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Album: Play On (2009)
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  • What'cha gonna do with the thirty six cents
    Sticky with coke on your floorboard
    When a woman on the street is huddled in the cold
    On a sidewalk bench trying to keep warm
    Do you call her over hand her the change
    Ask her a story ask her her name
    Or do you tell yourself

    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world
    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world

    What'cha gonna do when you're watching t.v.
    And an ad comes on
    Yeah you know the kind
    Flashin' up pictures of a child in need
    For a dime a day you can save a life
    Do you call the number reach out a hand
    Or do you change the channel call it a scam
    Or do you tell yourself

    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world
    Don't listen to them when they say
    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world
    Oh the smallest thing can make all the difference
    Love is alive
    Don't listen to 'em when they say
    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world

    And the world's so big it can break your heart
    And you just wanna help
    Not sure where to start
    So you close your eyes
    And send up a prayer into the dark

    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world
    Don't listen to them when they say
    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world

    Oh the smallest thing can all the difference
    Love is alive
    Don't listen to them when they say
    You're just a fool
    Just a fool
    To believe you can change the world Writer/s: Chris Tompkins, Joshua Peter Kear, Katrina Elam
    Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Star from Bestrolls.webs.com, GaGreat song. I write songs too; I've written about 30! And Carrie's right: WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD! We need to be salt and light!
  • Samantha from Mohegan Lake, Nythis song really speaks to me. im sure it speaks to a lot of others to bu it just is really an inspirational song. it makes me wanna just pick up the phone and donate 5,000 dollars to any place that needs it. (that is, if i even had that much money-lol) i hope that this song inspires everyone who goes on this site and everyone else too. and i hope that if Carrie Underwood goes on this site that she sees this comment and keeps makin songs like this one. i actually write songs myself. I've written 3 so far: one in 2007, and 2 this year. in fact i finished my third song just last night. it's a great way to express myself in a way that normal words can't especially when i'm sad, just likeartists express themselves through their artwork, singers and songwriters express themselves through their music.
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