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2 October 2022. Hurricane Ian just destroyed much of our old stomping grounds in Venice Florida. Russia has been losing a war against Ukraine for abut 7 weeks and there is talk of them getting ready to use small battlefield tactical nuclear weapons. The supreme court has gone to the far-right and the ex-president of the U.S. is probably going to go to jail for tax evasion. The murder rate in the US is at an all timer high and over one million illegal immigrants are walking across our borders a year. Add to it that interests rates are approaching 7 percent. We have records number of working poor who are homeless because they can't afford rent and and analysts predict we will be in a full recession by the end of the year. So I wrote this song.

Lyrics

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but no one wants to die
Everybody wants to roll a seven, But they’re afraid to toss the dice
Everybody’s searching - For somebody else
Everybody’s hurting - looking for some help

Everybody wants to go to Disney - But no one wants to pay the price
Everybody wants to ride space mountain - Now wouldn’t that be nice

Everybody wants a long vacation - Everybody wants to get away
Everybody wants to find salvation - But nobody wants to pray
Everybody’s got their own opinion - Everybody wants their voices heard
But if everybody talking then no one’s listenin’ - Why must we all have the last word

And all I want is silence - Get away from all the noise
vanquish all the violence - And give me back my joy

CHORUS
I swear the world gone crazy - What have we become?
Nothing use to faze me - O my God what have we done?

Everybody wants to be a rich man - But no one wants to work
Everyone feels that they’re entitled - To inherit the earth
And all men are born equal - But that is where it ends
Sometimes life can be deceitful - But we’re all made equal in the end

Everybody wants to find a lover - We just all want to be loved
But sometimes we discover - That love is not enough
And so we keep on searching - For something that we can’t find
Anything to stop the hurting - Some things just can’t be satisfied

CHORUS
I swear the world gone crazy - What have we become?
Nothing use to faze me -O my God what have we done?

Some men wish for money - Some men wish for fame
Others for power and glory, but to - me it’s all part of the same game
Now I don’t wish for silver - I don’t wish for gold
Life is like a river - something that we can’t hold

And me, I don’t need nothing - Nothing except you
I need you to touch me, then at least I’ll know one thing that is true
I need you to touch me, then at least I’ll know one thing that is true