SAMPLE
LYRICS
WE WON'T TALK
ABOUT TOMORROW
Copyright
© 1982/1992 Lori Lopez
As another tree falls in the jungle
A myriad of lives will disappear
Everyday the wilderness grows smaller
Soon the forest lands will all be clear
And we
won’t talk about tomorrow
When all we had is here today
And we won’t have to say we’re sorry
Cuz there’ll be nothing left to say
Cuz there’ll be nothing left to say
Can you imagine
life without green jungles?
A world in which no animals roam free?
Well, unless we stop and think about it
Imagination’s all that there will be
And we
won’t talk about tomorrow
We need to talk about today
There’s no time left for us to borrow
We’re throwing everything away
Can you imagine
life without clean water?
Can you imagine breathing without air?
Can any man build elephants or dolphins?
We’d better save the world while it’s still there!
And we
won’t talk about tomorrow
As if we only had today
And we won’t have to say we’re sorry
We’ll smile and watch the children play
Just smile and watch the children play
Let’s smile and watch the children play
Save Today
We can’t wait until Tomorrow
We need to make the world a better place
Let us save Today
There’s too much pain and sorrow
Being blind won’t make the heartache
Go away
So save today
We’ve got to save today
For the children of Tomorrow
And every creature’s sake
We’ve got to save the world today.
KEEP THE HEART OF
A CHILD
Copyright
© 1992 Lori Lopez
How many wistful
dreams are cast upon the stars at night?
Who collects the
fragments when our hopes are lying scattered in the light?
Is there some
better way
To reach a better
day
When we can all
Live our lives?
The sun paints a
rainbow to cover the clouds
A message of hope
in a world full of doubt
And we who stand under and lift up our eyes
Must keep our
hopes and dreams alive
And keep the heart
of a child
Keep the stars
shining in our eyes
Just imagine how
it could be
If rainbows never
end
Just imagine how
it would be
If rainbows never
end
Oh for the days
and the ways to make everything right
How can we ever
replace what we hope for with all of our might?
If it could only be
If they would only
see
What’s
inside of our hearts
The sun makes a
rainbow through oceans of tears
Why
can’t we make peace last through all of the years?
Why
can’t we feed hunger and live with respect?
Why
can’t we find these answers yet???
And keep the heart
of a child
Keep the stars
shining in our eyes
Is there some
better way
To reach a better
day
When we can all
Live our lives???
And keep the heart
of a child
Keep the stars
shining in our eyes
Just imagine how
it could be
If rainbows never
end
And keep the heart
of a child
Keep the stars
shining in your eyes
Just imagine how
it would be
If rainbows never
end.
FAIRY TALES
Copyright
© 1993/1994 Lori Lopez
Along the way
Some walls of fear
Have broken down
But are we free?
There is no right that isn’t wrong
From another point of view
Border lines are often drawn
By the ugly things men do
Most of us just watch the times
Through hollow eyes
We don’t know who to believe
We don’t know what’s truth or lies
Sometimes
The Good Guys aren’t so good
Or The Bad Guys all so bad
The brave may speak the thoughts aloud
That we all have
And some believe
In fairy tales
Happy endings too
That everyone can get along
Every wish come true
And some believe
In fairy tales
Exists a perfect world
In pages of a storybook
Where morals can be learned
For all we know
The hardest walls to break
Are those invisible
For all we know we live our lives
Victims of conspiracy
That builds a wall between two towns
And then calls us enemies
Most of us just watch the times
Through hollow eyes
We don’t know who to believe
We don’t know what’s truth or lies
Sometimes
The Good Guys aren’t so good
Or The Bad Guys all so bad
The brave may speak the thoughts aloud
That we all have
And some believe
In fairy tales
Happy endings too
That everyone can get along
Every wish come true
And some believe
In fairy tales
Exists a perfect world
In pages of a storybook
Where morals can be learned
Where every land is someone’s home
And every heart is free
Where Good Guys beat The Bad Guys and
There are no walls between.
HANG ON TO YOUR
DREAMS
Copyright
© 1993/2006/2007 Lori Lopez
Some dreams can be
hard to reach
Like a bright and
distant star
That you try to
get a grip upon
But it’s
always just too far
It’s a
slow step up from where you’re at
To where you want
to be
That seems to take
forever when
Your heart is full
of need
But hang on to
your dreams
Even though you
don’t know how to
It's closer than
it seems
It's everything
about you
We all need
encouragement
In what
we’re trying to achieve
It’s
tough enough if you must aim too high
With no one else
there to believe
It’s a
lonesome road to travel on
To get where you
want to be
And it seems to
take forever when
Your heart is full
of need
But hang on to
your dreams
Even though you
don’t know how to
Surrender not your
schemes
Even when your
best friends doubt you
Sometimes the
people laugh at you
When their own dreams have slipped away
And it makes them feel so bad inside
That they find nothing good to say
It can make you cry as you wonder why
People have the strength to dream
Cuz it seems to take forever when
Your heart is full of need
But hang on to
your dreams
Even though you don’t know how to
Hang on to those dreams
Even when your
family doubts you
Hang on to your
dreams
Even when they
wonder about you
And if you get the
chance
To show what you
can do
Take the stage and
let it shine
For all the world
to view
But if you should
fall flat
Rise up and bounce
right back
Give it everything
Give it everything
you’ve got!
You’ve
got to dream if you want to reach that distant star
Because the light
you are searching for
Is in your heart.
CARE (ABOUT
YOU AND ME)
Copyright
© 1981/1992/2007 Lori Lopez
Don’t be afraid
For all the mess we’ve made
It doesn’t have to be this way
If not for greed
My flesh is yours
Why kill ourselves with wars?
That doesn’t settle any scores
Just makes us bleed
Some lasting peace and harmony
Is what we need
We live in a land
That kills its young each day
Where babies die to defend the rights
Of the free
And the voices of leaders
Don’t cry out in pain
Tell me where is their conscience?
Where is their shame?
Why? Can
you tell me why?
And the drugs and the guns
Don’t discriminate
God's creatures die in the blink of an eye
In a world overpowered by greed
When what we need
Is to care about you and me
We need to care
About you and me
We breathe one air
This world is ours to share
Life doesn’t have to be unfair
If we just care
Why can’t we try
To co-exist beneath one sky
To hear the children cry
That doesn’t seem so hard to me
Some lasting peace and harmony
Is what we need
We don’t need more wars
Toxic waste
Nuclear cores
We need to raise our children wise
To see through opened
Yet innocent eyes
That we don’t need more poverty
Wasted lives of anarchy
There’s too much tragedy to go around
We need more smiles
We need less frowns
We don’t need cities everywhere
We need more wilderness to spare
We don’t need vices and corruption
The spoils of fossil-fuel consumption
We don’t need more than we can use
While others suffer from abuse
We need to care
About you and me
We can do without
The ills of drugs
Tobacco
Alcohol
Firearms and thugs
Crime behind bars
More explosive shells
The extinction of Nature
Heartless terror cells
Manmade disaster
The spread of disease
Corporate farms
Divided families
The reckless loss of Life
Oppression
Aggression
And civil strife
Corrupted youths
Immoral truths
Mega-nations
Conglomerations
Prejudice and Hate
Before too late
We need to care
About you and me
Hunger
Pollution
Chemically altered genes
Poaching
Encroaching
More thoughtless deeds
We don’t need violence in our community
And we don’t need
The right to kill our sons
In the name of equality!
We need to heal this earth
Consider its worth
We need to care
About you and me
Can’t we just care
About you
And me?