I Think I Shall Never See

3000 years ago the world was a giant place.

expansive forests untouched lands

skies were for the birds, trees were forever

and natures worst invention had yet to form a plan

but our population grew

and with it grew ambition and desire to conquer all we can

own what we cannot, throw the unnecessary away

today only 5% of the forests in our country exist

of what there was just 200 years ago

and beautiful feats of nature formed

by thousands of years of patient practice

are destroyed without a second thought for "precious" resources

that will make the economny grow

my grandparents had never seen a plane,

a skyscraper, or a motor car or a cellphone or tv

my parents worked so hard to destroy the gifts given to us

now my grandchildren will never see a tree

someday i'll take a small child

down to the last grass covered hill in my town

and say "the whole world was once like this and more"

but words and photographs won't make them understand

the dinosaurs have been around for thousands of more

years than we could ever hope to be

and isn't it ironic we're the ones destroying earth

instead of the planet killing me

a friend of mine used to deep sea dive

but he doesn't do it anymore

he gets tears in his eyes when you ask him why and says

"the ugliest stretch of ocean floor 10 years ago

is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful today"

that was just ten years ago

only ten fuckin' years ago