Year of the Dragon Lyrics

I was born in the year of the dragon

They tell me to marry a rat and not a dog

I live my life sort of fulfilled

But in a half-drawn grey and misty fog

One day I want to break free to the sunlight

And actually make love to the hot soul of the sun

I want to be one with the universe

I want to be one with you and the earth

And the earth

I sit outside with some trees and a meadow

And I wonder where we are going so fast

Everyone wonders why we are going so fast

No one can tell you where we are going so fast

Unexplained questions remain in my mind

Unexplained questions remain in my mind

And a person with answers I cannot find

So I walk out into the star-filled night

And I look up at the sky which is so bright

And the moon rises on the horizon

And I ask myself

Why are we taking this poison

The moon watches us

I'm glad we don't go up there anymore

Because it would be black

From all the things the chemical companies would attack

We destroy all we find

Yours can't be bigger than mine

Drilling for oil that maybe we'll find

Meanwhile the trees and the animal die

Tell me why

Tell me why

Tell me why

There has to be a god damn reason why

Are we that stupid to take our home and trade it for nothing

Are we that stupid to take our home and trade it for nothing

Hey let's build a house and use the pieces of the house for heat

Until there is nothing left and we die

In the wilderness of stupidity

Ha

And they call us civilized

They call us civilized

Call us civilized

This place would stand one hundred trillion years if not for us

We have betrayed a sacred trust

Can't you understand

Man

He destroys all he finds and gives nothing back

We gotta get back on track

We gotta get back on track

We must go back, back, back, back

Back to a place when we could live with the earth

When we could live with the Earth and not destroy

When we could live with the Earth and be a friend

When we could live with it

Bleed it in the end and everything dies

Bleed it in the end and everything dies

We will all wonder why everything died

No one will remember why everything died

Everything dies