La canción Where Do the Children Play?, escrita por Cat Stevens, refleja las preocupaciones del compositor sobre el avance tecnológico y el impacto ambiental del progreso humano. La letra cuestiona el futuro de las próximas generaciones en un mundo cada vez más urbanizado y contaminado.
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Introducción:
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Well I think it's fine, building jumbo planes
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Or taking a ride on a cosmic train
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Switch on summer from a slot machine
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Yes, get what you want to if you want 'cos you can get anything
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I know we've come a long way, we're changing day to day
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But tell me, where do the children play?
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Well you roll on roads over fresh green grass
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For your lorryloads pumping petrol gas
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And you make them long, and you make them tough
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But they just go on and on, and it seems you can't get off
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I know we've come a long way, we're changing day to day
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But tell me, where do the children play?
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When you crack the sky, scrapers fill the air
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Will you keep on building higher
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'til there's no more room up there?
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Will you make us laugh, will you make us cry?
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Will you tell us when to live, will you tell us when to die?