2. The Worth of Mother Earth

Music by Brent Lewis, Lyrics by Perry Crawford

Out of the girth of Mother Earth,
Her children all are born,
But the fish in the seas and the birds in the breeze
And the animals came to mourn...
The creatures all came to mourn.

Out of the girth of Mother Earth
The humans came to be.
They take out of greed so much more than they need,
Taking all that they see,
They’re taking all that they see.

Deep in the girth of Mother Earth
They dig deep in her veins.
Her black blood pours from the open sores
While men ignore her pain,
While mankind ignores her pain.

All round the girth of Mother Earth
The cancer of man spreads on.
The jungles he clears and the woods disappear
Until everything green is gone.
'Til everything green is gone.

All round the girth of Mother Earth
The ravaged land lays bare.
Except for the sprawl and the thrash over all
And so few men who care,
So very few men who care.

Gone is the worth of Mother Earth
And the end of man is nigh
When there’s not enough of the life giving stuff
Both man and earth will die, will die.
Both man and earth will die.