This is all wrong
I shouldn't be up here
I should be back in school
On the other side of the ocean
You all come to us young people for hope
How dare you?

You have stolen my dreams
My childhood
With your empty words
And yet
I'm one of the lucky ones
People are suffering
People are dying
Entire ecosystems are collapsing
We are at the beginning of a mass extinction
And all you can talk about
Is money
And fairy tales of eternal economic growth
How dare you!

How dare you pretend?

For more than 30 years
The science has been crystal clear
How dare you continue to look away?
And come here
Saying you're doing enough
When the politics and solutions needed
Are still nowhere in sight

You say you hear us
And that you understand the urgency
But no matter how sad and angry I am
I do not want to believe that
Because if you really understood the situation
And still kept on failing to act
Then you would be evil
And that I refuse to believe

And change is coming

The world is waking up (yeah)

You like it or not
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here
We draw the line

Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here, right now
Right here
The world is waking up