Someday Children

A bee doesn't buzz from her own perspective She feels every wing beat as it thunders in her ears A tree doesn't speak unless he speaks so slowly That he finishes a sentence every hundred years By the time I've sung this song we'll have made a thousand babies Chances are those babies see the next century And eleven billion more will take a look around them And the truth will dawn upon them as they read their history Hey there, children, can you hear that sound It's the silence of the islands and the coastlines drowned It's the sound of a savanna where the lion never roars Some day, children, all this will be yours I go swimming on the reef I don't forget my sunscreen It takes a lot of sunscreen in this hot summer sun And I love to eat my beef, though it outweighs all the mammals In the wild by a factor of fifteen to one I remember when today was in the far, far future Now the far, far future is pounding on the shore If we don't listen now, these troubled times we're going through Are gonna look like paradise in another decade more Hey there, children, can you hear that sound It's the silence of the islands and the coastlines drowned It's the sound of a savanna where the lion never roars Some day, children, all this will be yours Some day, children, all this will be yours A bee doesn't buzz from her own perspective She feels every wingbeat as it thunders in her ears A tree doesn't speak unless he speaks so slowly That he finishes a sentence every hundred years