Gaia - James Taylor

The sky was light and the land all dark, the sun rose up over Central Park

I was walking home from work, Gaia

The petal sky and the rosy dawn, the world turning on the burning sun

Sacred wet green one we live on, Gaia

Run, run, run, run said the automobile and it ran, run for your life,

take to your heels

Foolish school of fish on wheels, Gaia, Gaia

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body just to live in your

mind

Leave your cold cruel mother earth behind, Gaia

As if you were your own creation, as if you were the chosen nation

The world around you, just a rude and dangerous invasion, Gaia, Gaia, Gaia

Someone’s got to stop us now, save us from us Gaia, no one’s got to stop us now

We thought we ought to walk awhile, so we left that town in a single file

Up and up and up, mile after mile after mile

We reached the tree line and I dropped my pack

Sat down on my haunches and I looked back down over the mountain

Helpless and speechless and breathless, Gaia

Pray for the forest pray for the tree, pray for the fish in the deep blue sea

Pray for yourself and for God’s sake, say one for me, poor wretched unbeliever

Someone’s got to stop us now, save us from us Gaia, no one’s got to stop us now