebrate No chocolate covered candy hearts to give away No first of spring, no song to sing In fact here's just

It's now or never Or do we sit here wondering Who we are and how we've tried In this time are we loving Why this world isn't turning around In this way are we learning Or do we sit here yearning For this world to stop turning around In this time, are we

Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why it should be thus all the day long While there are others living about us, never molested, though in the wrong When death has come and taken our loved ones, it leaves our home so lonely and dreary Then do we

Bring you all along with me Will we need it? When the war ends, yeah We'll wonder what it was about And when we grow old, yeah We'll all wonder how we missed out I've got soulful days to counter evil ways Shed me from the universe Carry me from life

Some kind of ecstasy got a hold on me And I'm wondering where the lions are I'm wondering where the lions are Sun's up, uuh huh, looks okay The world survives into another day And I'm thinking about eternity I had another dream about lions at the door

And I think to myself what a wonderful world I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also

Today I saw a boy And I wondered if he noticed me He took my breath away I can't get him off my mind And it scares me Cause I've never felt this way No one in this world Knows me better than you do

Pay attention to the cracked streets And the broken homes Some call it slums Some call it nice I want to take you through A wasteland I like to call my home Welcome to paradise Dear mother It makes me wonder why I'm still here

I'm doing the best I ever did I'm doing the best that I can Now go away! I'm doing the best I ever did (go away) I feel for you, better fuckin' go away I will behave, you better go away I'm doing the best that I can (go away) And I wonder day to day I