The Sound of Crying

Hang out the flags

A new world order's on the way

Start singing now

A song to greet the joyful day

Just when we thought the time was right

For celebrating

With music of the spheres

What's this?

Another boat of fleeing refugees

On a sea of children's tears

Once more the sound of crying

Is number one across the earth

Once more the sound of crying

Is number one across the earth

We're only men and women

Doing what we can

Sometimes I think that

God is working to a plan

Then other times I swear

That he is improvising

Discordant and remote

Another orphan baby in a failed uprising

Another real bum note

Once more the sound of crying

Is number one across the earth

Once more the sound of crying

Is number one across the earth

Once more the sound of crying

(The sound of crying)

Once more the sound of crying

(The sound of crying)

And if you're listening up there

You could consider this a prayer

Well, who am I to tell yo

How to run your business

When you could strike me blind?

What kind of noise

We gotta make down here before we

Destroy your peace of mind?

Once more the sound of crying

Is number one across the earth

Once more the sound of crying

Is number one across the earth

Once more the sound of crying

(The sound of crying)

Once more the sound of crying

And if you're listening up there

Yeah, yeah

(The sound of crying)

Once more the sound of crying

Once more the sound of crying

(The sound of crying)

Once more the sound of crying

(The sound of crying)

Once more the sound of crying

Once more the sound of crying

Once more the sound of crying

Once more the sound of crying...