I Think I Shall Never See Lyrics - Singles - Broadways

3000 years ago the world was a giant place. 

expansive forests untouched lands 

skies were for the birds, trees were forever 

and natures worst invention had yet to form a plan 

but our population grew 

and with it grew ambition and desire to conquer all we can 

own what we cannot, throw the unnecessary away 

today only 5% of the forests in our country exist 

of what there was just 200 years ago 

and beautiful feats of nature formed 

by thousands of years of patient practice 

are destroyed without a second thought for "precious" resources 

that will make the economny grow 

my grandparents had never seen a plane, 

a skyscraper, or a motor car or a cellphone or tv 

my parents worked so hard to destroy the gifts given to us 

now my grandchildren will never see a tree 

someday i'll take a small child 

down to the last grass covered hill in my town 

and say "the whole world was once like this and more" 

but words and photographs won't make them understand 

the dinosaurs have been around for thousands of more 

years than we could ever hope to be 

and isn't it ironic we're the ones destroying earth 

instead of the planet killing me 

a friend of mine used to deep sea dive 

but he doesn't do it anymore 

he gets tears in his eyes when you ask him why and says 

"the ugliest stretch of ocean floor 10 years ago 

is a thousand times more beautiful than the most beautiful today" 

that was just ten years ago 

only ten fuckin' years ago