What can be done when the world has lost its class?
Wrecking ships for love of all things fast
Though culture slows this need for speed avails

So burn the coal and stow the sails

We point to progress with the hope it will distract

from crimes against the wisdom of the past
Now stacks of smoke and ash are casting trails
where the air had once prevailed


So tell me what do we need with the sun
Now we have an electric one?

To melt every shadow away
Turn the night into day


So give a shout of "Fair well!"
Now we know we can build it ourselves
But Oh! We stared so long

We forgot we were human

We stand on shoulders of the giants of before

but unlike them we see beyond the shore
The World's gateway we play a game of chase
on the bit to win the race


What do you need with these vanities and charms
sell your fineries and take arms

and at the front these funds will guarantee
Allied victory!


So tell me what do we need with the sun
Now we have an electric one?
To melt every shadow away

Turn the night into day

So give a shout of "Fair well!"

Now we know we can build it ourselves
But Oh! We stared so long
We forgot we were human


What do we need with the sun (we forgot we were human)
What do we need with the sun (Oh no, we forgot we were human)

What do we need with the sun (we forgot, we forgot we were human)
What do we need with the sun (Oh no)