Don't take this, don't take this world away from me
Don't take this world away from me
Don't take this, don't take this world away from me
Don't take this world away.
The future decides the roles we play
Struggles to sell the past away
The afterthought is staring back on better days.
Cause our daughters and sons will live to pay
Through every mistake that we have made
Through every conviction we've betrayed
So let the children sing
Don't take this, don't take this world away from me
Don't take this world away from me.
Yeah,
So what we can do to waste away
The answer that only time betrays
The question we'll ask ourselves from here to eternity
Will it be worth the price to pay
For living the lives in our remains
How do you think we will explain
When the children sing
Don't take this, don't take this world away from me
Don't take this world away from me.
Can we find a way
To face today
With an eye on the things to come?
Cause mistakes we've made
Bring on decay
And our chance to make a difference will be gone.
Oh!
Yeah!
Yeah!
So this is the price to pay (this is the price to pay)
For living in our remains (living in our remains)
Just listen as the children sing
Don't take this, don't take this world away
Don't take this, don't take this world away from me
Don't take this world away from me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa
Whoa, whoa, whoa.