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