FUTURE [ country-pop ] Click Here for Music Video of this song Click Here for Free Song Download                  This morning I gazed into the future of the world                  Behind the trusting eyes of my little girl                  A future filled with hope for the coming year                  Behind a small brow furrowed in fear                  Of the future. . . and troubled eyes said                           Please fix my world while you have the chance                           Please don't leave my future up to circumstance                           Make sure I have enough fresh water to drink                           Clean air to breathe and freedom to think                           For myself. . . and my future                  Today I saw the future behind thirty pairs of eyes                  Thirty young children trusting me with their lives                  Assigned to my classroom by chance for a year                  Thirty small brows furrowed in fear                  Of the future. . . and troubled eyes said                           Please fix our world while you have the chance                           Please don't leave our future up to circumstance                           Make sure we have enough fresh water to drink                           Clean air to breathe and feedom to think                           For ourselves. . . and our future                  Bless the beasts and the children, forbid them not                  For the highest price their future has been bought                           Please help fix our world while we have the chance                           Don't leave our planet's future up to circumstance                           Make sure there is enough fresh water to drink                           Clean air to breathe and freedom to think                           About what matters. . . for the future                           Future * * Inspired by the “reverence for life” philosophy of Albert Schweitzer.  Dedicated to Jacques Yves Cousteau, Al Gore, Melissa Etheridge. . . and our future.             Copyright © by Richard Aberdeen ASCAP Copyright © by Freedom Tracks Music ASCAP          No part of this material may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including printing, photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from publisher. Inquiries:  Freedom Tracks Records.  Essays entitled Revolution and Revolution -- Side B are open copyright and may be reproduced or utilized as often as one likes.