There's a man laying by the road
You see him up ahead as your pace is slowed
Got blood on his body, stripped of his clothes
Got no one to help him, no one who knows
You tell yourself as you walk right by
"There's too much pain in this world and I'm just one guy.
Somebody will surely stop, I'm on my way to shop."
Just look the other way, let your attention stray
Things will work out okay without you
There's a girl, you've seen her all the time
You can see her body changing, and you know her crime
She hasn't been a good girl, of that there's no doubt
You've heard it said around that she's been thrown out
You tell yourself, "This happens every day ...
she's one among millions who throws her child away
There's nothing we can do to help her make it through"
Just look the other way, let your attention stray
Things will work out okay without you
No one has called you to save the whole world
from the pain that has fallen upon it
But has your compassion grown cold to the poin
t
That you don't see the one who's before you
Maybe you can't. Or maybe you won't.
Maybe you care, but mostly you don't
Just look the other way, let your attention stray
Things will work out okay without you
©1991-2003 Jim Minker & "shovel-productions"
words and music written by Jim Minker 10/15/1991
