It Still Matters Songtext
von Peter Garrett

Watching the parade on the news last night
I was one that walked that road before
Where everything feels like it′s crumbling
Like the writing's on the wall

But dreams are broken mended and they scatter
Like seeds they fall and then the fruit is gathered
It always was and always will
Be a struggle to fulfill
Stay strong and heed the call

It still matters to me
I hope it matters to you

First principles
Concrete faction, reconciliation
No more talk, fix the system
Build it strong and give it purpose
Stop complaining, look at nurses
No material privation


In the fine open cut nation
Blinded by the infinite need
Whose appetite is never filled
Whose appetite is never filled
Till every living thing is killed
A selfish few still fight for more
In a planet-smashing selfish war
We all take an escalator to that
Woolies in the sky

To reprise Dante′s Inferno
No longer in disguise

Across the windswept open plain
Some still go against the grain
Against the waste, the opulence
And subtle sneaking, creeping up on you
Breaking bread at the riverbank
Washing nappies at the water tank
Happy clappy days are numbered
Tumbler, grinder, drag you under

Mixed emotions cost us dearly
Years of self-absorption really
Electric car and white gazebos
Gadgets that can't save our world
When one side has an excavator
The other has a wooden spoon
Self-centered sick celebrities
Are crowding out the room


It is obvious, inglorious
Self-evident, laborious
To tame this monster once and for all
Name it, shame it, rearrange it
So the dream becomes the real
And we can feel and we can see
The dream becomes the real
We can dream and we can see

We all take an escalator to that
Woolies in the sky
To reprise Dante's Inferno
No longer in disguise

We all take an escalator to that
Woolies in the sky
To reprise Dante′s Inferno
No longer in disguise

I remember years ago
In the city so and so
City′s trapped eternity
It was reaching out for me

I remember years ago
In the city so and so
City's trapped eternity
It was reaching out for me

Now in this moment we oppose it
We′ll deplore it, we'll repose it
Reimagine, recompose
Make it happen now, make it close

′Cause this is dignity, this is hope
Says there is light at the end of the road
There is dignity, there is hope
Says there is light at the end of the road
This is dignity, this is hope
Says there is light at the end of the road

It still matters to me
I hope it matters to you
It still matters to me
I hope it matters to you
It really matters to me
I hope it matters to you
It still matters to me
I hope it matters to you