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Leave This World Better


Artist: Bret Cutrer
Key Signature:
Time Signature: 4/4
Artist's Description
**“Leave This World Better”** is about remembering what really makes a life worth living.

It’s about backroads, neighbors, family, sitting around a fire, helping somebody when they’re down, and realizing that being rich means a whole lot more than what’s sitting in a bank account.

We may not be able to fix the whole world by ourselves, but we can change the little piece of it around us. One good deed. One conversation. One helping hand. One person at a time.

Maybe heaven isn’t only somewhere we’re waiting to reach someday. Maybe a little piece of it can be built right here—in the families we raise, the communities we create, and the way we treat the people walking beside us.

The goal is simple:

**Leave this world a little better than the one we walked into.**

One hand. One heart. One life at a time.


Genre(s): Country, Folk
Mood(s): Calm
Style(s):
Tempo: Mid Tempo
Language(s): English
Instrument(s): Singer songwriter ( Small band, Vocal + Guitar, Piano, Bass , etc)
Vocal Type(s): AI Vocals
File Type: MP3
Leave This World BetterDigital Download:$3.00
Standard License:$150.00
Extended License:$250.00
[Verse 1]
I was raised where the pine trees whisper,
Where the backroads know your name,
Where a man's still judged by his word
And the way he carries pain.
I've watched good people get tired,
I've watched hard hearts grow cold,
But I still believe there's something in us
Worth more than silver and gold.

[Chorus]
We could leave this world a little better
Than the one that we walked into,
Plant a little love in the hard ground,
Give a hand when somebody's going through.
We weren't born just to work and die,
Or spend our whole lives getting by.
Maybe heaven ain't just somewhere we go—
Maybe it's something we grow
Right here, side by side.

[Verse 2]
So check on your old neighbor,
Teach your young ones how to care.
If you've got a little extra,
Leave a little something there.
Sit around a fire together,
Put the damn phone down awhile.
You'll learn a poor man can feel rich
When his children make him smile.

[Chorus]
We could leave this world a little better
Than the one that we walked into,
Plant a little love in the hard ground,
Give a hand when somebody's going through.
We weren't born just to work and die,
Or spend our whole lives getting by.
Maybe heaven ain't just somewhere we go—
Maybe it's something we grow
Right here, side by side.

[Bridge — fiddle answers each line]
You don't need a million dollars...
To change somebody's day.
You don't need a crowd behind you...
To choose a better way.
And you don't have to fix the whole world...
Just help the soul beside you.
'Cause a thousand little lights together
Can make the darkness move.

[Final Chorus — raw, almost breaking]
Let's leave this world a little better
For the ones still coming through.
Give our children something worth believing,
Show 'em what good people do.
Build something love can live inside,
Something stronger than our pride.
And if heaven's something we can help create—
Brother, I don't wanna wait.
Let's start right here tonight.

[Outro — voice nearly alone]
One hand...
One heart...
One life at a time.

[Fiddle plays the melody alone and slowly fades.]

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