Let's Look Inside Let's Wake Up

Let's Look Inside Let's Wake Up

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A few
Getting rich 
Off the system
Bureaucracy 
Entrenches 
Secures 
Status quo
Decisions 
Maximum profit

How much is air worth? 

Illusory world 
Unjust unfair no doubt?
Don't be fooled 
By appearances 
Follow your own
Calling 
Let's look inside 
Let's wake up

Concentrated wealth 
Monopolizing
Lobbyists shaping 
Decisions for me you
Break the habits 
Ripping world apart 

How much is water worth?

Start out young alive 
Get comfortable
Lazy, fat, dead

Let's Look Inside Let's Wake Up

More knowledge than ever
On this computer screen 
Where is wisdom?
Salvation won't come
From a technological dream

How much is this earth worth?

Illusory world 
Unjust unfair no doubt?
Don't be fooled 
By appearances 
Follow your own
Calling 
Let's look inside 
Let's wake up

Obvious those with nothing 
Hungry
Throwing rocks about
Sickness contagious 
International in scope and depth

How much are our dreams worth?

Play the game 
You'll be well paid 
Some say 
That's what happiness is about
More one has 
More one wants
Media says 
I'm not good enough
Buy more things
I'll be the best 

How much is future generations survival worth?

Don't want your revolution 
Democracy Communism Socialism 
Al grounded in materialism
Nature says
Humanity
Your economics
Will be your death
Wake up

Illusory world 
Unjust unfair no doubt?
Don't be fooled 
By appearances 
Follow your own
Calling 
Let's look inside 
Let's wake up

Disguised
Forces of power 
Ruling over you me

How much are sentient beings worth?

Yet we are more free 
Than we realized
The work of oppression
Has been outsourced
Now the oppressed
Police themselves
Oh how lost we are
Let's stop
Oppressing
Ourselves

How much is compassion worth?

Don't have answers
World's falling apart 
Don't believe liars 
Don't believe in
Scapegoats 
Believe in myself 

How much is equanimity worth?

Illusory world 
Unjust unfair no doubt?
Don't be fooled 
By appearances 
Follow your own
Calling 
Let's look inside 
Let's wake up

How much is joy worth?

Alone together 
Responsible to work things out
Don't know where to start

Gonna look inside 
Gonna wake up

Nothings else has worked
Turning away in pain 
Played my part 
Brought me down
Gonna wake up

How much is lasting happiness worth?

Will not be a toy
Unimpressed
By human beings 
How we waste
Our lives away
Chasing things
That fall through
Our fingers
Like sand 
Destroying
All we touch

How much is love worth?

Illusory world 
Unjust unfair no doubt?
Don't be fooled 
By appearances 
Follow your own
Calling 
Let's look inside 
Let's wake up

How much is our spirit worth?
How much?

Clearly not part of the
Economic formula

Time to look inside
Time to wake up
Time to let go of the old
Time to move forward
Time to love
Onward 

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David Arndt 2022

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Artwork Natacha Einat

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