Peter Garrett - It Still Matters lyrics

Watching the parade on the news last night I was one that walked that road before When everything feels like its crumbling Like the writing's on the wall But dreams are broken, mended and they scatter Like seeds they fall and then the fruit is gathered It always was and always will, be a struggle to fulfil Stay strong and heed the call It still matters to me I hope it matters to you First principles: concrete action reconciliation no more talking fix the system stop keep it strong and give it purpose stop complaining look at nurses, there's no material privation in the fine open cut nation, blinded by the infant me whose appetite is never filled, whose appetite is never filled till every living thing is k**ed, whilst the selfish few still fight for more in a planet smashing selfish war We all take an escalator to that Woolies in the sky To reprise Dante's inferno no longer in disguise Across a windswept open plain some still go against the grain, against the waste the opulence, subtle, sneaking, creeping up on ya, breaking bread on the riverbank, washing nappies at the water tank, happy clappy days are numbered, tumblr grindr drag you under, mixed emotions cost us dearly, years of self-absorption really, electric cars and white gazebos, gadgets that can't save our world where one side has an excavator the other has a wooden spoon, self-centred slick celebrities are crowding out the room, it is obvious inglorious self-evident laborious, so tame this monster once and for all, name it shame it rearrange it, so the dream becomes the real and we can feel and we can see Now in this moment we oppose it, we'll deplore it, we'll repose it, reimagine recompose, make it happen now make it close Because this is dignity, there is hope, there is light at the end of the road, and it still matters to me I hope it matters to you