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von Adel Tawil

1) The great powers are building large bombs again
Obscure men filling their black accounts
Mountains of plastics drifting across contaminated oceans
And rain forests are changing to scorched earth

2) Kids with guns and a sky full of drones
The old hate is returning with new slogans
The world is drying up, in an environment overflooded by people
Who are still fighting today for oil. and for water tomorrow

3) And I actually thought
That we were already a large step ahead
And I just realize now
How I'm nearly getting desperate

4) I haven't read the Bible
Don't have the Koran with me
But when I'm watching all this
God, please stand by me!


5) Haven't heard the Thora
Didn't have time for Buddha
But when I'm watching all this
God. please stand by me
God, dear God, please stand by me!

6) Poisonous food wrapped in bright colors
Secret computers storing monitoring data
Our animals quietly moving on to new worlds
We are taking pills that really won't help

7) We are still thinking to be too different
Afraid to be ashamed, people must love secretly
As from here, just a storm of comments prevails
Which instinctively might tell you the truth

(Wiederholung Vers 3-5)


8) At least forty people have lost their lives
During several attacks in Paris tonight
The horror continues for the people in Aleppo
By salvaging dead bodies.
And we will make America great again!
Germany is a strong country!
We've done so much, we'll succeed
It is getting warmer in our world
And therefore the ice of the arctic seas is melting
An accumulation of plastic waste
As big as the entire Europe
Don't people simply feel like
Walking to the big dustbin right away?

Millions of liters crude oil polluting the environment
Which could end up in disaster
So serious, that it might destroy ourselves

And I actually thought
That we were already a large step ahead
And I just realize now
How I'm nearly getting desperate

(Wiederholung 2 x Vers 4+5)