Naked Earth - Planet Trouble lyrics

You pour cement and call it a river You say it's an improvement Pocketing all the money While the water grows stagnant We pave more roads To widen the path of progress As we suffer in spirit We are forced to regress The time has come You can no longer run away from the problem Realise the situation Open your eyes, crawl from the rubble We got a case of Planet Trouble The pursuit of wealth paves the fields of life It's just business as usual in a world full of strife We don't want your development You ignore the laws of the government Making deals with the local councils To turn our rivers into cement We are forced to regress The time has come You can no longer run away from the problem Realise the situation Open your eyes... (Lyrics: Patrick Dintino; Music: Mark Overby, Russ Ives; 1994 Naked Earth Productions)