Closer to an Animal

I am a man

You fell down from that apple tree

The other day with me

We had already forgotten

We one day crawled up

From the sea

Imagine now

If we one day could build

A flying contraption and see the world

What if we could somehow

Store knowledge in a cloud

Draw a smiling face on the moon

Find the meaning of life

Riding the crest of our time

With bravado, soon complete

Will we see a new one rise behind us

A new chance, a new world

Our wave

It's about to break

And we're about to dive in the void

It echoes our fall

Our paean to avarice

I think we're closer to an animal

Every day, till we fall...

Can you believe

We have all those eyes high in the sky

And we can now see the world

One thing truly makes me blind

The wisdom of hindsight

The eye in my own hand

Riding the crest of our time

With bravado, soon complete

Will we see a new one rise behind us

A new chance, a new world

I think I'm closer to an animal

Every day, till I fall...

If you want it all

You can have it all

But greed raises oceans too

When the glacier of

Our broken dreams

Melts in your champagne glass

Someone knocks on your door

Four times...

Sand in your hour glass

Every grain is a day falling

Finding it's rightful place

If you want it all

You can have it all

But greed raises oceans too

When the glacier of

Your broken dreams

Melts in your champagne glass

Do we need it all

We can have it all

Our greed will raise oceans soon

And the glacier of

Our human dream

Gone with the champagne glass

In the sea

"I am a man

In the grand scheme of things

Only minutes have passed

Since I crawled up from the sea

But already

I've built a flying contraption

And seen the world

I've drawn a smiley face on the moon

And stored knowledge in a cloud

...What a wonderful gift our mind is.

But why am I using ot

To destroy this beautiful planet...

My only home.

If it defines me, if it makes me a human,

I need to get closer to my inner animal."