Never Ceases To Amaze Me Written by T.A. Allard
Two women in the car behind me are holding hands
From the rear view mirror they appear to be in love
But it's a situation not everyone understands
So the road they travel on will be rough
A man in a talk show stands up just to say
The good Lord looks down on folks who live this way
But at night that man goes home and he beats his kids
Does the good Lord close his eyes to all of this?
Oh, it never ceases to amaze me, this world we're living in
What one man sees as love, another sees as sin
A black kid from the streets of east L.A.
Stayed in school and out of the drug war hell
His teachers saw a bright and able face
And they rewarded him with a scholarship to Yale
But did the moonless sky obscure the good Lord's sight
When four angry men surrounded him that night
Mumbling something about preserving the white race
Took the life of the bright and able face
Oh, it never ceases to amaze me, this world we're living in
One man sees your soul, another sees your skin
Are we so afraid of different shades of love
We chose not to see at all
Blindly standing by we'll hear our children cry
And our ignorance will never break their fall
Oh, it never ceases to amaze me in this world that's spinning 'round
Why some men fight so hard to keep each other down
Almost eighty years have passed since he was born
He's seen several wars and he met Martin Luther King
And the stories that he tells are found and warm
He says he's lived this long because he learned one thing
He says, "Doesn't matter much who's wrong or right
Never did a man much good to fight
You gotta treat each one as if he were your brother
Hey, it's a crazy world, we gotta take care of each other"
And it never ceases to amaze me in world that seemed so blind
How one very wise old man could make me see mankind
As if for the very first time
Never ceases to amaze me
Never ceases to amaze me
