WHO WE ARE

by Glen Rhodes

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featuring Chorus Niagara; directed by Robert Cooper
watch the video below (world premiere)

LYRICS

CHOIR

This is who we are.

New day, life awakens. Blue moon fades away.

Air is clean. Mist is cool. Sky is bright. All is calm. Breathe, breathe.
The day is born, the clouds ignite, the Earth is alive.
She is alive.

MOTHER EARTH

Children, do you think of me? Children, do you care for me?
I think you’ve forgotten who I am.
I think you’ve forgotten who you are.

CHOIR

Who we are.

The fire burns.
The blood of the Earth, It flows through me!

One more dollar. One more…

Igne natura renovatur integra.
(Through fire nature is reborn whole)

Pecuniam plus Deo, pecuniam plus Deo.
(More money than God)

One more dollar, one more barrel.
One more dollar, one more bottle.
One more dollar, one more factory. 

One more dollar, one more landfill.
One more dollar, one more oil spill.
One more dollar, one more megawatt. 
One more dollar, one more bottom line. 

One more dollar, one more billionaire.

One more dollar, one more flood. 

One more dollar, one more dry spell. 
One more dollar, one more heatwave. 
One more dollar, one more wildfire. 
One more dollar, one more refugee. 
One more dollar, one more glacier. 
One more dollar, one more cyclone. 

One more dollar, one more hurricane.

One more dollar, one more species. 

One more dollar, one more forest.
One more dollar, one more habitat.
One more dollar, one more wasteland.
One more dollar,
one more ecosystem.

One more dollar, one more famine.
One more dollar, one more victim. 

One more dollar, one more death!

CHILDREN

Save us now!

CHOIR

Plunder, steal and tear asunder. Tears of blackened rain and thunder.

Quaking ship that sinks beneath us.
One last chance for us!

Do we know who we are?
Can we change? Can we learn? Do we try?

CHILDREN & CHOIR

One last dream. One last prayer.

This is my prayer: That you will see That you are a child of this world just like me.

This is your prayer: That I will see that I am a child of this world just like you.

This is your prayer:
That we will see
that we are all one with this world, we are one…

MOTHER EARTH

Children of mine I gave you life. I give you all that I am.
I pray for you. Please pray for me. I still have hope. We are one…

CHOIR

Point of no return.

MOTHER EARTH

I think you’ve forgotten who you are.

CHOIR

A cool wind blows. The clouds appear. A silver shroud upon the shore,
that bears the rain.
The fire dies. The trees exhale.

Her wounds are soothed, the Earth is healed,
the children sing.

CHILDREN

This is my dream:
To live a life like you did when you were like me.

CHOIR

We ask ourselves Just who we are.
We have beat the odds for a million years and fought for what was right.
As forests grow, and mountains rise, tomorrow calls on us today
to find our way.

MOTHER EARTH

Children of mine please save yourselves! I think you remember who you are.

ALL

We sing with hope, we stand as one. We have conquered death,
we have reached the stars,

That’s who we are. That’s who we are!

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