Our History Will Be What We Make of It-Maybeshewill

[ti:Our History Will Be What We Ma] [ar:Maybeshewill] [al:Sing The Word Hope In Four-Part Harmony] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Our History Will Be What We Make of It - Maybeshewill [00:34.13]Our history will be what we make it [00:35.91] [00:37.39]And if there are any historians [00:39.18]About 50 or 100 years from now [00:40.94]And there should be preserved [00:42.29]The kinescopes of one week of all three networks [00:44.57] [00:45.80]They will there find [00:46.97]Recorded in black and white and in color [00:48.88] [00:50.03]Evidence of decadence escapism [00:52.00]And insulation from [00:53.03]The realities of the world in which we live [00:54.94] [01:00.46]We are currently wealthy [01:01.87]Fat comfortable and complacent [01:03.90] [01:05.08]We have a built-in allergy [01:06.83]To unpleasant or disturbing information [01:08.42] [01:09.00]Our mass media reflect this [01:10.67] [01:12.17]But unless we get up off [01:13.60]Our fat surpluses and recognize [01:15.76]That television in the main is being used to distract [01:18.94]Delude amuse and insulate us [01:21.60]Then history will take its revenge [01:23.29]And retribution will not limp in catching up with us [01:25.61] [02:21.10]It may be that the human race is doomed [02:23.31]Never to learn from its mistakes [02:24.77] [02:26.24]We are the only animals on this globe [02:28.47] [02:29.29]Who periodically set out to slaughter [02:32.41]Each other for the best the noblest [02:35.81]The most inescapable of reasons [02:37.45] [02:38.44]We know better But we do it again [02:41.69]And again in generation after generation [02:44.09] [02:46.95]It may be that our empire too [02:49.51]Is doomed like all those that [02:51.59]Have gone before it to continue [02:54.01]To spew and waste its best blood on foreign soil [02:58.46] [02:59.21]No matter what we say or do in this place or think [03:03.64]Or believe or have learned from history [03:06.34] [03:07.74]But thank God for us