Being of Equal (feat. Charlie Cawood, Ryo Okumoto, Chris Lebled & Colin Edwin)
United Progressive Fraternity
Here we begin
Our journey through time
As we grow, we think we know it all
We are tested, a child's mind
To be equal, to be fair
Out of centuries of strife, through ages of learning
Frightened by the natural world, and yearning for modernity
An understanding seems a lost art
Understanding is where we must start
To be equal, to be fair
Industrial evolution
Caste out chains
Forging the stairwell
To higher domains
Breakthroughs in medicine
Personal wealth
Cities arising
Serve for yourself
But under the surface
A selfishness brewed
Ambition was planted
Plotted and grew
Silence the voices
Of nature, of pain
Be the amazing
Be entertained
There's no turning back now
Unleash the deluge
We are consumers
We're giants! We're huge!
Building and yearning and buying and burning
Our spires rise up to the sky
Work as religion, believing the vision
We've gone beyond nature's design
Then we turn to face our children in the eyes
Stories told of wrong and right totally collide
Who we are, and how we live our lives
Broke the scale, greed prevailed, balance failed
Losing sight of hope
Where is hope?
Where is hope?
Tough pill to swallow, to stop feeling hollow
We profile the face of disguise
Maybe the ancient ones living in nature somehow
Knew the ways to be wise
So we face ourselves in solace of the night
Scientifically we're crumbling beneath our massive might
Can we realign? Can we ever get it right?
Bottom line redefined try to find
Ancient signs of hope
Is there hope?
Is there hope?
We evolve
Ohm, shono chalo jai
Shonar gaia
Shono, gae jai
Barriers and balancing
On a string ancestral
Growing old and weathering
Becoming the new indigenous
Dig down
Deep down
Spinning on the surface, searching for a hopeful sign
Learning it's depending on us, these seeds of life
You lift me up, take me away, you touch my life, bring words to say
All is what you are
A journey made, a silhouette, we haven't passed the future yet
Constant as the stars
Being of equal
Balance our lives
Growing wise and weathering
Becoming the new indigenous
Go beyond the surface, and plant a hopeful sign
Knowing it's depending on us, these seeds of life
In tune
In tune with yourself
Wise old voices rising
Tune your ear
Ancient future timing
Integrated here
Vision of a future life
How it feels to get it right
Children play, parents chaperone
Free of fear, pioneers
Guide us to our home
Building and learning and crashing and burning
We're scarred but have stars in our eyes
Being of equal, we bungled the sequel
But over and over we rise
Finding the vision beyond the division
till even ourselves we surprise
Give us hope
Give us hope
Give us hope
And there we'll go
Work the equations and balance the nations
Our money, the ocean and sky
Sickness, pollution, the real solutions
Will only appear if we strive
First came that vision, but now is the mission
It's time to begin the big climb
There is hope
There is hope
There is hope
And there we'll go
Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu
Ra ma da sa- sa, say so hung
Building and burning
At last, we are learning
Building and burning
At last, we are learning to hope
Say hope
In a time that tests our free will, that leaves us little to embrace
Are we being equal to this path that we face
Our destiny lies with us, and the choices we create
Balanced at the center between our past and fate
To be equal, to be human, to be strong, the being of being as one
With an art of understanding who we are to become
We all want the same in the end, we all have dreams to chase
Are we being equal on this path that we face
Hope, it's a seed that grows
But life, itself, is not forever
For our kindness to survive strive to be more clever
Let the seeds start growing
While the light is still glowing