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 speed  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, let the blue planet  Let the blue planet    Mother, father please explain to me  Mother, father please explain