Island of Anger - Christopher Cross

It’s a beautiful world

Filled with stupid people

Beating each other’s brains out

Like the cavemen did

But I’m stuck right here

Wondering why I can’t do

Like the brave men did

Oh don’t I know

This ain’t no way to live

When everything I see and hear

Makes me mad

And there’s no silver lining

The stuff that doesn’t get me angry

Makes me sad

Hard to believe I’m not a kid

Hard to believe the things I did

Hard to believe the ways I hid my love

Wondering now why I’m not free

Wondering how I came to be

An island of anger in a sea of love

And love rules

This much I understand

But all the ones who live for peace die for it

Still somehow that message comes

And every day I struggle to decipher it

Younger by half

I was quick to laugh

Hopeful and alive to what might come

Where’s my spark

Skies so dark

All I seem to hear is a distant drum

Hard to believe the time’s so short

Hard to believe I’m still in port

Dying to set a different sort of course

Wondering now how I’ll get free

And how to become a refugee

From an island of anger

In a sea of love