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Vanida Plamondon (AI Assisted)
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Vanida Plamondon
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November 05, 2025
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Lyrics
Verse 1
I saw the garden once, in a child’s dream,
where rivers hummed like lullabies,
and the wind spoke kindly to the leaves.
It wasn’t myth, it wasn’t lost,
it was waiting, patient as a saint.
But we learned to pave over peace,
to trade compassion for comfort,
and call it progress.
Verse 2
You could plant love like seeds in your hands,
but you build towers instead.
You could feed the hungry,
but you feed the machine.
You call it freedom,
but it’s just the freedom to consume.
You trade the light for something shiny,
and call the wreckage your reward.
Chorus 1
Why do you chase heaven away?
Why do you curse the gentle dawn?
All you had to do was care,
to love your neighbour and stay human.
But you crowned the beast of profit,
you built your altars in its name,
and you dance around the fires
as if the flames were holy.
Bridge 1
You could make the world a little better,
just a touch, a breath, a heartbeat’s worth.
That’s all it would take to turn the tide,
but you’d rather drown in gold.
You’d rather sell the river,
bleach the coral, buy the air,
than admit that love is worth more
than your portfolio of sins.
Verse 3
You preach about salvation,
but you buy your gods on credit.
You sing hymns to quarterly gains,
and pray for dividends instead of mercy.
Every ad is a sermon,
every screen a shrine to self.
And when the planet cries,
you scroll a little faster.
Bridge 2
Do you think heaven’s a prize to be won,
a gated suburb in the clouds?
It was here all along,
in the kindness of a stranger,
in the hand that helps you stand.
But you mistook paradise for property,
and tore it down to build a brand.
Chorus 2
Why do you chase heaven away?
Why do you salt the earth with greed?
All we had to do was care,
to leave behind a little light.
But you built your cities on the bones
of those who couldn’t pay the toll,
and called it civilization.
Verse 4
Somewhere an old man dies alone,
his rent unpaid, his faith intact.
Somewhere a mother sells her ring
to keep her child alive another week.
And you’ll walk past both,
thinking heaven’s still waiting for you.
But heaven left long ago,
packing her bags in silence.
Bridge 3
She said, “I came when you were kind,
I stayed when you still cared.
But you keep pushing me away,
burying me in malls and markets.
Her voice echoes in the smokestacks,
in the cries of the forests burning.
And if you listen, really listen,
you’ll hear her asking too,
why do you chase me away?
Chorus 3
Why do you chase heaven away?
Why do you poison your own sky?
You could have built eternity
with nothing more than love.
But you turned your neighbour to a rival,
and called the cruelty “success.
You drove the angels into exile,
and called their absence peace.
Outro
I don’t need pearly gates,
I just want you to care again.
To look at the world and see
something worth saving, not owning.
Heaven was never elsewhere,
it was the kindness you abandoned,
the mercy you outsourced,
the empathy you forgot to budget.
So I ask again,
not as accusation,
but as prayer,
as plea,
as warning:
Why do you chase heaven away?
Why do you chase heaven away?
It was right here,
in your hands,
and you let it slip,
for nothing worth keeping.
