– We the People Can Brighten This World (5:26) –
(Pietro Cottone)
This song is about how man has been the architect of his own destruction. How human beings have crafted a world of hate, injustice, violence and war. How greed and selfishness have increased social disparities and poverty. It speaks about how actions of man have detrimental effects on his own environment. The song and the entire album conclude with a positive message: it encourages human beings to look at the future with new eyes, to rebirth in order to save themselves from the self-destruction.
Lyrics:
Children slaved in the fashion supply chain
The new pawns of the globalized board
The sea turns to a graveyard of migrants
Who escaped from their pulverized homes
Kamikazes who slaughter civilians
While they’re shouting, evoking their God
Soldiers losing their life in the first line
While they’re fighting a war to steal oil
Hate, injustice, violence and war
We are to blame for this nonsense world
Will the sun rise again on the horizon?
Will the light give contour to the whole?
Will people minds wake up back from the oblivion?
Will people’s awareness brighten this world?
People living a luxury lifestyle
Next to slums where surviving ain’t sure
Glaciers melt and the sea level rises
But the science isn’t adequate proof
Clochards live at the edge of the suburbs
Like the scrap of the civilized world
Race, skin color, origin, religion
Sick pretexts used to shed blood and shoot
We are sinking into the unknown
We are to blame for this nonsense world
“Bad news for our planet. A report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns about ongoing global warming. We have 12 years to contrast the climate change catastrophe and keep the temperature rise to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which the risks of extreme weather-related events and poverty will worsen.” [Anchorwoman]
We can roll our eyes at the horizon
We can return the contour to the whole
We can awake from this drowsy oblivion
We the people can brighten this world
