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