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.