Charles Bradley

The World Is Going Up In Flames

Charles Bradley


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[Verse]
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This world
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is going up in flames
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and nobody
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wanna take the blame
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don’t tell me
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how to live my life
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when you
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never felt the pain
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ooo ooo ooo

[Chorus]
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come on babe
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they don’t hear me cry
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they don’t hear me
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they don’t hear me cry
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so what I gotta do

[Verse]
I can’t turn my head away
Seeing all these things
The world
is burning up in flames
and nobody
wanna take the blame
you oh you
you oh you
me oh me
they don’t hear me cry
they don’t hear me
it’s killing me
oh babe
come on babe
gotta be
a better world
gotta make it babe
gotta make it right
ooh