Only a Dream

Wake up, wake up! It’s only a dream. 
Things are not really as good as they seem. 

As limbs torn apart in resource-led wars, 
and Stepford Wives filing in groups for divorce. 
As drills and syringes or gargantuan size
are plunged into Earth and, in quaking, she cries. 

Wake up, wake up! It’s only a dream. 
Things are not really as good as they seem. 

Your job is not great, you’re just being used!
Your opinions are formed by the lies in the news.
Your children do not need to see what work is worth. 
They need to see you work to help save the Earth. 

Wake up, wake up! It’s only a dream. 
Things are not really as good as they seem. 

You you’ve got your house, your salary and car, 
so you really think you’ve worked hard to come far?
But see how your fragile little dream so implodes 
as your job lay you off with your mortgage foreclosed.  

Wake up, wake up! It’s only a dream. 
Things are not really as good as they seem. 
Wake up, wake up! I fear for your health!
Invest not in dreams, but invest in yourself.