I Think I Shall Never See

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3,000 years ago the world was a giant place Expansive forests, untouched lands Skies were for the birds, trees were forever And nature's worst invention had still yet to form a plan But our population grew And with it grew ambition and desire To conquer all we can, own what we cannot Throw the unnecessary away Today only 5% of the forests in our country Exist of what there was just 200 years ago And beautiful feats of nature formed by thousands of years of patient practice Are destroyed without a second thought for precious resources that will make the economy grow My grandparents had never seen a plane, a skyscraper or a motor car Or a cell phone or a TV My parents worked so hard to destroy the gifts given to us Now my grandchildren will never see a tree Someday I'll take a small child down to the last grass-covered hill in my town And say "The whole world was once like this and more" But words and photographs won't make them understand Dinosaurs had been around for thousands of more Years than we could ever hope to be And isn't it ironic we're the ones destroying Earth instead of the planet killing me? A friend of mine used to deep sea dive but he doesn't do it anymore He gets tears in his eyes when you ask him why and says the ugliest stretch of ocean floor Ten years ago is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful today That was just ten years ago Only ten fucking years ago Someday I'll take a small child down To the last grass-covered hill in my town And say "The whole world was once like this and more" Yeah, the whole world was once like this and more