We Are Not Helpless

[Floogeldy]

We are not helpless, we are men
What lies between us
It can be set aside and ended

Everyday we learn more how to hate
We shut the door
And then we tell ourselves we can't relate

Only to the ones who are the same
Yet even they are different
And ever so they shall remain

All are strangers
All are friends
All are brothers

Open up my friend, and learn to hear
For even lying
When it has nothing you should fear

If you cannot let yourself be known
By anyone
Then you are hiding and not whole

All are strangers
All are friends
All are brothers

We, your children, we would ask you all
Please do not hide your eyes
And listen when we call

We will whisper, shout or make a scene
We are the answer
For we can live the peace we dream

All are strangers
All are friends
All are brothers, oh yeah, oh yeah

Yes, America's children
Are askin' everybody some questions about how it is

Yes, America's children
Are makin' it hard to look them in the eyes

America's children
Are makin' it hard to live lies, you know, whoa, it is

And America's children
Are diggin' that everywhere children
Are diggin' we live on the earth
We live on the earth, we live on the earth right now
Yes, and it's right on, children of the earth, and it's right on
Children of the earth, and it's right on
Children of the earth and it's right on, right on, yeah

This is what has made our nation free
For life is change
And only blind men cannot see

The new order is upon us now
It is the children
They have the wisdom to be free

All are strangers
All are friends
All are brothers

Words and music by Stephen Stills

[Heidi]

1. ( ! )

I was thinking this very thing, though not nearly so eloquently, this morning:

"Everyday we learn more how to hate
We shut the door
And then we tell ourselves we can't relate . . ."

[Floogeldy]

2. U R a deep thinker

B-)

[Heidi]

3. Don't hold it against me.

(Please.)

[Floogeldy]

4. Never

B-)

[saltpoint]

5. When a post like this comes by it's like someone leaving a --

-- light in the window for all the lost ramblers outside in the darkness.

No surprise at all that this was your post, Floog.

Thanks.

[Floogeldy]

7. Thanks, friend

But give Stills the credit. I haven't checked, but I think those lyrics are about thirty years old. They seem to have relevance to today, don't they?

B-)

[saltpoint]

8. They do, yes. There are some compositions that are so good --

-- the lyrics, the music itself, and the delivery of the musicians and vocalists -- that it sounds as if they were written this morning and not decades ago.

Stills has several like that.

[Robeson]

6. Great song, great album.

[BikeWriter]

9. Uh, we're not?