Mother Father

Mother father please explain to me
 Why a world so full of mystery
 A place so bitter and still so sweet
 So beautiful and yet so full of sad, sad
 Mother father please explain to me
 Why forests march to deserts be
 While snow capped mountains melt away
 What do we tell our babies? What do we say, oh?
 Mother father please explain to me
 How, a man who rocks his child to sleep
 Yet pulls the trigger on his brother's heart
 He digs a hole right in the middle of a storm of hatred
 Mother father please explain to me
 How it could be so this world has come to be
 A precious balance in between
 Such cruelty and such kindness please, please
 Mother father please explain to me
 How this world has come to be
 Unequalled in her blessings, oh I see
 Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me
 Mother father please explain to me
 How the world has come to be so
 Twisted between time and dreams
 Oh, mother father, please explain to me
 What's all this talk about
 All this talk about it
 Spinning down, down, down, down, down
 All this talk about
 Endless words without
 Nothing's done
 Mother father do you know
 Why one man's belly overflows
 Another sleeps in hungers bed?
 We'd trade our world for a piece of bread
 Mother father please explain to me
 How this rare worlds come to be
 A place so full of color yet overflowing always
 In black and white, drowning in the waters of our -
 Mother father please explain to me
 How this world has come to be
 While still blessed in all the things, we see
 Such a sad, sad home for you and me
 Come on
 Come on out you
 Come on out you
 Come on save yourself
 Come on out you
 Come on
 We're taking on water
 We're taking on water
 We're taking on water
 But you know we've got the freedom
 We've got the freedom
 There's no god above
 No hell below
 It's here with us
 It's up to us
 To keep afloat, oh
 How this sweet world has come to be
 All to keep afloat, oh
 Mother father please explain to me
 How this rare world has come to be
 Oh, let the blue planet, let the blue planet
 Mother father please explain to me
 Mother father please explain