One-syllable Words (Arends Carolyn)

Psychobabble, legal-ese People earning Ph.Ds In Postmodern Paranoid Confusion Self-indulgent rhetoric Talk and talk until we're sick Of arguments that end with no conclusion Can't we make the point clear Maybe what we need here are One syllable words Faith, hope and love Truth, peace and trust One syllable words That's what we need, yeah To listen to us talk you'd think That twenty dollar words are cheap But answers can't be bought for any tender Constantly we complicate Pointlessly pontificate 'Til things are getting worse instead of better Look at how far we've come Maybe we should learn some One syllable words Faith, hope and love Truth, peace and trust One syllable words That's what we need, yeah Everybody knows them Maybe we should speak in One syllable words Faith, hope and love Truth, peace and trust One syllable words That's what we need, yeah Faith and hope and love Truth and peace and trust Dream and play and watch and pray Learn and live and laugh and give Reach and fly and seek and try With all your heart and soul and mind Yeah