Have I Left Anything Out?

Have you ever been To a nice country party or a real fine street fair Some day it's gonna be like that all the time everywhere We could have a party every week out on the block Close off the street and enjoy the crowd Dancin all over, there be no reason to talk Anyway the music be much too loud Every evening at six o'clock Whole town walk around the square No rival factions, no big attractions The people will be the reason to be there In the outlying districts there'll be music everywhere No one will feel out of it unless they really want to There'll be no commercially-inspired loneliness to haunt you Entrance to places of entertainment will be free So you can wander in and out and dig new sounds All this will come to be because Entertainers will be on salary But they gotta clean up their own coffee grounds! Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out? There are ways to make this world a place to live in But we are told it's out of reach and we should give in We could surely win a world where all would be benevolence If only those who live for dollars Had a lick of common sense First thing got to be put right Woman gonna walk free in the street at night Any part of town, any time of day Any man cause trouble better kneel and pray And people gonna smile and say hello when they go by Without fear of assault for sex race creed or greed And we won't have to worry bout people ripping us off Cause in general, we'll be getting what we need And there won't be nobody hoarding no money Cause there won't be any (Money) All necessities will be free Many luxuries will not be existing Though some will be abundant While others will be regarded as redundant Everybody will be learning everything That anybody ever wanted to know Everybody will be going everywhere That anybody ever wanted to go Anyone who wants to can engage in foreign travel Foreign languages we'll learn But we'll have no more foreign wars Countries will remain still very different from each other But not so separate, just a lot more equal Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out? There are ways to make this world a place to live in But we are told it's out of reach and we should give in We could surely win a world where all would be benevolence If only those who live for dollars Had a lick of common sense Four hours a week should take care of the garden Leavin another three for work in the factory Because you see our needs will be fewer When we convert from consumer to doer But of course no one will work by the hour We'll just work until the work at hand is done Because for bread of course you must have flour But for life, you must have fun Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out? I'm trying to tell you, we can win a world that's fair I can prove it, lotta these things already been done Here and there So let's get together and try for something better Big square buildings used to stand all around Most of them by now been taken down They were full of boring papers and boring days it's true They cost too much to heat and light And they blocked off the view And while we're at it, it might be wise To cut our cities down to size Take out half the houses, let the gardens grow The grass would be greener, the city would slow Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out? You don't have to believe it, but take a look around There's a lotta people who really care When we get some of this other shit out of the way We're gonna stop fighting and learn to share There will still be different kinds of people, oh yes Each with their own favorite neighborhoods But the rich people won't all live up on the hill Cos there won't be no rich people hoarding all the goods No more miners spending days in a dark hole Getting brown lung trying to get some black coal People lift their faces to the sun Knowing that they can rely on this one And everything will be made more effecient By the elimination of all kinds of waste No more wasted energy on wasted products Made for artificially expensive taste Billboards will all be repainted With different people's ideas of how to have fun There'll be no more need for advertising All the advertising will already have been done A lot less cars, a lot less bars Less time in stores, more time outdoors Let's not be fools, there will be schools But when the reason for the living Is to laugh like gods above Then the reason for the learning Will be learning how to love Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out?