Look at the Water Now (Awakening)

What has man kind done to our greatest resource on our planet?

Look at the water now

Tell me what we’ve done

We made it cloudy now

Film across the surface

Plastic in the reeds

Oil beneath the current

A bottle by the bank

A dead fish in the shallows

Every careless hand

Left another mark below

We called it progress

While the river lost its name

Now every breath we take

Carries some of what we changed

All the filth makes it harder now

Harder to see what was living below

Clear blue waters seem distant now

Like a memory nobody knows

Earth’s children, we made the world darker now

Hands full of dust from the damage we sowed

Look at the water now

Look at the water now

The creek used to run cold

Over stones you could count

Now the rain pulls a brown line

Through the fields and the town

We built walls around the wetlands

Cut roots for another road

Then wondered why the summer heat

Had nowhere else to go

We called it progress

While the river lost its name

Now every breath we take

Carries some of what we changed

All the filth makes it harder now

Harder to see what was living below

Clear blue waters seem distant now

Like a memory nobody knows

Earth’s children, we made the world darker now

Hands full of dust from the damage we sowed

Look at the water now

Look at the water now

But there’s a seed beneath the pavement

There’s a spring under the stone

If we stop feeding the fire

Maybe water finds its home

Pick the waste up from the shoreline

Let the marsh breathe again

The future isn’t clean by wishing

It begins with what we mend

All the filth made it harder then

But we can clear what we poured in the flow

Clear blue waters won’t stay distant then

If we give the river room to grow

Earth’s children, let’s make the world brighter now

Hands in the soil, turn the damage around

Look at the water now

We can change the water now

Look at the water now

Don’t turn away

What we return to the earth

Returns someday