Started with a bang Started with the light And all the minerals And metals taking flight Started in the water Came to the land Washing up amongst the rocks And on the sands Started in the the trees Carried on the breeze Came with the pollen And the birds and the bees Started with a spear Started with a fire Grew from survival to search something higher As seasons will change so will Empires return to the earth In blood or in gold as it falls Will you know what it's worth? What you're worth Started with a song Started with a word And with a beating of a drum And something shared It started in the mushrooms Grew on the spores Began a wonder that was mine and it was yours Started with a sail Started with the seeds Grew to a freedom from These elemental needs Started with a symbol Turn of a wheel Rode on the back Of something wild and something free As seasons will change so will Empires return to the earth In blood or in gold as it falls Will you know what it's worth? What you're worth Started with a war Started down a road And in the crowns Of all the kings upon their thrones Started with a debt Carried by a slave Came with a class That grew its fortune from a chain Started in a cell Started on a page And with the melting of the ice began a wave Started in the belly Started with a fight Began the turning of a Wheel that drew the strike As seasons will change so will Empires return to the earth In blood or in gold as it falls Will you know what it's worth? What you're worth