Only the Earth

Time is a place I wish I could leave Tomorrow's cliff looming up at me Today treading water, lost at sea Yesterday's ghosts snapping at my heels These moneyed men would rule the ashes They would take our home and melt it down Pick the gold from the wreck of nature's palaces Ah but we have a love they cannot drown A cry in the hard rain falling A sick river A wheezing forest A choking lake and A staggering mountain The bleeding leaves With their open veins The screaming trees and The sobbing flowers The seething sea The crumbling reef The cliffs shed their tears Into the poisoned ocean And all gather round To hear the whales sing It's the last whale song I want to be held I will love you in the fragments I'll tie our love to the last island Before they privatise the sky Before they rob us of the dancing wind Before they sell us back the air we breathe Ah we'll find our voice and they'll hear us sing Ah we'll find our voice and they'll hear us roar We only want the earth We only want the love We only want the earth We only want the love We only want the earth