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10,000 Years (Peace Is Now) Lyrics
The world is burning down
Can't you smell the smoke in the air?
War, disease, and famine
This demon, she is everywhere
.
Poets and preachers and politicians
They've all had their say
And we got 10,000 years
Devoted to nothing
But tomorrow and yesterday
.
If all of the ignorance in the world
Passes a second ago
What would you say?
Who would you obey?
I am here to say that
.
Peace is now
.
Mr. President
I hereby pardon you of all your crimes
For they are just as much mine
.
Selfishness and separation have led me
To believe that the world is not my problem
The world is not my problem
I am the world
And you are the world
.
If all of the ignorance in the world
Passes a second ago
What would you say?
Who would you obey?
I am here to say that
.
Peace is now
Can't you smell the smoke in the air?
War, disease, and famine
This demon, she is everywhere
.
Poets and preachers and politicians
They've all had their say
And we got 10,000 years
Devoted to nothing
But tomorrow and yesterday
.
If all of the ignorance in the world
Passes a second ago
What would you say?
Who would you obey?
I am here to say that
.
Peace is now
.
Mr. President
I hereby pardon you of all your crimes
For they are just as much mine
.
Selfishness and separation have led me
To believe that the world is not my problem
The world is not my problem
I am the world
And you are the world
.
If all of the ignorance in the world
Passes a second ago
What would you say?
Who would you obey?
I am here to say that
.
Peace is now
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i like this song it is very pretty. I don't know if anyone will comment on this song if noone has already, but i'll just say what i think. I think this is a song about peace and caring about others and not blaming others for the problems of the world because you understand that you could have made the same mistakes...
Even further realizing that blame ultimately is selfish. It can make you feel good to assign the problem to someone else's doing but that accomplishes nothing real.
Even further realizing that blame ultimately is selfish. It can make you feel good to assign the problem to someone else's doing but that accomplishes nothing real.
We all have the ability to make peace in our own lifetime. To make the choice to embrace a new way of living, and in the end we must do that to transform into something better than ourselves.
We all have the ability to make peace in our own lifetime. To make the choice to embrace a new way of living, and in the end we must do that to transform into something better than ourselves.
We look to a President to be our voice, and are frequently disappointed at what the voice says... when we have a perfectly functioning voice of our own that we don't use nearly as much...
We look to a President to be our voice, and are frequently disappointed at what the voice says... when we have a perfectly functioning voice of our own that we don't use nearly as much as we should.
I've always thought this song is about our need as a species to stop dividing ourselves with petty labels and work together to fix our common problems.