Humanity, it seems, has come to a standstill

No longer satisfied with brimming landfills,

we've stripped resources till we've had our fill

That's alright, our kids can pay the bills,

granted, we've improved a lot of things,

We've got justice and progress, and freedom still rings.

Can't stop 'till we've discovered everything.

But self-discovery, that would definitely sting.

We dont want to think about what abhors

us about ourselves, but we fight in bloody wars,

we rape girls and then call them whores

we got grug use at the corner stores,

legal or otherwise, sleeping with others' wives

burying each other alive in the thick of it,

in the very center brick of it, 

this wall that we have built to keep intruders out,

and to keep our people in, unless they figure it out

that we are part of this world, part of the living,

breathing patchwork of Mother Nature, so giving

and Father Time, so relentless, on our tail

We build schools just like we build jails,

with perimeter secured by guards in uniform

We've been going since we invented cuneiform

But we already know the right ways to live,

Us westerners, and some of us would give

It all to return to that state of tranqility,

where there's not much room for hostility,

If we can change the world fast enough

we could reverse some of the damage 

But what do I know, I'm only one man

It will take others to make this the plan.