I wanna be better than oxygen

So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees

I wanna speak louder than Ritalin

For all the children who think that they've got a disease

I wanna be cooler than tv

For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be

We can be stronger than bombs

If you're singing along and you know that you really believe

We can be richer than industry

As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need

We can speak louder than ignorance

Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet



On and on, and on, and on it goes

The world it just keeps spinning

Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe

So close my eyes and start again anew



Sometimes at night the evening noons follows after me

Waits for me there in the window beside my bed

And dad watches like a shadow of apathy

‘Cause fear is a weapon it keeps me from looking ahead

Until I whisper

Just as these blankets cover me

The future is meant to be

Nothing can stop it's a fact

I look for heroes and my search for identity

And none of them seemed to be quite what they want me to think 

They put together just like parts in a factory

They built personalities and sells them on tv

I go and meditate for days in my closet

To shut out these profits

Who show me the ways how I should be



On and on, and on, and on it goes

The world it just keeps spinning

Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe

So close my eyes and start again anew



If i'm afraid to catch a dream

I weave your baskets and i'll float them down the river stream

Each one i weave with words i speak to carry love to your relief



I wanna be better than oxygen

So you can breathe when you're drowning and weak in the knees

I wanna speak louder than Ritalin

For all the children who think that they've got a disease

I wanna be cooler than t.v.

For all the kids that are wondering what they are going to be

We can be stronger than bombs

If you're singing along and you know that you really believe

We can be richer than industry

As long as we know that there's things that we don't really need

We can speak louder than ignorance

Cause we speak in silence every time our eyes meet



On and on, and on, and on it goes

The world it just keeps spinning

Until i'm dizzy, time to breathe

So close my eyes and start again anew