VISITED A PLACE
If you stop and listen...
You can hear a crying earth
With all of life's trivial things
It can be hard to measure worth
I visited a place
That used to be a forest
A little girl made a puzzled face
No one else noticed the problem
She represented brutal honesty
My God, I thought they'd outlawed it
Yet when she looked back at me
I turned away like I never saw it
I cleared all those trees myself
For you see that I am a logger
As each one falls what grows is my wealth
Now that land's a factory of her father's
If you stop and listen...
You can hear a crying earth
With all of life's trivial things
It can be hard to measure worth
I visited a place
That used to have a garden
Back before the bombs fell down
And all this crumbling decay started
I used to be able to sleep at night
But lately I've been having problems
I used to think things would be all right
There are so many evils out there
And by myself I just can't stop 'em
Do we really think we're going to find
The hands of the clock unwind
If so many people just like me and you
Say we have something more important to do
Can't change the world by wishing only by trying
If you stop and listen...
You can hear a crying earth
With all of life's trivial things
It can be hard to measure worth
I visited a place… I visited a place…
I visited a place… I visited a place…
I visited a place that could have been my Eden
If only I had spoken up but unfortunately I didn't
I let myself fall back asleep
Until now I kept my nightmare hidden
I visited a place that no longer exists
If only we had woken up...
It would never have ended up like this