To worship not the harvest, but the seed, Now driven not from want, but basic need Instead with eyes that see how wonderful our lives can be That here no more we tear apart her very soul, her very heart Yet more back to the Earth than that we took. That here’s a place where we can live where, yes, we still can take, When we can see we can remain amid The Balance we’ll sustain We’ve found the new tomorrow at our door. I’d centre our vision toward the day when we might wake to quietly say If I could change one dream it would be our dream. The universe decreed right from the start. Where we believe we have the right to take all we desire on sight Not as we see our world’s now turned where we ignore the lessons When all of nature, all of man, fit well within that master plan There lived the time when man and earth were friends. I’d open it up to what once was, to love the Elder ways because If I could change one heart it would be your heart. Of balance though that path I do not know,īut trust, that with your help, we yet will find. With confidence I’d find anew the strength to share with all of youĪnd, never doubting I might fail, I’d lead toward that Holy Grail I’d start to trust these thoughts I bear that yet, with effort, we’ll That told of where our attitude was wrong. I’d start to believe that I’d be heard and so would shout out every If I could change one mind it would be my mind. We’ll mourn the wondrous beauty that’s now lost.Īnd we’ll account our selfish ways of unchecked greed that filled our So, through our blood stained tears of guilt for all the wastelands we have So we might stop and look behind with eyes that can no more be blind So we might try to change the course we’ll take. I’d make it the day when we could see the wrongness of our destiny If I could change one day it would be this day. (Revised version) Copyright © Jim Scott 2008 If I Could Change The docks when still his breath was warm. Where the water’s calm and the trade wind never fails. Stiffened leg and place him on the sheet, Old Dickie Dog (He’ll No More Cross The Bar With Me)
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