I wish there was a way to stop people from dying

To stop it all for their loved ones who are out there crying

There are millions of people who die each day

From age, or disease, or maybe just having got in the way

But there's a million more out there crying for them

Who can't take the pain, and would follow them on a whim

We see it happen every day on our TV screens

The fighting, the killing, the innocents' screams

But we don't know how it feels until it happens to us

When a person you love becomes nothing more than dust

First, there's the tears that fall so slow

While the reality of it all grows

And then that first sob tears through your body

It makes you shake, and your nose gets all runny

And it hurts…oh, it hurts, it's so wrong

To see someone you thought was so strong

Dissolve in silent tears like they did as a child

My heart now beats so very wild

As memories of a lost past assault my mind

Good and bad alike returning in kind

There's nothing to do now, but to keep on crying

I wish there was a way to stop people from dying