Have I Left Anything Out?

Have you ever been
To a nice country party or a real fine street fair
Some day it's gonna be like that all the time everywhere
We could have a party every week out on the block
Close off the street and enjoy the crowd
Dancin all over, there be no reason to talk
Anyway the music be much too loud

Every evening at six o'clock
Whole town walk around the square
No rival factions, no big attractions
The people will be the reason to be there
In the outlying districts there'll be music everywhere
No one will feel out of it unless they really want to
There'll be no commercially-inspired loneliness to haunt you

Entrance to places of entertainment will be free
So you can wander in and out and dig new sounds
All this will come to be because
Entertainers will be on salary
But they gotta clean up their own coffee grounds!

Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out?

There are ways to make this world a place to live in
But we are told it's out of reach and we should give in
We could surely win a world where all would be benevolence
If only those who live for dollars
Had a lick of common sense

First thing got to be put right
Woman gonna walk free in the street at night
Any part of town, any time of day
Any man cause trouble better kneel and pray
And people gonna smile and say hello when they go by
Without fear of assault for sex race creed or greed
And we won't have to worry bout people ripping us off
Cause in general, we'll be getting what we need
And there won't be nobody hoarding no money
Cause there won't be any (Money)
All necessities will be free
Many luxuries will not be existing
Though some will be abundant
While others will be regarded as redundant

Everybody will be learning everything
That anybody ever wanted to know
Everybody will be going everywhere
That anybody ever wanted to go
Anyone who wants to can engage in foreign travel
Foreign languages we'll learn
But we'll have no more foreign wars
Countries will remain still very different from each other
But not so separate, just a lot more equal

Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out?

There are ways to make this world a place to live in
But we are told it's out of reach and we should give in
We could surely win a world where all would be benevolence
If only those who live for dollars
Had a lick of common sense

Four hours a week should take care of the garden
Leavin another three for work in the factory
Because you see our needs will be fewer
When we convert from consumer to doer
But of course no one will work by the hour
We'll just work until the work at hand is done
Because for bread of course you must have flour
But for life, you must have fun

Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out?

I'm trying to tell you, we can win a world that's fair
I can prove it, lotta these things already been done
Here and there
So let's get together and try for something better

Big square buildings used to stand all around
Most of them by now been taken down
They were full of boring papers and boring days it's true
They cost too much to heat and light
And they blocked off the view
And while we're at it, it might be wise
To cut our cities down to size
Take out half the houses, let the gardens grow
The grass would be greener, the city would slow

Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out?

You don't have to believe it, but take a look around
There's a lotta people who really care
When we get some of this other shit out of the way
We're gonna stop fighting and learn to share

There will still be different kinds of people, oh yes
Each with their own favorite neighborhoods
But the rich people won't all live up on the hill
Cos there won't be no rich people hoarding all the goods

No more miners spending days in a dark hole
Getting brown lung trying to get some black coal
People lift their faces to the sun
Knowing that they can rely on this one
And everything will be made more effecient
By the elimination of all kinds of waste
No more wasted energy on wasted products
Made for artificially expensive taste

Billboards will all be repainted
With different people's ideas of how to have fun
There'll be no more need for advertising
All the advertising will already have been done

A lot less cars, a lot less bars
Less time in stores, more time outdoors
Let's not be fools, there will be schools
But when the reason for the living
Is to laugh like gods above
Then the reason for the learning
Will be learning how to love

Ain't that what life's about? Have I left anything out?