A fifteen-minute revolution In fifteen minutes answers clear In fifteen minutes we'll be better, smarter, wiser, stronger And we'll be without fear A lie broadcast across a nation A lie believed widely revered The lie is an atom bomb solution in a drop less ocean And we're all tired and it sounds so sincere So now we bury postage stamps under a roaring avalanche Of plastic surgery And cross out all the eyes of all the slow days of our lives Evolve at record speed Ask, Where did all the footsteps go? The journey's end before we ever leave I saw a single spotless raindrop Fall from a single darkened cloud It joined a single river carving a weaving canyon Through a thousand feet of ground And now I think today is water And now I think my life is sand And I think it will take years to erode and shape this shoreline That I am living into a better man