Paula Cole - Universal Empathy lyrics

What the universe needs right now
Is some mutual understanding
The good and gentle
Kindnesses in every day actions
In the best of ourselves lies
A child full of hope
One who feels every sunset and tree
Elephant and crow
This is the root of the dwelling
Place of every living soul connection!

All you white men guarding your gates
Know your privilege it comes
From the luck of the lottery
Some bullshit genetic caste system
You had a mother so why
You gonna take her down?
Give us our equality, our choice
Our bodies are our own! Connection!
Connection to our universal empathy!

Oceans full of plastic killing
Those who cannot speak such an immoral waste
Of rainforest biodiversity
The planet needs her oxygen
We people need her trees
This blindness is a murdering
Of every living being connection!
Feeling connection to our universal empathy!

We send our brothers off to jails
To a system of deceit
Bail is based on skin color
The darker you are, the longer you’re in
Then working for slave wages
For corporate plantations
Profiteering from free labor
They want to build more prisons
Then the children go to
Foster care and families are broken

I want to get militant
I want to divide and scream
But, I think on Dr martin Luther King’s dream
I know that in every soul
Regardless of their skin
Or age or sex or identity
Lies the empathy within connection!
Feeling connection to our universal empathy!

Om, om, om, om, om
Relax and breathe and look within
To your third eye
Relax and breathe and listen
To your heartbeat heartbeat
Relax and breathe and look within
To your third eye
Relax and breathe and listen
To your heartbeat heartbeat
Connection!
Feeling connection to our universal empathy!
Connection to ourselves and to the
Mother and us all!
Connection to our universal empathy!