Leave Them a Flower lyrics

I speak on behalf of the next generation

Our sons and daughters, their children to come

What will we leave them for their recreation

An oil slick, a pylon, an industrial slum

Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow

A hill and a valley, a view to the sea

These things are not ours to destroy as we want to

A gift given once for eternity

We plunder, we pillage, we tear and we tunnel

Trees lying toppled, they finger the sky

Building a land for machines and computers

In the name of progress the farms have to die

Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow

A hill and a valley, a view to the sea

These things are not ours to destroy as we want to

A gift given once for eternity

Fish in the ocean polluted and poisoned

The sand on our beaches, all stinking and black

We and our tankers and banks and investments

Say, "Never worry, the birds will come back"

Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow

A hill and a valley, a view to the sea

These things are not ours to destroy as we want to

A gift given once for eternity

When the last flower has dropped its last petal

When the last concrete is finally laid

The moon will shine cold on a nightmarish landscape

Our gift to our children, this world that we made

Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow

A hill and a valley, a view to the sea

These things are not ours to destroy as we want to

A gift given once for eternity

Eternity

Eternity