Social Outcasts - Year of the Dragon

I was born in the year of the dragon
They tell me to marry a rat and not a dog
I live my life sort of fulfilled
But in a half-drawn grey and misty fog
One day I want to break free to the sunlight
And actually make love to the hot soul of the sun
I want to be one with the universe
I want to be one with you and the earth
And the earth
I sit outside with some trees and a meadow
And I wonder where we are going so fast
Everyone wonders why we are going so fast
No one can tell you where we are going so fast
Unexplained questions remain in my mind
Unexplained questions remain in my mind
And a person with answers I cannot find
So I walk out into the star-filled night
And I look up at the sky which is so bright
And the moon rises on the horizon
And I ask myself
Why are we taking this poison
The moon watches us
I'm glad we don't go up there anymore
Because it would be black
From all the things the chemical companies would attack
We destroy all we find
Yours can't be bigger than mine
Drilling for oil that maybe we'll find
Meanwhile the trees and the animal die
Tell me why
Tell me why
Tell me why
There has to be a god damn reason why
Are we that stupid to take our home and trade it for nothing
Are we that stupid to take our home and trade it for nothing
Hey let's build a house and use the pieces of the house for heat
Until there is nothing left and we die
In the wilderness of stupidity
Ha
And they call us civilized
They call us civilized
Call us civilized
This place would stand one hundred trillion years if not for us
We have betrayed a sacred trust
Can't you understand
Man
He destroys all he finds and gives nothing back
We gotta get back on track
We gotta get back on track
We must go back, back, back, back
Back to a place when we could live with the earth
When we could live with the Earth and not destroy
When we could live with the Earth and be a friend
When we could live with it
Bleed it in the end and everything dies
Bleed it in the end and everything dies
We will all wonder why everything died
No one will remember why everything died
Everything dies

Written by:
Richard Veil

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