Dams Are for Beavers

Dams are for Beavers
 Let the wild run free
 Cause I'm a believer
 In humanity
 What did birds do before telephone wires
 Did forests exist before we fought their fires
 I'm a citizen of sand I'm a California choir
 I was raised on songs and moving water
 Raised on rocks in the creek
 Dams are for Beavers
 Let the wild run free
 Cause I'm a believer
 In humanity
 On a river in Nepal there's a woman on the wall
 With a hammer and a harness and a hundred foot fall
 She dams the river and drowns the home
 Her family's been livin' since before she was born
 She keeps pounding away, she makes five fifty a day
 And the work puts food on the table
 Dams are for Beavers
 Let the wild run free
 Cause I'm a believer
 In humanity
 There's a river in Austin that they a call a lake
 And I swear it moves when I really concentrate
 Few people in town can tell which way is down stream
 It makes no difference at least nobody's drowning
 Dammed fifteen times but who's really counting
 At least we have air conditioning
 And oh my god
 We live in this world, we can't run away
 And oh my god
 I've been staring at screen, I ain't been out all day
 And oh my god
 Take me river, take me down to pray
 Dams are for Beavers
 Let the wild run free
 Cause I'm a believer
 In humanity
 Dams are for Beavers
 Let the wild run free-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee
 Cause I'm a believer
 In humanity
 Yeah, I'm a believer
 In humanity