Earth

Earth Song, Michael Jackson www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU

 

The short film to Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song,” his best-selling single in the United Kingdom, earned Michael the Doris Day Music Award from the Humane Society’s Genesis Awards. The urgent need to address the issues facing the planet and all that inhabit it were on the forefront of Michael’s mind when he created this song and short film, issues that are even more urgent today.

 

If anything good will maybe come out of all of the crisis we face today, is a new found respect and appreciation for the uniquely beautiful planet we live on, and how all life on it is connected.

I hope we evolve from our aggressive, destructive, rapacious tendencies to a more loving, compassionate way of being in the world.

 

 

What about sunrise

What about rain

What about all the things that you said

We were to gain

What about killing fields

Is there a time

What about all the things

That you said were yours and mine

 

Did you ever stop to notice

All the blood we've shed before

Did you ever stop to notice

This crying Earth, these weeping shores

 

What have we done to the world

Look what we've done

What about all the peace

That you pledge your only son

What about flowering fields

Is there a time

What about all the dreams

That you said was yours and mine

 

Did you ever stop to notice

All the children dead from war

Did you ever stop to notice

This crying earth, these weeping shores

 

I used to dream

I used to glance beyond the stars

Now I don't know where we are

 

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