Y2, OK!

©2001 Garrett Clevenger

G My Grandma made me breakfast, the

C finest it could be. She

G scooped some grub out from the pot and

C Am gave a bowl to me. The

G first bite I took burned my lips, so

Em C I sat back to let them rest and

G Grammy told a story, un-

Em G doubtedly the best.

"Son," she said, "not long ago, your grandad won my heart.

When he held me close to him, I knew this was the start of a

Life of Love and a Love for Life, soon enough I was my man's wife. We

built our dreams upon our hopes and melted down the knife.

"The first dream that we had to live was a Life off of the land. We

built this house you're sleeping in and plowed the ground with our bare hands. We

braved the long, dark winter nights and blessed the glowing summer light. We

chose to live a simple Life and everything was right.

"By the springtime of '54, the war had brought a change.

Nuclear technology was now no longer strange.

'The Bear' brought terror to our Minds. They may drop bombs from the Sky.

Fear was our middle name 'cause we believed the lie.

"We built the bombs both night and day deep in secrecy. We

dumped our wastes in countless streams, our toxic legacy.

Silos sunk deep beneath. Warheads floating in every sea.

No one knows where they all are, nor just how many.

"We've just been through '99, now 2000's here. We

have a chance to bring it back, what we once saw so clear.

Living simply off the land, building dreams with our bare hands,

sharing skills with neighborhoods, not fearing distant sands."

Her words sank deep into my head, her food in my belly.

As they stirred and turned inside, I now began to see. The

more we fear, the more we lose, now's the time for us to choose to

turn 2000 into a time that only has good news.