Do you know the cost
of future misery
Have you lost your
sense of sustainability
We are just a step away
From realizing what
we strive to be
But we've got to break out
From this insulated
blind and lame senility
Wake up the new america wo oh
Transcend the mass
hysteria wo oh
Change is the thing you're
wary of wo oh
We need a new america wo oh
<Interlude>
Laurels, human triumph
Bestowments from the past
Victories don't mean a thing
If they don't last
We are just marching
toward extinction
With blinders on our eyes
Jeopardizing everything
We've learned
and come to realize
You call that wise
Open your eyes america wo oh
See through the lies
they tell to us wo oh
Confront the fears
that worry us wo oh
We need a new america wo oh
We don't have to be
afraid to re invent
We've got to start to build
Progress and implement
For when we take our fill
And never pay the price
We only build ourselves
A fleeting, false paradise
<Interlude>
You can live in staunch denial
And mark me as your enemy
But I'm just a voice among
the throng
Who want a brighter destiny
They say with me
We are the new america wo oh
This is the new america Wo oh
We are the new america wo oh
This is the new america Wo oh
cked down
and they put you first in line
And so you finally ask yourself
just how big you are
and take your place in a wiser
world of bigger motor cars
<Intelrude>
So Where the hell was Biggles
when you needed him
last Saturday
And where were all the sportsmen
who always pulled you though
They're all resting down
in Cornwall
writing up their memoirs
for a paper-back edition
of the Boy Scout Manual
See there! A man born