I want to see the world

It’s a warm summer’s day, and I want to see the world
As the sun shines, blinding spotlights off my windows of pearl,
I want to see the world

So much beauty, so profound
Extending from a hundred feet underground to the mountaintops
Above the sky, beyond the stratosphere
Startlingly higher than the atmosphere

From daylight to the night
On the pyramids of Egyptian kings
To dine beyond the blizzards of Antarctica
I want to see the world

Where it is white all year round
Where huts of ice are filled with loving families
Huddling over their cold fish and warm flame

Where the ground is covered sand
And the families are nomads with no land
But the frightening blazing heat of the deserts bittersweet irony
Hot and Cold

I want to see the Aztec ruins
The Louvre
Serenissima
I want to climb the Alps
I want to see the world!

But I ask... What will be left when I’m finished with my studying?
When I've 'built up the means' to take my wife and kids on holiday

The bones of mine will lose their strength
And the city of masks will lose her romance
And climbing mountains will become ‘sport for youth’

What will I show my kids when the Elephant’s extinct?
When the glaciers have sunk beyond recognition,
When the icecaps push our tides astray
And the seasons become tropical in England

What will I say when the rainforests dry up
And all the trees have been cut up anyway?

I want to see the world
And I want to pass it down
But the world I want to see
Is it the world of yesterday?

I want to see a world
Like Eden, rich in life

I don’t want to see what it can be
In three or four year’s time...
A worldwide metropolis of big machines and skyline