"Wicked World" as written by and Ward Lommi....
The world today is such a wicked thing
Fighting going on between the human race
People give good wishes to all their friends
While people just across the sea are counting the dead
A politician's job they say is very high
For he has to choose who's got to go and die
They can put a man on the moon quite easy
While people here on earth are dying of old diseases
A woman goes to work every day after day
She just goes to work just to earn her pay
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
He doesn't even know who is his father
Fighting going on between the human race
People give good wishes to all their friends
While people just across the sea are counting the dead
A politician's job they say is very high
For he has to choose who's got to go and die
They can put a man on the moon quite easy
While people here on earth are dying of old diseases
A woman goes to work every day after day
She just goes to work just to earn her pay
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
He doesn't even know who is his father
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I've heard a few transcriptions of the 11th line:
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
Child sitting crying "My life is harder"*
Child sitting by a body, life is harder
*I believe it's most likely this one.
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
i know this as it is written in my album booklet, and i doubt they would get their own lyrics wrong.
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it just means what it says: life is hard, and people have problems.
some of sabbath's later work however, was so loaded with symbolism and abstraction that ozzy himself probably can't tell you what he meant at the time.