Back To the Village

We need to go back to the village
We need to go back to working the land
We need to return to the family circle
Where all that we do is what we understand

We need to get rid of the aeroplane
And take the wheels from the automobiles
Our progress in travel is killing this world
Let's stick with our families and see how it feels

We're killing our world, we're choking it dead
By filling the air with gasses and lead
If we stay in our villages, live with our kin
Maybe we can cleanse things and then we may win

If we could reverse all the notions
Of motors, and stick with the cart and the horse
And undo the invention of flying machines
The way that we live would have to change course

Forced to stay with our community
Unable to say that we need to commute
We'd all have to labour with things that surround us
No need to uproot, no need to pollute

We're killing our world, we're choking it dead
By filling the air with gasses and lead
If we stay in our villages, live with our kin
Maybe we can cleanse things and then we may win

Our modern idea of progress
Business expansion and corporate plan
Is making us think that we all need to travel
No matter the cost to our own fellow man

Let's all pull up the drawbridge
Stay in our villages, work with our own
Do without all the stuff sent from a distance
See if we can live from the seeds that we've sown

We're killing our world, we're choking it dead
By filling the air with gasses and lead
If we stay in our villages, live with our kin
Maybe we can cleanse things and then we may win