David Roth – Pearl Diver
 I was living very happy
 When they came to me
 Offered riches for the pearls
 Way down in the sea
 
 So I became a pearl diver
 Held my breath as I went down
 Caught my foot between two rocks
 And drowned
 
 Now I am sitting under water
 Watching things fall in
 Sinking with the weight of knowledge
 Greed, desire and sin
 
 Now I am eternal witness
 To the tide that man has turned
 Pity he will never know
 The things that I have learned
 
 The submarines go underneath
 The battleships above
 And the divers keep on coming
 Putting prices on their love
 
 And I can taste the toxic waters
 Hear every splash of waste
 I see how man has used the sea
 Diluting his distaste
 
 The fishes tell me they would like to
 Throw a hook up on the land
 Snag a man and drag him under
 Put him in a can
 
 Watch him fight to breathe the water
 Buy him in a store
 Cut him up to be their dinner
 Throw the bones on shore
 
 Dump their garbage overground
 Invade the air with greed
 Exploit the wind and use the land
 For things that they don’t need
 
 I was living very happy
 Until they came to me
 Offered riches for the pearls
 Way down in the sea
 
 My dream is to be cremated
 Not swaying with the tide
 But because I wanted more
 Than God had given me I died