From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen, I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
And I'm singing

Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, Amen I, Amen I, I'm alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen, I, I'm alive (I'm alive)
Singing Amen, I, I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
Then we'd see the day when nobody died

Then we'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
Then we'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
Then we'd see the day when nobody died


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If Everyone Cared Lyrics as written by Ryan Peake Daniel Adair

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    I don't think he's saying that he is perfect here.

    The song has distinct religious undertones. You'd have to be stupid not to recognize the implication of nobody dying. The use of the word "amen" (= let it be so) and "I'm alive" would add some credit to that view. Even though "God" is not mentioned at all, it's implied.

    A lot of people think the early teachings of Jesus were not that the kingdom of heaven is a distant, "afterlife" kind of thing, but something you enter even on this earth. Hence the idea that we never die, if we believe in him and follow his teachings. "If" being the key word. Living like Christ requires that you deny yourself and love people you don't even know. It's the hardest way to live on this earth. Hence the reason why as a Christian, I would never offer the message of Jesus like one offers a dog a new toy. People aren't dogs, and they need to understand what it means to live for utopia. It demands everything, your future, even your soul. There are benefits, but like working a job, to earn money you have to keep at it.

    If you set the Christian perspective aside, however, the song rings of the Jewish eschatology of a "messianic age" where there is no one person known as Messiah but rather is all people on earth, learning to love each other.

    I happen to believe that there is a person, and that person if Jesus, and that his purpose here and the goal of the song are really one and the same.

    ascribe2thelordon April 03, 2007   Link

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