Leave Them a Flower

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I speak on behalf of the next generation Our sons and our daughters, their children to come What will we leave them for their recreation? An oil slick, a pylon, an industrial slum [Chorus] Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedge row A hill and a valley, a view to the sea These things are not ours to destroy as we want to A gift given once for eternity [Verse 2] We plunder, we pillage, we tare and we tunnel Trees lying toppled, they finger the sky Building a land for machines and computers In the name of progress the farms have to die [Chorus] Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedge row A hill and a valley, a view to the sea These things are not ours to destroy as we want to A gift given once for eternity [Verse 3] Fish in the ocean polluted and poisoned The sand on our beaches all stinking and black We and our tankers and banks and investments Say never worry the birds will come back [Chorus] Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedge row A hill and a valley, a view to the sea These things are not ours to destroy as we want to A gift given once for eternity [Verse 4] When the last flower has dropped its last petal When the last concrete is finally laid The moon will shine cold on the nightmarish landscape Our gift to our children, the world that we made [Chorus] Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedge row A hill and a valley and a view to the sea These things are not ours to destroy as we want to A gift given once for eternity [Outro] Eternity Eternity Eternity Eternity