Accident of Birth

I won the parent lottery, my parents were so good to me
 In a safe and prosperous place, I grew up in a time of peace
 Like every child I had my fears
 But they stood by me through the years
 In time I came to realize, not everybody lives a life of ease
 It was an accident of birth, how much a life is worth
 In a particular time and place, it was nothing that I deserved
 It's really such a mystery, where we land in human history
 It's only just an accident, an accident of birth
 If I'd been born some years before, I might have been sent off to war
 In a different time or place, I could have been a peasant or a slave
 I never had to do without, or suffer famine's angry drought
 If we go back far enough, I might have grown up living in a cave
 It was an accident of birth, how much a life is worth
 In a particular time and place, it was nothing that I deserved
 It's really such a mystery, where we land in human history
 It's only just an accident, an accident of birth
 She grew up fifteen miles away, our stories are like night and day
 The daughter of an addict, on the streets, abandoned and abused
 And though she learned to rise above, a life so hard, with little love
 If she had another chance
 You know it wouldn't be the life she'd choose
 It was an accident of birth, how much a life is worth
 In a particular time and place, it was nothing that I deserved
 It's really such a mystery, where we land in human history
 It's only just an accident, an accident of birth
 It's only just an accident, an accident of birth