• Wishing Things Could Be Different

Wishing Things Could Be Different

Music & lyrics, 1991

Wishin' things could be different
Wishin' they weren't always the same
Wishin' I could stop the death and destruction
Wishin' I could heal the shame

Wishin' I could rewrite history
Redesign our DNA
Initiate a new beginning
Usher in a brand new day

But if you ask me how I'm doing
I'll say I'm OK
I'm not lost in the rain
I'm just a middle-class guy
With a middle-class life
How can I complain?

Yet I feel the pain...

Wishin' I could stop the slaughter
Of the innocents, children and beasts
Wishin' I could stop the hunger
Wishin' I could share the feast

Livin' here in New York City
Livin' in Atlanta, L.A.
Wishin' all the gangs, street drugs and crime
Were but a passing phase, not our decay

But if you ask me how I'm doing
I'll say I'm OK
I'm not lost in the rain
I'm just a middle-class guy
With a middle-class life
How can I complain?

Yet I feel the pain...