I Think I Shall Never See lyrics

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
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