Heal the World – LoveMyESL

by Michael Jackson

an American singer-songwriter and philanthropist who was the most successful entertainer in history. He started singing in 1965 at the age of six. He died 44 years later in 2009. This song was released in 1991 on his album “Dangerous.”

There’s a place in your heart and I know that it is love
And this place could be much brighter than tomorrow
And if you really try, you’ll find there’s no need to cry
In this place you’ll feel there’s no hurt or sorrow
There are ways to get there if you care enough for the living
Make a little space, make a better place

Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying; if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me

If you want to know why there’s a love that cannot lie
Love is strong; it only cares for joyful giving
If we try we shall see in this bliss we cannot feel
Fear or dread; we stop existing and start living
Then it feels that always love’s enough for us growing
Make a better world, make a better world

Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying; if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me

And the dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face
And the world we once believed in will shine again in grace
Then why do we keep strangling life on this earth; crucify its soul?
Though it’s plain to see this world is heavenly; be God’s glow

We could fly so high; let our spirits never die
In my heart I feel you are all my brothers
Create a world with no fear; together we’ll cry happy tears
See the nations turn their swords into plowshares
We could really get there if you cared enough for the living
Make a little space to make a better place

Heal the world, make it a better place
For you and for me and the entire human race
There are people dying; if you care enough for the living
Make a better place for you and for me

Vocabulary:

sorrow: deep sadness
heal: make (something) better or healthier
joyful: very happy
shall: will
bliss: feeling of great joy
dread: great fear
existing: living with no emotion
entire: whole
conceived in: born into
reveal: show
grace: goodness
strangling: killing
crucify: kill in a very bad way
soul: spirit
plain: easy
heavenly: a wonderful place
glow: light
spirits: willingness to do it
create: make
nations: countries
swords: weapons, things that kill
plowshares: tools for farming