Once upon a time this place
Was very different to today
And so tomorrow we won't recognise
Our home in many ways
I think destiny's a cop out of responsibility
It seems that apathy will always be
Our greatest enemy
The present echoes of tobacco fields
Forgotten but still heard
The voice of money of which men who rule
Still hang on every word
The worthy struggle of a suffragette
The planet to inspire
We're finding it too easy to forget
What's hanging on a wire
What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow
That which once united us to be
More than just an animal
All invested in the same belief
No matter how intangible
So too our modern modes of unity
World Wide Web of instancy
Could yet come to set us all apart
Powerless in ecstasy
What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow
In a world built on yesterdays
Some hard to recall
We've to look upon our open wounds
If they're to heal at all
I find it hard to see when I hear
Anyone say
This bird can fly some other day
What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow
What takes so many lifetimes to show
Takes barely a lifetime to know
It takes only a lifetime to grow
