TEXT I
Earth song
[1] What about sunrise
[2] What about rain
[3] What about all the things that you said
[4] We were to gain
[5] What about killing fields
[6] Is there a time
[7] What about all the things
[8] That you said were yours and mine
[9] Did you ever stop to notice
[10] All the blood we've shed before
[11] Did you ever stop to notice
[12] This crying Earth, these weeping shores
[13] What have we done to the world
[14] Look what we've done
[15] What about all the peace
[16] That you pledge your only son
[17] What about flowering fields
[18] Is there a time
[19] What about all the dreams
[20] That you said was yours and mine
[21] Did you ever stop to notice
[22] All the children dead from war
[23] Did you ever stop to notice
[24] This crying earth, these weeping shores
[25] I used to dream
[26] I used to glance beyond the stars
[27] Now I don't know where we are
[28] Although I know we've drifted far
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JACKSON, M. Disponível em: https://www.vagalume.com.br/. Acesso em: 07 ago. 2017.
[8] That you said were yours and mine
[9] Did you ever stop to notice
[10] All the blood we've shed before
[11] Did you ever stop to notice
[12] This crying Earth, these weeping shores
[13] What have we done to the world
[14] Look what we've done
[15] What about all the peace
[16] That you pledge your only son
[17] What about flowering fields
[18] Is there a time
[19] What about all the dreams
[20] That you said was yours and mine
[21] Did you ever stop to notice
[22] All the children dead from war
[23] Did you ever stop to notice
[24] This crying earth, these weeping shores
[25] I used to dream
[26] I used to glance beyond the stars
[27] Now I don't know where we are
[28] Although I know we've drifted far
[…]
JACKSON, M. Disponível em: https://www.vagalume.com.br/. Acesso em: 07 ago. 2017.
Sentences in lines 13 and 14 contribute to the general meaning of the song by indicating