There's a question mark above this world
And a doubt in every head alive
No more do we take for granted
That we were meant to survive
There's wayward children in the street
Fighting for an hours pleasure
Who will live to be an aged parent
When a button pressed is the final gesture?
There's a greedy man who guards his treasure
Hoarded in an ornate box
With rabid dogs and electric fences
To halt the tide of have nots
We've all seen the seedy side of progress
The young kids forced to work the streets
The open sewers we once called rivers
The knee deep garbage on the beach
Only the bravest men father children
To such a temporary world
If we don't explode we'll surely strangle
The life from this once perfect world
credits
from Songs for The Mother,
released February 8, 2022
Written and performed by Stephen Lake
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