Album: Everyone is everybody else by Barclay James Harvest, 1974

Child of the universe

I'm a child of South Africa
I'm a child of Vietnam
I'm a child of Northern Ireland
I'm a small boy with blood on his hands

Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every night
Always there to join in someone else's fight

I didn't ask to be born and I don't ask to die
I'm an endless dream, a gene machine
That cannot reason why

Yes I'm a child of the universe
Yes I'm a child of the universe
You can see me on the TV every day
I'm the child next door three thousand miles away

A child of the third world with uncertain future and expendable life in countries with war or starvation is known to us only from TV, but is so close to us no matter the distance. Not only we are brothers as humanity, but we must also realize his/her misery feeds our wealth.


Crazy city

Running alone in the crazy city
Look at the face of once were pretty
People then wonder what happened
To make it that way

Listen around you, have you heard?
Climb on the back of a silver bird
London to L.A. before you can think
What to say

Stop awhile, take a smile
Know that you're living in today
Up and down, look around
No need to hide yourself away

Out in the country's where I'm going
Back where the tree of life's still growing
Take a free ride where the tide
Flows the way of your heart

Follow the wild dove where he's flying
Out where the sun is never crying
Wait at the gate or they'll stop you
And blow you apart

Stop awhile, take a smile
Know that you're living in today
Up and down, look around
No need to hide yourself away


A call to stop a while our urban routine we are bound on and to think about the free nature we sacrifice for a clockwork "safe" and predictable life

You can hear Child of the Universe in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7hkRnmEgzI