Story Behind The Song
Asking questions about the way the world is: pollution, wars, injustice, poverty...and why do we look away from these problems?
Song Description
Asking questions about the way the world is: pollution, wars, injustice, poverty...and why do we look away from these problems?
| Song Length |
4:10 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Folk - Contemporary |
| Tempo |
Medium (111 - 130) |
Mood |
Worried, Troubled |
| Subject |
General, World |
Similar Artists |
Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash |
| Language |
English |
Era |
1960 - 1969 |
Lyrics
How Much, How Many?
How much, how many for whom and what for; Commodities sold every day.
People competing to sell off their goods, destroying the ones in their way.
Chorus :
God never meant us to live life like that, the answers are easily seen.
Just lift up your eyes and look to the skies, pray that we'll last one more day (2x)
2.
Car Fumes and factories, poisonous gas; our children are dying to breathe.
The green things are dying, the waters' turned black; the earth is beginning to bleed.
Chorus:
God never meant us to live life like that. The answer is easily seen.
Just lift up your eyes and look to the skies, pray that we'll last one more day (2x)
3.
Wide eyed and innocent sacrifice lamb, a child is homeless tonight.
Across town someone just pulls down the shade and silently turns out the lights.
Chorus:
God never meant us to live life like that. The answers are easily seen.
Just lift up your eyes and look to the skies. Pray that we'll last one more day (2x)
4.
There's men who are fighting, there's dead and there's dying;
There's men who just keep the score.
We send postcards and letters to make them feel better,
But still no one ends these wars.
Chorus:
God never meant us to live lifelike that, the answers are easily seen.
Just lift up your eyes and look to the skies, pray that we' last one more day (4x)