We see it on TV, we get calls on the phone   By the prophets of doom, they won't leave us alone   The planet is dying and there's no time to spare   We spend all our days sowing seeds of despair      We get enough bad news to harden our hearts   This fear that we feed on is what's keeping us apart   To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark   And it don't make you right, it just keeps you in the dark      I don't want to live angry, I don't want to live scared   I don't need no more prophets crying, "Brother beware"   Just put some work in my hands and give me a dollar to spare   And don't let me sow those seeds of despair      Well, this Earth is a graveyard, it will swallow our bones   It was here long before us, it will be here when we're gone   It's a vain generation that looks for a sign   Don't you think we could make better use of our time      Yeah, the air could be cleaner and the water could too   But what we do to each other are the worst things that we do   And we can treasure our freedoms behind our locked doors   But God speed the day when we're lonely no more      I don't want to live angry, I don't want to live scared   I don't need no more prophets crying, "Brother beware"   Just put some work in my hands and give me a dollar to spare   Don't let me sow those seeds of despair