Did I Make A Difference

I’m caught up in the push and shove

The daily grind, burning time, spinning wheels;

I wonder what I’m doing here

Day to day, year to year, standing still.

Somewhere there’s a teacher with a heart never quits

Staying after school to help some inner-city kids,

A mother who’s a volunteer, a Soldier in the fight,

And I can’t help but ask myself when I lay down at night.

Did I make a difference in somebody’s life?

What hurts did I heal?

What wrongs did I right?

Did I raise my voice in defence of the truth?

Did I lend my hand to the destitute?

When my race is run, when my song is sung,

Will I have to wonder

Did I make a difference?

Did I make a difference?

I’ve been working hard to make a living

And forgetting what true living is.

Taking more than giving; something’s missing.

Lord how long can I go on like this?

There’s a lonely old man down the street and I should be ashamed,

I’ve never been to see him; I don’t even know his name.

There’s kids without their supper in my own neighbourhood.

Will I look back someday and say that I did all I could?

Did I make a difference in somebody’s life?

What hurts did I heal?

What wrongs did I right?

Did I raise my voice in defence of the truth?

Did I lend my hand to the destitute?

When my race is run, when my song is sung,

Will I have to wonder

Did I make a difference?

Did I make a difference?

When my race is run, when my song is sung,

Will I have to wonder

Did I make a difference?

Did I make a difference?

Did I make a difference?