Once a wand was waved And a wish came true When time was young That was all we had to do The world was free The earth was always rich And only wishing made it so But that was long ago Now times have changed And so have we Now no one knows the way to get us back Were we should be The world's begun to look her age And we're the ones who have to write tomorrow's page Is up to us, to lift the veil of doubt From these days we're living in A new beginning must begin And all the wishing in the world Won't put things right, but we just might But we just might