We Do Belong To The Land

When people talk of land ownership they talk of a deed of title that to it that has their name But the land is not owned by anybody the land was here before people to it came Millions of years before the birth of the first human the land we live on it was here The land will be around forever and I may not be living next year Land has caused bloodshed, sorrow and suffering and millions fighting for it have died But that the land can exist without us is a fact that cannot be denied The land is Nature and our Earth Mother and to the land we do belong And those who talk of land ownership in reality have got it wrong You can will the deed of your home and land to your son or daughter but as we know facts never lie And the facts say that we are mere mortals and all mortals are born to die the land in fact is our Earth Mother and we must return to her one day And how can we own what we belong to do you get what I am trying to say Of the land we are only tenants that may seem hard to understand For we cannot own what we belong to and we do belong to the land.