Big Machines

Prairie fires and thunderstorms The bigger the threats before our time Rolling amber waves of grain Across the nation far and wide This home of the free - land of opportunity Don't throw it all away - unless you're throwing toxic waste And dawn awakes the big machines Big cats plow the woodlands clean - How long Crash! The mighty timber falls Hear the frightened lone wolf call Hand of greed may take it all - How long Big drills tap the nation dry A tanker spills Alaskan pride - How long History books show placid scenes Of bison roaming free and wild We're taught the way it used to be Turn the page my frightened child Because this home of the free - land of opportunity Exposed to tears of pain - drenched again in acid rain! And dawn awakes the big machines Big cats plow the woodlands clean - How long Crash! The mighty timber falls Hear the frightened lone wolf call Hand of greed may take it all - How long Big drills tap the nation dry A tanker spills Alaskan pride - How long Now toxic fires touch ozone skies Migrating birds get lost in flight Industries build war machines As foreign tensions multiply Now this home of the free - land of opportunity Becomes what it creates Machines that choke this human race And dawn awakes the big machines And big cats plow the woodlands clean - How long Crash! The mighty timber falls Hear the frightened lone wolf call Hand of greed may take it all - How long Big drills tap the nation dry As a tanker spills Alaskan pride - How long Now put to sleep your big machines Shut down poison factories And make good use of gasoline Pour it on your war machines Blow it all to smithereens