Wookiefoot, Olivia Fricke, Amali Fricke - Writing on the Wall lyrics

Recently I've been thinking of you
My great-grandchild
How insane it became to explain
What we're going through
And these days my mind can run wild
So I thought it would better if I
Wrote it in a letter to you

Dear great-grand kids
I wanna try to explain what
We did to your planet and damn it
I know it's hard to understand it
But the fact is, we failed to take action and
Acted like manic generational bandit's
And I'm sure you gotta
Couple of questions like
What were you thinking and
What was your intention
But, sadly this message is
Just a confession about
How we failеd the test and
Nevеr learned our damn lesson

You know your ancestors worked
In the coal mine
Never havin' money, never had time
Never see the sun
Poisoning the land with the fumble
Mostly die from black lung
Just to provide for they young and

Now everybody thinkin' that we doing all
The best that we can
We, do it for our families
Never understanding what we did
(You can't starve your grand children
Just to feed your kids)

And even though there's many souls
With many eyes they'll never know
Never know it's there at all
It's clear to me that I could see
That they tried just know tonight
It's in the writing on the wall
It's in the writing on the wall

Dear great-grand dad
While I appreciate the thought of it
Your world sounds beautiful but you
Left us the opposite
All these floods and famines
You could've stopped a lot of it
You had the opportunity
But, you just kept dropping it
All I'm saying is I wish we still had bees
Or maybe I could've climbed in a real tree
Or dove down deep on a living coral reef
And stared in disbelief beneath
An unpolluted sea

Cause we are not on this Earth, we are of it
We are not here to exploit
We were created to love it
It's not too late for you to rise above it
Feel the cries through time
Of generational justice

Only you will know what you did
When the tides came by
Whether you fought or you hid
Only you will know what you did
Cause you can't starve your grand children
Just to feed your kids

And even though there's many souls
With many eyes they'll never know
Never know it's there at all
It's clear to me that I could see
That they tried just know tonight
It's in the writing on the wall

Even though there's many souls
With many eyes who'd never know
Never know it's there at all
It's clear to me that we could
Change it if we tried just you and I
We write the writing on the wall
We write the writing on the wall