Watching the parade on the news last night
Where everything feels like it's crumbling
Like the writings on the wall
and then the fruit is gathered
It always was and always will
Stay strong and heed the call
I hope it matters to you.
Concrete action, reconciliation,
build it strong and give it purpose.
Stop complaining, look at nurses,
In a fine open cut nation,
blinded by the infant need.
Whose appetite is never filled,
whose ap petite is never filled.
Till every living thing is killed
A selfish fuse to fight for more
And a planet smashing, selfish world
To that world that's in the sky
To reprise Dante's in fernal world
Across a windswept open plain
Some still go against the grain
the opulence and subtle sneakin'
breakin' bread at the riverbank
Washin' nappies at the water tank
Happy clappy days are numb,
the motions cost us nearly
Years of self -absorption,
gadgets that can't save our world
But one side has an excavator,
the other has a wooden spoon
Self -centered sick celebrities
It is obvious and glorious,
A tameness monster once and for all,
name it, shame it, rearrange it
So the dream becomes the real
and we can feel and we can see
we can dream and we can see
Do you rise and take the night
I've looking for a way to say
No one's ever seen this track of time
And it was reaching out to me
Now in this moment we oppose it,
we'll deplore it, we'll rebuke
Re -imagine, re -compose,
make it happen now, make it close
Cos there is dignity, there is hope, says
There is light at the end of the road,
There is dignity, there is hope, says
There is light at the end of the road, yeah
There is dignity, there hope, yeah
There is light at the end of the road
