PART l

Ice Caps are melting. Tides are turning

Wild, wild life is crying out in vain

Ozone depleting. Global Heating

Child, child with no future. What a shame

Can't you see the forest for the trees?

I forgot, we chopped them all down

Don't you know you're getting hard to please

Stop the rot before it comes 'round to you

Building fences. Strong defences

Keeps them in or does it keep us out?

Bridges burning, while seats of learning

Sow, sow into mind fields seeds of doubt

Can't you see it's getting hard to sleep?

Tossing and turning, not a moment's peace

Don't you know what you sow is what you reap

Wasted minute in a sea of apathy

You seek to justify a better way of life

The more things change the more they stay the same

Why do you quantify yet wield a two-edged knife?

For you to win must you destroy the game?

The walls between us are getting wider

Eye for eye is not the only way to go

Can't you see there's enough insanity?

Life as it is not as it should be

You lay down with dogs, you're gonna wake up with fleas

You're scratching the surface, not treating the disease

Justify the things we do to make a better place to live

You can't satisfy both me and you

There's so much of your life you've gotta give

But, do you know the way home from here?

PART ll

Tears well up in rheumy eyes as I recall the time

That all were silent, souls were torn apart

Hear the voices rising against an unseen foe

Terror in the minds and hearts

Vindicate the actions, can't do this anymore

When we gage reactions, when we're always keeping score

Give and take is lost on us, we're always wanting more and more

You ask the question 'Why I'm here and who are they?'

And 'What's been going on?'

And 'How could we let ourselves be led to such a place?'

Who is right and who is wrong?

It's the way we live and die in constant state of fear

All we do is cover weakness, don't shed a single tear

And every waking moment only serves to tell us why

There's no second chances here

You come to realise there's more to life than this

A bowl of dirt revolving 'round a distant sun

That everything that happens, happens for a reason

And not some twist of fate or cosmic roll of dice

So now's the time to breathe deep the atmosphere of love

And feel the warmth around you, and start to look above

The horizons of the many fears and doubts that cloud an open mind

PART lll

The walls between us come crashing down

Brother, my brother, the children hold the key

Finally see just where we need to be

Stand together, a greater destiny

Now you know you don't get it all for free

Will it Take you, elevate you, re-generate you

No need to justify a better way of life

The more we change the more we realise

It's time to satisfy the yearning deep within

And know the meaning of the sacrifice