You wake up in the morning and feel the change
Optimism unbound it's a brand new day
The derelicted past just seems so strange
Peace walks within you, serenity regained
You open up your diary and turn the page
Edit out contempt and pain and rage
The meek and talented take center stage
Prisoners are released to earn an honest wage
Tidal waves spare castles in the sand
The left and the right wing are holding hands
Emperors let go of their conquered lands
Masters teach Zen to adrenaline glands
Parents and priests don't seek to chasten
All the children's seat-belts are fastened
Our fears never interfere with passions
You wonder if yesterday really happened

CHORUS:
Somewhere in the corner of our mind
Lies the sanctity we live to find
Around that ray of light our spirits swirl
That our lives are just the nightmare of a perfect world

The bum on the street's askin' for flowers
Princes and kings relinquish their powers
The only congress is flocking birds
One whole world not split into thirds
Conflicts are over before you know it
Cops and generals get jobs as poets
The whole world knows of no disease
If it did healthcare would come for free
All there is is peace we close the courts
We don't need gasoline we can teleport
Fertile earth beneath and blue skies above
No desire for divorce cause we're all in love
Everyone takes inches and gives a mile
Cows give their flesh with a blissful smile
No one is forsaken all have their place
Watched over by machines of loving grace

CHORUS

It's the best damn feeling you could ever feel
Then it's 7am and you wake up for real
Leave a house you don't own for a job you hate
Surrender your life put food on your plate
Mass murder on demand on CNN
North Korea has the bomb we're at war again
Look out your apartment to a world so bleak
If life is so vicious why not stay asleep
Every living thing is born to sacrifice
Our savage world won't become a paradise
As hard as you may pray you cannot rearrange
You've got to face there's things you can't change
But no matter how wicked to world may seem
There's always a place reserved for your dreams
In the darkest night we find a way through
As long as you're alive paradise lives in you