Once there was in this land

a big, bad, and terrible king.

His greed was known everywhere,

how he plundered nature,

until nothing grew back.

But we did not bare his tyranny.

So we went and scared the royals away,

for our children to have a future.

But after the king was gone,

the farmfields stopped to grow.

And soon we were to find

the king wasn't the problem, t'was the men.

And so we forbid to plough and to sow,

unless it be so that nature can grow.

But still normality didn't return,

and soon we learned that buildings must fall.

So we went and bulldozered near and far.

And the flowers returned, but animals don't,

and the balance stayed broken like before.

And we learned that children were to blame.

Wanting, needy, all were the same.

How they scared away all the creatures,

how they plundered the fruit trees!

So we locked the kids up, forbid them to play,

hid from the world, this price we must pay.

So that on this earth, so wide, rich, and green,

generations to come can live good and free.