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What Are We Living For?

from to be alive under the sky. by motum.

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'What Are We Living For?' re-examines the human journey from a more negative standpoint. Here primitive man is juxtaposed with modern man, where stars have become screens, campfires have become TVs, caves have become modern homes and foraging has become shopping, suggesting that we are not so far from where we began, with 'nation tribes trading an eye for an eye' (where stones have become missiles).

On an environmental level, it is romantic about a more primitive time when humankind did not (knowingly) damage nature, but rather worshiped it, suggesting that we should be more grateful for the life-giving forces we take for granted, particularly the sun.

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All the stars are out tonight, from the lamps to the neon lights,
and the woods are out of sight (and out of mind),
…as we’re sitting in our caves, with our clocks and microwaves,
while the television flames burn through the night.

we hunt and forage for the bargains at the store,
yet we’re always wanting more…

**Chorus**
I heard someone asking ‘what are we living for?’
10 thousand years and what have we become?
Are we still creatures of our own desires?
In our nation tribes trading an eye for an eye.
And if everyone could say a prayer to the sun
or are we too “civilised” to accept how we begun.

Do you remember when we used to run… in the woods by the setting sun?
Well I wonder, why did we have to go and cut it down, and let the fires come?

Well you never knew what we have, until you let it go.
and do you wonder what these hands are for?
- Holding shopping bags and waving flags
or striking matches, and burning to ashes.

**Chorus**
I heard someone asking ‘what are we living for?’
10 thousand years and what have we become?
Are we still creatures of our own desires?
In our nation tribes trading an eye for an eye.
And if everyone could say a prayer to the sun
or are we too “civilised” to accept how we begun.

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from to be alive under the sky., released October 14, 2021
Sound-clip from Its a Our Mr Sun (1958, public domain)

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