A rather dark protest song, written back in 1994, sadly relevant still today, perhaps even more so.

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IS IT TIME
c 1994 Ed Billeaud

Is it time for us to take that step
Is it time to leave behind
All the fear and greed and jealousy
All the wars and hate and crime
It is time for us to look beyond
What our eyes can merely see
It it time for us to comprehend
Is it time for you and me
Is it time?

Well, I've been living in this world
And I've been thinking hard
About our place in outer space
Out here among the stars
And I've been wondering what it takes
And when we'll realize
What it is that we have missed
In the way we live our lives
Yeah I've been told from early on
That nothing's cast in stone
And yet the things that each day brings
Just chill me to the bone
All the killing and the cheating
And the lies behind the smiles
Don't you want to live in peace,
My brothers, is it time?

We put our faith in all the things
That money seems to buy
And we've bought in to high-priced sin
Without stopping to ask why
Our lives are run by machines and men
Who tell us what to think
We sacrifice our days and nights
While we totter towards the brink
The style to which we've grown accustomed
Destroys what it consumes
The day will come when we'll block the sun
With our poison-spewing plumes
And we keep running in the treadmill
Or dropping out of sight
How much longer until we wonder
My brothers, is it time?