Cruel Cruel World Look what you’ve done to this baby Innocence poured out of his soul Like blood from his body Forced out of him by this thing who Claimed to be a man No warnings or signs to the innocents In its path. Evil exists alongside good this we know But how could you make everything look the same Evil look just like good look just like us You’ve made it fit in Made it fit in To the naked eye To unknowing unjaded unfiltered eye it Lured this child in with its Sameness and familiarity It looks just like his father his uncle and his brother He supposes even he will look that way when he grows up He still thinks he will and when he does that This will be a good thing That’s because he still believes everything you’ve told him The lies you’ve fed The truths you’ve hid He doesn’t know about mistrust or untruths he Doesn’t know one wrong turn One no-way-of-knowing wrong choice can cost a life Can take his Can ruin millions He still thinks he can ask for directions And directions are all it will give Cruel cruel world Look what you’ve made This stranger who we don’t know We don’t know But assume someone does someone must That’s the way strangers work Just strangers-to-us But it’s a stranger to all Fooled us all with its seeming normalcy of Faked human movements Of faked human emotions Kindness as a form of manipulation Motivated by selfishness Masked by compassion On its face, but not in its heart When this boy turns the corner, It knows he made the wrong turn And knows what will happen next Though it does not know love And never ever will Cruel cruel world Why would you do this to my baby? He never learned to see you for what you really are he? Never learned that Bad things happen to good people which is best Because he never would have understood why He left this world confused by The pain and deceit Inflicted upon him He knows nothing of violence or hate but Now the rest of us do You’ve taught us all well But cruel cruel world How could you do that to such a sweet sweet baby? ***