One in Ten - Sleeping At Last

I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me Even though I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care My arms enfold the dole queue Malnutrition dulls my hair My eyes are black and lifeless With an underprivileged stare I'm the beggar on the corner Will no-one spare a dime? I'm the child that never learns to read Cause no-one spared the time I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me Even though I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care I'm the murderer and the victim The licence with the gun I'm a sad and bruised old lady In an ally in a slum I'm a middle aged businessman With chronic heart disease I'm another teenaged suicide In a street that has no trees I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me Even though I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care I'm a starving third world mother A refugee without a home I'm a house wife hooked on Valium I'm a Pensioner alone I'm a cancer ridden spectre Covering the earth I'm another hungry baby I'm an accident of birth I am the one in ten A number on a list I am the one in ten Even though I don't exist Nobody Knows me Even though I'm always there A statistic, a reminder Of a world that doesn't care

Baby when I met you there was peace unknown I set out to get you with a fine tooth comb I was soft inside, there was something going on You do something to me that I can't explain Hold me closer and I feel no pain Every beat of my heart, we got something going on A tender love is blind, it requires a dedication All this love we feel needs no conversation Rely on each other, oh ohh Makin love with each other, oh ohh Chorus: Islands in the stream, that is what we are No one in between, how can we be wrong Sail away with me, to another world When we rely on each other, oh ohh From one lover to another, oh ohh I can live without you when your love is gone Everything is nothing when you got no woman You just walk in the night Slowly losing sight of the real thing That won't happen to us and we got no doubt Too deep in love and we got no way out And the message is clear This could be the year for the real thing, yeahhh No more will you cry Baby I will hurt you never We started in love forever We rely on each other, oh ohh Makin love with each other, oh ohh Chorus