Along the banks of twisted steel The choking smoke black foundries reel The dirty river flows down to the sea Past the warehouse waterfronts The vacant lots, the auto dumps There's just an ugly scar where beauty used to be
We walk the moon so reassured But the common cold it can't be cured Have we really come that far When we look at where we are Send all the rockets into space I wanna live in a different place Money for another war When we don't even know who lives next door
A brave new world keeps marching on Till all the ignorance is gone But each giant step's just a footprint in the sand Beneath the towers of glass and steel We forgot how to think, we forgot how to feel Were barely crawling, but how we try to stand
