Linnet Woods singing one of her songs and accompanying herself on the guitar.
Singer/songwriter since 1965. Have published a few songs, in the distant past, for other artists to use but this is the first time I have released any performed
Story behind the song
Written in a basement guitar repair workshop in the West End of London and recorded in a Transit Van in Christchurch, Dorset, seven years later.
Found news of rainforest destruction, pollution of the oceans, huntings to extinction etc., somewhat depressing so I thought I'd better cheer myself up by doing the only thing I could about it... writing a song :-)
Lyrics
There's hope for the future
as long as we will take the steps
to pave the way.
Let's work in the present,
try and make things work out right,
before tomorrow comes
and we're all run out of time.
Man fondly dreams
of colonising other worlds
instead of nurturing
his own sweet planet, Earth.
How we love our friends and relations
near and far away,
how sad that we treat all strangers
like our enemies these days.
Although our children
try to follow where we lead
we only blind them
traditions we're losing
hide themselves in history
we undermine them to our cost
before too long they'll all be lost.
Man fondly dreams
of colonising other worlds
instead of nurturing
his own sweet planet, Earth.
How could we think of wasting a nation
just to prove that we are strong
and who are we to say
that anybody else is right or wrong?
There's hope for the future
as long as we will take the steps
to pave the way.
Let's work in the present,
try to make things come out right,
before tomorrow comes
and we're all run out of time.
Out of sight but not out of mind
Don't let's let ourselves run out of time
There's hope for the future
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