(ethereal music)
(shimmering)
(guitar strumming begins)
(harmonized vocalizing)
♪ The sky was light
and the land all dark ♪
♪ The sun rose up over Central Park ♪
♪ I was walking home from work, Gaia ♪
♪ The petal sky and rosy dawn ♪
♪ World turning on the burning sun ♪
♪ Sacred wet green one
that we live on, Gaia ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Run, run, run, run said the automobile ♪
♪ And it ran, run for your
life, take to your heels ♪
♪ Foolish school of fish on wheels, Gaia ♪
♪ Turn away from your animal kind ♪
♪ Try to leave your body
just to live in your mind ♪
♪ Leave your cold cruel
mother Earth behind, Gaia ♪
♪ As if you were your own creation ♪
♪ As if you were the chosen nation ♪
♪ And the world around you ♪
♪ Just a rude and
dangerous invasion, yeah ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Someone's got to stop us now ♪
♪ Save us from us, Gaia ♪
♪ No one's gonna stop us now ♪
(guitar solo)
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ So we thought we oughta walk a while ♪
♪ And we left that town in single file ♪
♪ Up and up and up ♪
♪ Mile after mile after mile ♪
♪ We reach the treeline
and I drop my pack ♪
♪ Sat down on my haunches
and I looked back down ♪
♪ Over the mountain ♪
♪ Helpless and breathless
and speechless, ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Gaia ♪
♪ Pray for the forest, pray to the trees ♪
♪ Pray for the fish in the deep blue sea ♪
♪ Pray for yourself and for God's sake ♪
♪ Say one for me, yeah ♪
♪ Poor wretched unbeliever ♪
♪ Someone's got to stop us now ♪
♪ Save us from us, Gaia ♪
♪ No one's gonna stop us now ♪
(applause and cheering)
