Some folks always get the rough ride   Seem they end up on the wrong side   Constant battle just to survive on any given day   I watched a mother on my TV   Hungry children that she can't feed   Still I've got everything that I need   And that just don't seem right   That I sleep safe tonight   There's got to be some rhyme or reason why   We turn away and we close our eyes   If I could find some way that we could justify all of this suffering   There but for the grace of God go I   Mother Earth is down on her knees   Poison rivers run to dead seas   Cities eating up the green fields   We never question why   How truth turns into lies   There's got to be some rhyme or reason why   We turn away and we close our eyes   If I could find some way that we could justify all of this suffering   There but for the grace of God go I   Sometimes it's hard to believe   In a truth that you can't even see   But faith holds the hope for the world   And I know, I know   There's got to be some rhyme or reason why   We turn away and we close our eyes   If I could find some way that we could justify all of this suffering   There but for the grace of God go I   When I'm thinking it's a bad day   Feels like nothing's going my way   I pass a wreck out on the freeway   And I pray that they survived   There but for the grace of God go I