Janet Jackson - Livin' In A World (They Didn't Make) Lyrics






Children are called the future of an adult world
They are born with spirits so innocent
Til we teach them how to hate
Add to the world's confusion
We teach our kids rules
That we don't adhere to ourselves
Right or wrong
What example can they take
The people we learn from
Forge the ideas we become

Living in a world they didn't make
Living in a world that's filled with hate
Living in a world where grown-ups break the rules
Living in a world they didn't make
Paying for a lot of adult mistakes
How much of this madness can they take
Our children

Children grow to become our young adults
Problems of the world
They must learn how to confront
Doing drugs and joining gangs to rebel
Colors show they belong
To the social override
Cause they're living in a space
They feel out of place

Living in a world they didn't make
Living in a world that's filled with hate
Living in a world where grown-ups break the rules
Living in a world they didn't make
Paying for a lot of adult mistakes
How much of this madness can they take
Our children





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  1. A.... D....

    The Jackson family, great humanists!

  2. S.... H....

    Janet Jackson Livin' In A World (They Didn't Make)

    [Verse 1]
    Children are called the future of an adult world
    They are born with spirits so innocent
    'Til we teach them how to hate
    Add to the world's confusion
    We teach our kids rules
    That we don't adhere to ourselves
    Right or wrong
    What examples can they take?
    The people we learn from
    Forge the ideas we become

    [Chorus]
    Livin' in a world they didn't make
    Livin' in a world that's filled with hate
    Livin' in a world where grown-ups break the rules
    (And they're just)
    Livin' in a world they didn't make
    Payin' for a lot of adult mistakes
    How much of this madness can they take, our children?

    [Verse 2]
    Children grow to become our young adults
    Problems of the world
    They must learn how to confront
    Doin' drugs, joinin' gangs to rebel
    Colors show they belong
    To the social override
    Cause they're livin' in a space
    They feel out of place

    [Chorus]
    Livin' in a world they didn't make
    Livin' in a world that's filled with hate
    Livin' in a world where grown-ups break the rules
    (And they're just)
    Livin' in a world they didn't make
    Payin' for a lot of adult mistakes
    How much of this madness can they take, our children?
    (How much can they take?)
    Livin' in a world they didn't make
    Livin' in a world that's filled with hate
    Livin' in a world where grown-ups break the rules
    ('Cause they're just)
    Livin' in a world they didn't make (livin' in a world)
    Payin' for a lot of adult mistakes (livin' in a world)
    How much of this madness can they take, our children? (livin' in a world)

    [Outro]
    How much can they take?
    Children of the world
    They are born so innocent
    How much can they take?
    Save the babies
    Save the babies

    [Spoken Outro to Fade]
    This just in, at least 5 people are dead, and 30 others wounded, after a gunman opened fire at a California school playground, and then killed himself. Apparently, the gunman, armed with an automatic rifle, shot the kids' door...

  3. B.... S....

    This song. It made me cry the first time I heard it. 😭