What a world,
what a dark world
But it's turnin'
Seen the worst of it
But I found the beauty
Listen
Yeah, yeah
I see trees of green but
they painted gray
When you fightin' for your life
just to see the day I
seen red roses too but they
bloom through concrete Where the dreamers
get lost on the cold heart
of the street And I think
to myself how we survived the
storm When the shelter was weak
and the winters weren't warm They
told us we wouldn't amount to
a single thing
Just targets for failure,
clipped birds can't sing But we
built up our wings out of
ashes and dust In a world
full of lies,
loyalty is trust I look at
the skyline pierced by the haze
Thinkin' 'bout the nights lost in
a cynical maze And I think
to myself
What a wonderful world Through the
pain, through the tears,
through the fears Through the cards
that unfurl
Yeah, I think to myself
What a wonderful world Such a
wonderful world
Yeah
I see skies of blue and
clouds of white Man,
it took a lot of darkness
just to find this light The
bright blessed day,
the dark sacred night Every scar
on my back is a badge
of a fight The colors of
the rainbow so pretty in the
sky Are also on the faces
of the people passin' by I
see friends shakin' hands sayin',
"How do you do?" When most
of them never really knew the
real you They really sayin' "I
love you" when they see you
win Forget about the times when
you was stuck in sin I
watch children grow and they learn
how to fly And I wipe
all the tears from my mama's
eye And I think to myself
What a wonderful world Through the
pain, through the tears,
through the fears Through the cards
that unfurl
Yeah, I think to myself
What a wonderful world
Oh yeah
What a wonderful world
What a wonderful world
As I think to myself
What a wonderful world
From the dirt to the stars
Mike Nice