Refugee
Written by Tommy Leonard 1995 (more info)

You stand there like a sentinel,
You know this land is yours.
You've been listening to the changes now,
Nearly thirty million years.

You understand the patterns,
You are certain of your place.
But you can't understand the arrogance
Of the upright-standing apes.

They drove you from the coastal lands,
They fenced you from the plains.
They chased you up the hillside,
Where they stripped your trees for gain.

By this gradual enclosure
You were thrown out of your home
And you watched as the invader
Claimed your land to be his own.

How can they be so blind?
Who do they think they are?
What did they really expect to find?
The whole is still more than the sum of the parts.

Who's going to break the silence?
Who's going to stand up and say
That one species lost is too high a cost?
It's more than we could ever repay.

In those places where you found refuge
You still know the land is yours.
Not to buy and sell for a handful of gold,
But for as long as time endures.

And time will heal the ravages
And cover up all trace
Of the arrogance and the ignorance
Of the upright-standing apes.

How can we be so blind?
Who do we think we are?
What did we really expect to find?
The whole is still more than the sum of the parts.

Who's going to break the silence?
Who's going to stand up and say
That one species lost is too high a cost?
It's more than we could ever repay.

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