When the ebbing Tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline It leaves a trail Of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic planet A complete society ♪ A simple kind of mirror To reflect upon our own All the busy little creatures Chasing out their destinies Living in their pools They soon forget about the sea ♪ Wheel within wheels in a spiral array A pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes can't see their effects ♪ A quantum leap forward In time and space The universe learned to expand ♪ Mess and magic Triumphant and tragic A mechanized world out of hand ♪ Computerized clinic For superior cynics Who dance to a synthetic band In their own image Heir world is fashioned No wonder they don't understand ♪ Wheel within wheels in a spiral array A pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes can't see their effects ♪ Science, like nature, must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same state, state of integrity It will surely serve us well ♪ Art as expression Not as market campaigns Will still capture our imaginations Given the same state of integrity It will surely help us along ♪ The most endangered species, the honest man Will still survive annihilation Forming a world, a state of integrity Sensitive, open, and strong ♪ Wave after wave will flow with the tide And bury the world as it does Tide after tide will flow and recede Leaving life to go on as it was