i know you live on my street
i sometimes wonder
why we don´t meet
i´ve seen your face in the sky
twenty-five stories high
you never come down to earth
communication (communication)
could hardly be much worse
don´t keep me here in the dark
i want to be your friend
your fears are way off the mark

every generation
sees it their own way
never learning their lessons
making the same mistakes again

it´s not the same for us - as history fades away
it´s not the same for us - you must hear me when i say

look out on this brave new land
think of the future
the future that lays in our hands
our leaders live in the past
we can change it
there´s something to hope for at last

every generation
sees it their own way
why don´t we learn our lessons
don´t make the same mistakes again

(chorus)

what dreams are you chasing now?
what are you living for?
the problems that we´re facing now
nobody faced before
please don´t reject me
in anger or in sorrow
you´ve got to accept me
if we´re to make a better tomorrow

it´s not the same - it´s not the same for us