So much happens in a persons lifetime You can't control what's bigger than you You can see what's happening, you can clench your fist But don't have any hope just because you know what's true When we completely ignore our environment, because it only costs A poor broken planet, filthy, bleeding and torn The clock is just ticking faster, time is running out What will we leave then, to the ones unborn I am just a small person in this big world Tell me what is needed for us to wake up Do we want to continue being trampled on by mammon Do we want to continue to be trampled on by greed Do we want a world like this Do I want a world like this No...no... No...no... We engage in heavy poaching to satisfy our hunger for money We are destroying the beautiful Amazon rainforest for gold We use Mountaintop removal just to get some more coal Today 40 percent of the Earth's surface is destroyed and sold We are destroying our world... I am just a small person in this big world Tell me what is needed for us to wake up Do we want to continue being trampled on by mammon Do we want to continue to be trampled on by greed Do we want a world like this Do I want a world like this No...no... No...no... "Since I was born in the 60's, more than 130 000 species in the nature of the world have become extinct! Our proud and beautiful forests are being replaced by clear-cuttings! The impacts on the world's oceans are acute due to extreme warming, acidification, plastic pollution and overfishing! The ices at the poles are melting, sea levels are rising faster and faster! We have massive pollution that is destroying our air, our water, our atmosphere.! What do we do about this? What?! We drill for even more oil!" We are destroying our world... I am just a small person in this big world Tell me what is needed for us to wake up Do we want to continue being trampled on by mammon Do we want to continue to be trampled on by greed Do we want a world like this Do I want a world like this No...no... No...no... No...no...
