Dory Previn - Say Goodbye
When I was a babe the sea and the sun
were the mother's arms to which I'd run
Secure beneath the pure maternal sky.
Time went on we grew apart,
and I forgot my mothers heart
A heart deprived of love can only cry
And I am going away, I heard her say
I'm going away, I heard her say
I'm going away, won't someone say goodbye
When I was a child I ruled the earth
I owned it all, its total worth
Each fish, each field, each flower, each dragonfly
Then one day it occured to me
if I owned the earth, then the earth owns me
and each of us must live or both of us will die
And I am going away, I heard her say
Yes I'm going away, I heard her say
I'm going away, won't someone say goodbye
Alone in space we together float
a frightened crew in a fragile boat
and each of us must live or both of us will die
Each of us must live or both of us will die
After a nuclear war, ours will be a very different world. Everything we know, see, hear, feel . . . all we've inherited from our ancestors, from Galileo, from Da Vinci - we will have destroyed. All the music will be silenced: Beethoven, Mozart, the Beatles, no more. No more the books, the Bible, the human beings. Most people will die. They will be the fortunate ones. The unfortunate ones will suffer a lingering illness called acute radiation. Acute radiation is something never seen until the atomic bombs were dropped - by us - on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the sunny month of August, on a summer day just like today. . . .
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| Title:Say Goodbye
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