I Think I Shall Never See — текст песни (The Broadways)

3000 years ago the world was a giant place.
expansive forests untouched lands
skies were for the birds, trees were forever
and natures worst invention had 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 economny grow
my grandparents had never seen a plane,
a skyscraper, or a motor car or a cellphone or 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
the dinosaurs have 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 10 years ago
is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful today"
that was just ten years ago
only ten fuckin` years ago