We’ve got oceans of water that we just can’t use
We sell our emotions to the daily news
Give birth to our children – and then we turn away
Let’s build a tomorrow from the broken pieces, broken pieces, broken pieces of today

We’ve got snow on the mountains but it melts too fast
Lawns for the fairways but not enough grass
Our leaders are talking but they’ve got nothing to say
Let’s build a tomorrow from the broken pieces, broken pieces, broken pieces of today

We need every sister and brother
To take good care of each other
Like a child in the arms of its mother
Like the loved one embraced by the lover

There are streets in our cities where we fear to tread
Scenes of destruction run around my head
But it’s a beautiful world – are we gonna let it slip away?
Or build a tomorrow from the broken pieces, broken pieces, broken pieces of today

We need every sister and brother
To take good care of each other
Like a child in the arms of its mother
Like the loved one embraced by the lover

I’m talking to you and I am talking to me
Our time’s running over baby can’t you see
Yes it’s a beautiful world – are we gonna let it slip away?
Let’s build a tomorrow from the broken pieces, broken pieces, broken pieces of today