Looking like something from out of space we came   Nothing much to look at, but did he complain?   He didn't mind us being here to live in peace and grace   What we're doing to him now could put us back in space   We're thinking like some creatures off the ocean floor   Losing sight of what we've really come here for   Can I be heard above the sounds of prejudice and hate?   Take time to look around before it gets too late    It's a happy old world   Give and take a bit   That's what you make of it   A happy old world   But I'm sorry to be leaving it   It's a happy old world   Give and take a bit   That's what you make of it   A happy old world   But I guess I still, I still believe in it   It's a happy old world       We're tearing up the rivers and a thousand streams   And highways, they're in places where they've never been   We're building towers in the sky and racing for the sun   Oh Lord, any eye can see what harm we've done   I need some help to get myself out of this maze   We can both just say goodbye and go our separate ways   My mind's not on this song I sing, my heart's not in the lines   Guess I'll go and kill myself, so would you kindly close the blinds       Oh a happy old world   Give and take a bit   That's what you make of it   A happy old world   But I'm sorry to be leaving it   It's a happy old world   Give and take a bit   That's what you make of it   A happy old world   But I guess, guess I still believe in it   It's a happy old world