Break all the mirrors

Break all the mirrors so we can’t see what we’ve become
What happened to that sixties dream of a world built on love?
Survival made so difficult we didn’t see it slip away
Now it is on our children the bill is theirs to pay

It doesn’t have to be this way
It doesn’t have to be this way

The flowers once so powerful…have all gone away
We sit here softly rocking and don’t know what to say
The days they seem so endless with boulders in our way
The dreams the fall like tears and our feet seem stuck in clay

It doesn’t have to be this way
It doesn’t have to be this way

Why did we choose to settle for a nightmare as our dream?
Why did we choose to settle for mammon’s twisted scheme?
Once we danced at Woodstock united as one team
Once we understood to win on each other we must lean.

It doesn’t have to be this way
It doesn’t have to be this way

We should not look a yesterday to see how it should be
We should be able to wake each day knowing we are free
The cost so great the time so late, and twilight makes its call
Softly chuckling at its structure knowing it will fall

It doesn’t have to be this way
It doesn’t have to be this way

To the children we must apologize for we placed them in the stock
Then we frightened handed over the keys to their binding lock
Dashing madly in our search for satisfactions shining baubles
The wait so great the time so late as stumbling we do hobble

It doesn’t have to be this way
It doesn’t have to be this way

Oh well break all the mirrors so we can’t see what we’ve become
What happened to that sixties dream of a world built on love?
Survival made so difficult we didn’t see it slip away
Now it’s on our children the bill come due today

I’m so sorry oh my little ones
I’m sorry….I’m sorry