3000 years ago the world was a giant place.
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expansive forests untouched lands
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skies were for the birds, trees were forever
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and natures worst invention had yet to form a plan
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but our population grew
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and with it grew ambition and desire to conquer all we can
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own what we cannot, throw the unnecessary away
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today only 5% of the forests in our country exist
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of what there was just 200 years ago
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and beautiful feats of nature formed
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by thousands of years of patient practice
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are destroyed without a second thought for "precious" resources
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that will make the economny grow
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my grandparents had never seen a plane,
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a skyscraper, or a motor car or a cellphone or tv
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my parents worked so hard to destroy the gifts given to us
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now my grandchildren will never see a tree
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someday i'll take a small child
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down to the last grass covered hill in my town
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and say "the whole world was once like this and more"
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but words and photographs won't make them understand
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the dinosaurs have been around for thousands of more
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years than we could ever hope to be
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and isn't it ironic we're the ones destroying earth
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instead of the planet killing me
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a friend of mine used to deep sea dive
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but he doesn't do it anymore
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he gets tears in his eyes when you ask him why and says
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"the ugliest stretch of ocean floor 10 years ago
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is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful today"
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that was just ten years ago
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only ten fuckin' years ago
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I Think I Shall Never See
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| The Broadways |
