Hot winds and hunger cries--Ethiopia
Flies in your babies' eyes--Ethiopia
Walking sticks on burning plains
Betrayed by politics
Abandoned by the rains
On and on--the human need
On and on--the human greed profanes
Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia

Your top soil flies away--Ethiopia
We pump ours full of poison spray--Ethiopia
Between the brown skies and sprinkling lawns
I hear the whine of chain saws
Hacking rain forests down
On and on--insanities
On and on--Short sighted greed abounds
Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia

Little garden planet-oasis in space
Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand it
Famine phantoms at the garden gates
Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia

Every Sunday on T.V.--Ethiopia
You suffer with such dignity--Ethiopia
A T.V. star with a P.R. smile
Calls your baby "it" while strolling
Through your tragic trials
On and on--stupidity
On and on--the basic needs are defiled
Good air--good water--good earth
Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia

Little garden planet--oasis in space
Some hearts hurt--they can hardly stand the waste
Ethiopia--Ethiopia--Ethiopia

Comments (1)

  • Juleiyan
    This is a great, momentous song- the stick-accompianment dance used by African and perhaps New Zealand (?) shamanism; not by Toltecs (perhaps could be)... Fate, inscrutable, seems to have a material reality mirror Physis- "Inexorable", spelled out, backwards... Most portentious, from somewhere in the Cosmos, that supreme Raetsel Master, Death, is closing in at a great Stalking- perhaps it is only a Projection, however; it inspires fear and awe; might resemble an alleged E.T. visit... -Juleiyan