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 desert's beat   While snowcapped mountains melt away   What do we tell our babies, when do we say, oh      Mother, Father please explain to me   How a man who rocks his child to sleep   Pulls the trigger on his brother's heart   He digs a hole right to the middle of this 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      Mother, Father please explain to me   How this world has come to be   Unequaled in her blessings, oh, I see   Unbridled hatred so extreme, please tell me      Mother, Father please explain to me   How this world has come to be so   Twisted between time and dreams   Oh, mother, father please explain to me   Oh, 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 hunger's bed   Oh, we trade our world for a piece of bread      Oh Mother, Father please explain to me   How this rare world's 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 out, and hold,   Come on out you   Come on out you   Come and save yourself      Come on out you   Come on we're taking the water   We're taken the water   We're taken the water   But you know   We got the freedom   We got the freedom      There's no God above   And no hell below   Oh, it's here with us   It's up to us   To keep afloat      How this sweet world has come to be   Oh to keep afloat      Mother, father please explain to me   How this rare world has come to be   Oh, little blue planet   Little blue planet      Mother, father please explain to me   Mother, father please explain