From the day that I was born, I've learned to live with how things are.
I'll never step up to the microphone or strum my own guitar.
For over thirty years now, I've been sitting in this chair.
When people stop and ask me if I think life's been unfair, I say,
I feel sorry for the hard-working mother raising children on her own.
And I feel sorry for the one who has to call a cold underpasses home.
And all the lonely people out there who cannot find a friend,
I feel sorry for them.
I've got a few bucks in my pocket and good boots upon my feet.
And a healthy mom and daddy who live just down the street.
A God who gives me mercy those times when I go wrong.
And another day to pour my heart into a song.
So I feel sorry for the ones who've had their house blown away in a hurricane.
And I feel sorry for the ones who lost somebody on that sad September day.
And anybody who hates somebody for the color of their skin,
I feel sorry for them.
I pity those who do not know that the lucky ones are the ones who love the most.
For all the lonely people out there who cannot find a friend,
yeah, I feel sorry for them.
Yeah.
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