(If we keep going at the rate we going)
This old world is gonna change
Ev'ry things will seem so strange
Rivers and trees and blue skies
Are gonna fade and just become memories
It's time we start thinking 'bout the way we live
And quit abusing the air we breathe
And ev'rybody should become aware
that we are children of the earth,
of the earth, of the earth.
Flowers will bloom if we let them, let them;
we'll see a brighter day
and know that there is hope.
We are the children of the earth.
(If we keep going at the rate we going)
Young people gonna be fighting the wars
around the world and in the streets
many good men gonna be cut down
never to fade, never to know the reason why
We got to learn to keep the peace
and work to reconciliate
grow enough food to feed all the people
and not to exploit the earth for profits sake,
of the earth, of the earth.
Children will learn if we let them, let them;
that war will scorch the earth
and every one will lose.
We are children of the earth.
We are children of the Earth.