Think Before You Drink

As a child I had no knowledge

No way to understand

My father kept me sheltered

He would hold me in his hand

You know I was protected

With no threat from anywhere

I drank my mother’s milk

And I didn’t have a care

But it didn’t last forever

I was soon sent off to school

Where the teachers gave me poison

And I drank it like a fool

We took pride in our past

What our leaders said they fought for

To justify the murders

Of the children in the war

They said that mother nature

Couldn’t give us what we need

And that explained the factories

And pollution in the stream

They gave us all the facts

Explaining economic war

And like a fool I listened

But I won’t listen anymore

So before the final slaughter

Please stop and think

You can lead a horse to water

But you cannot make it drink

So before the final slaughter

Please stop and think

You can lead a horse to water

But you cannot make it drink