For the Children

Lyrics

CHORUS:

Do what’s right for the children.  Don’t abandon them along the way.  The ripples that come back from leaving them behind will be more than anyone can pay.

Last time through the chorus add to the end:  The ripples that come back from leaving them behind would swell in tidal waves of loss, at such a tragic cost, so much more than anyone can pay.

VERSES:

Hear the call, hear the call, don’t just turn away./ Children are looking up to you./ They must live in this world/After we are gone/We must hold the longer view, and…CHORUS

Forests call, rivers call, all voices of the land,/All of life is crying out to you./ “Leave to us a living world/After you are gone,/You must hold the longer view”, and…CHORUS

Birds and bees, fish and trees, from greatest to the small,/All of life is linked inside of you./Waken now, heal now, lift your living eyes,/We must hold the longer view, and…CHORUS

Hand to hand, heart to heart, stewards of the Earth,/It all just comes down to me and you./We will change, take a stand for what we love the most./We will live the longer view, and CHORUS

Lyrics by Laurence Cole and Deanna Pumplin