This is not heaven. It's the world. And there's troubles in it.
Modern industrial society is a fanatical religion. We are demolishing poisoning destroying all life-systems on the planet. We are signing IOUs our children will not be able to pay... We are acting as if we were the last generation on the planet. Without a radical change in heart, in mind, in vision, the earth will end up like Venus, charred and dead.
Toutes les mains ruminent
L’histoire de la terre,
Tremblent de cette histoire.
Des milliers et des milliers d'années
Ne sauraient suffire
Pour dire
La petite seconde d'éternité
Où tu m'as embrassé
Où je t'ai embrassèe
Un matin dans la lumière de l'hiver
Au parc Montsouris à Paris
A Paris
Sur la terre
La terre qui est un astre.
Il faut aussi être poli avec la terre et avec le soleil
il faut les remercier le matin en se réveillant
il faut les remercier
Pour la chaleur
Pour les arbres
Pour les fruits
Pour tout ce qui est bon à manger
Pour tout ce qui est beau à regarder
Will the human race be run in a day, (in a day)
Or will someone save this planet we’re playing on?
Is it the only one? (What are we gonna do?)
Help them to see (help them to see)
That the people here are like you and me, (like you and me)
Let us show them how to play (how to play)
Play the pipes of peace.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain...
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?
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