the hopes and promises are all for show.
The counterculture freaked you out
so you brewed us a subtle sleeping draught.
We took it quietly, without a fight.
But now we know that just ain't right.
Action, not words can spark the flame.
People today refuse to take the blame.
We need to open our ears and ask the world,
get rid of borders and flags unfurled.
"Everyone has so much to say"
People to fool and masks on display.
Who in the world do we think we are
to have the biggest house, the fastest car?
"Money ain't got no heart and money ain't got no
soul"
Can't always be a "Big Shot" in the words of Billy
Joel.
Wealth isn't measured by selling our fears,
just the respect we earn from our peers.
Open your eyes and look around.
If you're not lost you cant be found.
The wind and trees speak soft to you
they tell you what you ought to do.
Take control and change your ways
"The worlds a stage", you write the plays.
For once in your life, open your mind,
help each other, be loving and kind.
Cause no one's as perfect as they appear.
We all got anger, we all got tears.
The hippies that you sent to war
didn't even know what they were fighting for.
They wanted freedom, equal rights.
They wanted peaceful days and nights.
Listen to the young, listen to the bold.
I think it's time we break the mold.
We've pulled the shades off of our face
there is no gender, age, or race.
We're together, one and all,
"together we stand, divided we fall."
This duality will kill us now.
We can't survive, we don't know how.
Now we speak in one strong voice.
You made us choose, we made our choice.
We won't take any more of your lies.
If one person's saved, a hundred more die.
And now we won't go back to sleep
We've seen our families, seen them weep.
You can't stop us now, our road is slopin'
Our eyes are open, our eyes are open.
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