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Wicked World Lyrics

The world today is such a wicked place
Fighting going on between the human race
People go to work just to earn their bread
While people just across the sea are counting their 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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jt On Jun 10, 2001
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Money is spent on worthless things instead of going towards helping the human race. Greedy assholes don't give a fuck as long as they have money and power.

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.

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it is definitely 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. <3

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This song was made in the 70s and yet it still applies today

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I love the live version of this on "Live At Last". The guitar solo is cool.

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Amazing work...........by the most legendary band ever

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I thought it was "child sitting crying 'bout a life that's harder", but I guess that also makes sense.... Great song though.

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this is one of those songs that's so straightforward and simple that it really doesn't need any interpretation. 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.

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Teletubbies ninja fight club!