Lost World

Sometimes it seems so long ago
 Those days when I was young
 Yet the taste of yesterday still lingers on my tongue
 These visions of a vanished world
 Compell to explain
 What we have lost to never find again
 There was a time when flowers bloomed
 The air was fresh and clear
 The sunlight was a glory then
 And not something to fear
 The birds would sing the day away
 In trees that grew so green
 We didn't mean to steal that from our children
 In autumn we would walk for hours
 On trails of red and gold
 In spring time all was green an unexpected
 In summer, rivers flowed to sea
 With sparkling fish untold
 And winter brought its snow and rain
 I laugh to think that we complained
 And there were bees, the golden bees
 That you will never know
 And hawks that flew in circles as we walked down below
 We drank from streams, it was no dream
 I swear that it was true
 My God how could we ever let it happen?
 The snows have melted from the peaks
 The river's gone to clay
 The nests are all deserted, the birds have flown away
 The forest's cleared, and disappeared
 Are flowers, fish and tree
 Except within these memories that I offer
 For you who'll never know these things
 I bow my head and cry
 A world long gone to everyone
 With greed; the reason why
 Too much, too soon, too often
 With no thought of days to come
 Too late to bring it back now that we've lost it
 In autumn we would walk for hours on trails of red and gold
 In spring time all was green and unexpected
 In summer rivers flowed to sea
 With sparkling fish untold
 And winter brought its snow and rain
 I laughed to think that we complained
 You mad old fool, I hear you say
 And I can not deny
 It's bound to seem unreal today
 These tales of times gone by
 But thoughtless ones like me, who used it up can still recall
 A world of plenty, lost to us forever