TEXT IV

Earth song

1 What about sunrise

2 What about rain

3 What about all the things that you said

4 We were to gain

5 What about killing fields

6 Is there a time

7 What about all the things

8 That you said were yours and mine

9 Did you ever stop to notice

10 All the blood we've shed before

11 Did you ever stop to notice

12 This crying Earth, these weeping shores

13 What have we done to the world

14 Look what we've done

15 What about all the peace

16 That you pledge your only son

17 What about flowering fields

18 Is there a time

19 What about all the dreams

20 That you said was yours and mine

21 Did you ever stop to notice

22 All the children dead from war

23 Did you ever stop to notice

24 This crying earth, these weeping shores

25 I used to dream

26 I used to glance beyond the stars

27 Now I don't know where we are

28 Although I know we've drifted far

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JACKSON, M. Disponível em: https://www.vagalume.com.br/. Acesso em: 07 ago. 2017.

Sentences in lines 13 and 14 contribute to the general meaning of the song by indicating