《Children of Africa》歌词

[00:00:07] Man is a singular creature

[00:00:12] He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals

[00:00:18] So that unlike them he is not a figure in the landscape

[00:00:23] He is the shaper of the landscape

[00:00:27] We are all children of Africa Children of Africa

[00:00:32] They say this is where it all began

[00:00:37] In a parched African landscape

[00:00:40] Man first put his foot to the ground

[00:00:48] Africa was our only home

[00:00:51] For tens of thousands of years

[00:00:53] Until a small handful of people made their way out of africa

[00:00:59] These beings with soaring imagination

[00:01:04] Eventually flung themselves and their machines

[00:01:18] Into interplanetary space

[00:01:25] We are all children of africa

[00:01:30] This landscape has been home to humans

[00:01:33] Two hundred thousand years

[00:01:35] We have come so far

[00:01:38] All of this is cause for great celebration

[00:01:41] We have come so far

[00:01:42] This is a story about us

[00:01:46] Those early Europeans

[00:01:49] Were people like you and me

[00:01:52] But it is humbling

[00:01:54] When you see the challenges they faced

[00:01:56] People like you and me

[00:02:00] Overcame the Neanderthals

[00:02:02] People like you and me

[00:02:05] Made it through the ice age

[00:02:07] These beings with soaring imagination

[00:02:13] Eventually flung themselves and their machines

[00:02:16] Into interplanetary space

[00:02:23] We are not the only beings

[00:02:25] With personalities minds and feelings

[00:02:28] Chimpanzees have very clear personalities minds and feelings

[00:02:34] Take a chimp brain foetally

[00:02:36] And let it go two or three more rounds of division

[00:02:40] And out comes symphonies and ideology

[00:02:44] Everything that we are

[00:02:47] That distinguishes us from chimps

[00:02:49] Emerges from that one percent difference in DNA

[00:02:53] People like you and me

[00:02:58] Overcame the Neanderthals

[00:02:59] People like you and me

[00:03:03] Made it through the ice age

[00:03:05] These beings with soaring imagination

[00:03:11] Eventually flung themselves and their machines

[00:03:14] Into interplanetary space

[00:03:17] These beings with soaring imagination

[00:03:20] Eventually flung themselves and their machines

[00:03:25] Into interplanetary space

[00:03:30] Using his burgeoning intelligence

[00:03:32] This most successful of all mammals

[00:03:35] Has exploited the environment to produce food

[00:03:38] For an ever increasing population

[00:03:41] Instead of controlling the environment

[00:03:43] For the benefit of the population

[00:03:46] Perhaps it's time we controlled the population

[00:03:48] To allow the survival of the environment