Squeeze - Heartbreaking World lyrics

(difford/holland) The saddest thing i've ever seen Was a starving face on my tv screen The desperate face that i saw Had my disbelief hanging from my jaw Our harvest could be shared around Instead it's buried in the ground The saddest thing i've ever seen Was a football fan dying for his team The toughest thing i have ever known Was a soldier boy who never made it home It's fiction live before our eyes It leaves me cold and my heart cries The greatest thing i've ever seen Was a newborn child looking up at me The greatest sound i've ever heard Was a baby's cry in this wicked world The innocence of that cry Leaves me cold and my heart cries It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be It's a heartbreaking world if you want it to be And you're the one that breaks it for me