Come gather 'round people, wherever you are,

and admit that the waters around you have grown

And accept that soon, you'll be dreched to the bone

If this whole world to you is worth saving

then you'd better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone

Cause the times they are a changing



I'm choking there's no air to breathe, all these chemicals are poisoning me

I feel like I ain't got no space, I got to get out of this place

Cause everybody's moving to fast, all I want to do is relax

I don't want no heart attack, don't wanna work 'til I break my back no

I don't wanna see no more construction, to me it looks more like destruction

Just want to protect Her and all She's done, She has provided for everyone so



Step lightly, you are trodding on sacred ground

Step lightly, there is beauty to be found, look all around

Step lightly, for you don't wanna leave a scar

Step lightly, or for your children this will be no more



The buildings just keep getting taller, open spaces dem a getting smaller

They're building more universities, and destroying diversity

But where will all the little animals run, to find shelter from the burning sun

If we let them cut down all the trees, and spread their industrial disease

Have they heard the ocean so deep, or witnessed the waterfalls weep

Do you think that they could be so blind, to bring the end of humankind



Yeah, oh yeah

Oh Mama, Oh Mama



Oh Mama, I see that You're bleeding

Oh Mama, I feel Your pain in my soul

Mama I will do my best to teach them

Mama not to hurt You so

I see them use You, see every day how they abuse You

Oh Lord how they break You, see every day how they rape You



Step lightly, you are trodding on sacred ground

Step lightly, there is beauty to be found, look all around

Step lightly, for you don't wanna leave a scar

Step lightly, or for your children this will be no more



They're cutting down the forests, filling up the landfills

Blackening the skyline, choking out the sun

'Til there's nothing left but garbage, steel, concrete and sorrow

People this doesn't have to be our tomorrow

If you listen closely, you will hear Her crying

Do you even care that She is slowly dying

We got to make a change now, if not for yourself then do it for your children



Who can deny that things have been getting so strange around here

And who can deny that it's been getting harder and harder and harder to breathe

And who can deny that the species have been disappearing by the dozens, daily

And who can deny that it's been getting hotter and colder and hotter and colder every year

They're sucking the blood of the Earth

They're scratching at the heart of Mama Earth

They're fracturing the body of Mama Earth

They're sucking the blood of the Earth

And we all play a part in their plan

We all play a part, overstand

We all let them lead us by the hand

And watch as they destroy our homeland, yeah yeah, our Motherland



And who will stand up

Oh who will stand with me and fight