Lyrics

The Whole World Is Burning

On the Yangtze River a million people rise
to the white cranes of the morning like shamans circling in the sky
Smoke Rising from the village, women bent in fields of rice
A Picture from 5,000 years of birth and death and life

This dragon snakes 4,000 miles, river of fortune, river of tears
The gateway to a history of 100,000 years
And 10,000 species soon to vanish like some dream
Left to wander, lost forever to the folly of human beings

The Whole World is Burning
The Whole World is Burning

You don’t have to wait for Armageddon’s cries
There’s a hundred stories will bring water to your eyes
Any Baghdad Morning, any tree that falls
What happens to the least of these happens to us all

The Whole World is Burning
The Whole World is Burning

Om Tara Tuttare Ture Soha….

I want your body, want to pull you tight
Want to rock you softly in the cradle of this night
I want to kiss your heartbreak, I want to see you through
What else can we want, what else should we do

When The Whole World is Burning
The Whole World is Burning

Can’t we find more courage, can’t we find more strength
If we knew just what to do I think we’d make a change
Maybe not for us but for the babies still to come
Throw our bodies on the fire
for our daughters and our sons

The Whole World is Burning
The Whole World is Burning….
©Jennifer Berezan