What kind of world is this  I'm afraid to walk these streets alone  What kind of world is this  Where the commonplace is a broken home  What kind of world    What kind of world is this  Where the law determines life or death   for your unborn child  What kind is world is this  We follow the images   that mark these times  And in this world    Chorus: I don't want to be  Solitary, solitary, no    What kind of world is this  Do we so believe in   every story that we've sold  What kind of world is this  Where we welcome children   but we shun the old  And in this world    Chorus    What kind of world is this  There's someone with your name   sleeping on the street tonight   What kind of world  We turn our eyes away from lovers   but we gather for a fight  And in this world    I don't want to be solitary    (One of my many prayers for more  compassion and forgiveness in our lives.)    "The quality of mercy is not strained  It falleth like the gentle rain from heaven  It is twice blessed  It blesseth he who gives and he who receives"    --Edward Devere, 17th Earl of Oxford (aka William Shakespeare)