Now is the time for a reckoning, now all is flowering and flourishing, God, help your children mindfully listen: soon there may be just a silent spring. Silent the voices in bush and tree, silent the creatures of air and sea, God, help your children mindfully listen: ours are the hands that took earth for free. We are the root of the earth's unease, we are the pirates who dredge the seas, God, help your children mindfully listen: ours is the creed doing as we please. We are the spenders of precious store, we are the greedy who take no score, God, help your children mindfully listen: ours are the mouths wanting more and more. We take the bounty of all you give, we are the sorrow that makes you grieve, God, help your children mindfully listen, mindfully choose how the world will live!