[Intro] [clean electric guitar motif, glitchy drum loop enters] [Male voice with stutter-edit effect] We want to meet our obligation as a generation, as a civilization, as a nation. Which is to create communities for our children. [Verse 1] [bass synth enters] We want to meet our obligation as a generation, as a civilization, as a nation. Which is to create communities for our children That provide them with the same opportunities for dignity and enrichment and prosperity and good health as the communities that our parents gave us. We've got to start by protecting our environmental infrastructure. [vocal chop] To the air we breathe, the water we drink. [vocal chop]The wildlife. The Commons. [Chorus] [full rhythmic arrangement, heavy sub-bass] We've got to start by protecting our environmental infrastructure. Our common environment. Oh, these things are not reducible to private property. They are by their nature the property of all. It's common sense. Commonwealth. The landscapes, the waterways that have connected us to ten thousand generations of human beings that lived before the last five minutes. And that ultimately connects us to God. [Bridge] [guitar motif continues, drums maintain syncopation] God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, Through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, Through wise people, through art, and music, and literature, and poetry. But nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. Detail and grace and color and joy. [Verse 2] [vocal repetition with delay effects] God talks to human beings through many vectors, through each other, Through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, Through wise people, through art, and music, and literature, and poetry. But nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. [Outro] [drums drop out, synth pad fades] To the air we breathe, the water we drink. A wildfire. Common sense. [vocal stutter] To the air we breathe, the water we drink. [vocal stutter] To the air we breathe, the water we drink. Understand who God is and what our own potential is as human beings. [vocal chop] My children are going to grow up in a world where they will never see the kind of explosions of color from butterflies that I saw every time I walked into my garden. Eighty or ninety percent of butterflies are gone. I want to live in a world where our leaders care about these things, talk about these things, and protect these things. [fade out]
