Listen, from the moment an ape picked up a thigh bone

The fate of the planet was placed into the unknown

Within a blink along the planetary timeline

Human beings developed to dominate, once considered

Fate and the Divine, now known of the decline

Of the overall health of the planet can be defined

Of humankind’s rise to prominence, global dominance 

Wealth inequity is a Tragedy of the Commons

So ironic, how we’re the cause and effect

Deserving of a moment now to pause and reflect

How we got here, overhunting thanks to gluttony

Look around, see resources depleting suddenly

An unfortunate side effect of the evolved

Inherently flawed, way too many queries to solve 

Resources are limited, free thought is prohibited

Yet, as a human I must remain inquisitive

Technology, both a tool and a crutch

Solutions to forward movement like double dutch

It’s all timing, will we come through in the clutch? 

Or will it all fade away like dust? 

I don’t know

Yo we started off small

First you walk then you crawl

Came up and you changed the world

We came from the dirt, all the changes to earth 

For better or worse, man we changed the world 

We can thrive, we can fly 

If we learn from the past and apply 

From cavemen to spacemen we made mistakes

But it ain’t too late 

We can change the world

Embrace the hunger to explore what’s unknown

Build a better future by sliding back like trombones

And then blasting forward without control, like animals

Using the tools wrong, not consulting the manual

Blame our social nature and devotion to our missions

But use that skill to build a world without divisions

With knowledge in abundance, we start by thinking clearer

With guidance from the past, glancin’ through the mirror

We rose from primordial soup, outcompeting through the creed

Self awareness, contemplating “to be”

But recently in the timeline we had an explosion

Of technological feats of scientific devotion 

We propel the few light years just to pursue

Our dreams of finding other like-beings to share the view 

Through the hardships, begin to assail, we prevail

Through the economies of scale, we rise and pierce the veil

Of colonizing the stars, refusing to ever fail

Rise as high on the Kardashev Scale as we can scale

A cultural evolution, amplifying the future

The literal sky is the limit, now it’s time to get it 

Yo we started off small

First you walk then you crawl

Came up and you changed the world

We came from the dirt, all the changes to earth 

For better or worse, man we changed the world 

We can thrive, we can fly 

If we learn from the past and apply 

From cavemen to spacemen we made mistakes

But it ain’t too late 

We can change the world

From stone age apes with rage so stone-hearted 

To the information age, yet constantly outsmarted

So in the space age we’ll fly. But without a direction

We need a new age, one of reflection

So here’s a goal that we can bond with, consider it

Planetary consciousness, to new horizons

The best time for action: right this second 

Strategize tactics, uniting all the factions

From cavemen to spacemen 

We done made mistakes, and

It ain’t too late 

We can change the world

From cavemen to spacemen 

We done made mistakes, yeah

But it ain’t too late 

We can change the world