Step Lightly

Come gather 'round people, wherever you are,
 and admit that the waters around you have grown
 And accept that soon, you'll be dreched to the bone
 If this whole world to you is worth saving
 then you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone
 Cause the times they are a changing
 I'm choking there's no air to breathe, all these chemicals are poisoning me
 I feel like I ain't got no space, I got to get out of this place
 Cause everybody's moving to fast, all I want to do is relax
 I don't want no heart attack, don't wanna work 'til I break my back no
 I don't wanna see no more construction, to me it looks more like destruction
 Just want to protect Her and all She's done, She has provided for everyone so
 Step lightly, you are trodding on sacred ground
 Step lightly, there is beauty to be found, look all around
 Step lightly, for you don't wanna leave a scar
 Step lightly, or for your children this will be no more
 The buildings just keep getting taller, open spaces dem a getting smaller
 They're building more universities, and destroying diversity
 But where will all the little animals run, to find shelter from the burning sun
 If we let them cut down all the trees, and spread their industrial disease
 Have they heard the ocean so deep, or witnessed the waterfalls weep
 Do you think that they could be so blind, to bring the end of humankind
 Yeah, oh yeah
 Oh Mama, Oh Mama
 Oh Mama, I see that You're bleeding
 Oh Mama, I feel Your pain in my soul
 Mama I will do my best to teach them
 Mama not to hurt You so
 I see them use You, see every day how they abuse You
 Oh Lord how they break You, see every day how they rape You
 Step lightly, you are trodding on sacred ground
 Step lightly, there is beauty to be found, look all around
 Step lightly, for you don't wanna leave a scar
 Step lightly, or for your children this will be no more
 They're cutting down the forests, filling up the landfills
 Blackening the skyline, choking out the sun
 'Til there's nothing left but garbage, steel, concrete and sorrow
 People this doesn't have to be our tomorrow
 If you listen closely, you will hear Her crying
 Do you even care that She is slowly dying
 We got to make a change now, if not for yourself then do it for your children
 Who can deny that things have been getting so strange around here
 And who can deny that it's been getting harder and harder and harder to breathe
 And who can deny that the species have been disappearing by the dozens, daily
 And who can deny that it's been getting hotter and colder and hotter and colder every year
 They're sucking the blood of the Earth
 They're scratching at the heart of Mama Earth
 They're fracturing the body of Mama Earth
 They're sucking the blood of the Earth
 And we all play a part in their plan
 We all play a part, overstand
 We all let them lead us by the hand
 And watch as they destroy our homeland, yeah yeah, our Motherland
 And who will stand up
 Oh who will stand with me and fight