when i grow up (interlude)

ok class ok everybody settle down

everybody settle down

um as you all know we've been working

real hard on getting our school essays done

does anybody have theirs to read first?

mr. evans my essay is ready

ok everybody sammie has the floor

when i grow up

i wonder if people will be more afraid

to cry than they are to die

will i be able to see a rainbow

in a smog-filled sky?

will there be any trees alive?

if not

how will the planet survive?

will the internet have a web-site at

www.lifetimeairsupply?

when i grow up

if i got bored and had nothing to do

and me and my son built a canoe

would water that used to be blue

be so polluted it would give us the flu?

will a thousand dollars be enough for a shoe?

will i have to be like you?

letting money make a decision

for everything that i do?

when i grow up

will the existence of dolphins and whales

just be story i tell?

starting with once upon a time."