Dams are for Beavers Let the wild run free Cause I'm a believer In humanity What did birds do before telephone wires Did forests exist before we fought their fires I'm a citizen of sand I'm a California choir I was raised on songs and moving water Raised on rocks in the creek Dams are for Beavers Let the wild run free Cause I'm a believer In humanity On a river in Nepal there's a woman on the wall With a hammer and a harness and a hundred foot fall She dams the river and drowns the home Her family's been livin' since before she was born She keeps pounding away, she makes five fifty a day And the work puts food on the table Dams are for Beavers Let the wild run free Cause I'm a believer In humanity There's a river in Austin that they a call a lake And I swear it moves when I really concentrate Few people in town can tell which way is down stream It makes no difference at least nobody's drowning Dammed fifteen times but who's really counting At least we have air conditioning And oh my god We live in this world, we can't run away And oh my god I've been staring at screen, I ain't been out all day And oh my god Take me river, take me down to pray Dams are for Beavers Let the wild run free Cause I'm a believer In humanity Dams are for Beavers Let the wild run free-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee-ee Cause I'm a believer In humanity Yeah, I'm a believer In humanity