Someone's Gonna Use It

Tom Chapin

Someone’s Gonna Use It
When you stand at the sink, did you ever think
about the water running down the drain,
that it used to be in the deep blue sea,
and before that, it was rain?
Then it turned to snow for an Eskimo
to use in a snowball fight,
Then it floated south
til it reached your mouth,
to help you brush your teeth tonight. (Wait!)

Someone’s gonna use it after you!
Someone needs that water when you’re through
‘Cause the water, land and air, (rest)
These are things we’ve got to share,
Someone’s gonna use it after you.

When you sneeze like thunder,
did you ever wonder if the air you set in motion,
might have helped to form a tropical storm,
way out in the western ocean?
Though the wind blown out of a blue whale spout
as he dove beneath the seas,
and now that air is your care
‘til your finished with your sneeze, Ah Ah Ah…
Someone’s gonna use it (rest) “Ah-choo”!
Someone needs to breathe it when you’re through
‘Cause the water land and air,
These are things we’ve got share.
Someone’s gonna use it after you.
Like a wheel the world is turning,
Forest green and sky of blue,
it will turn that way forever as the old is born anew.
Someone’s gonna use it after you!
So leave it as you like it, when you’re through.
‘Cause the water, land and air,
These are things we’ve got to share,
Someone’s gonna use it after you.
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Lyrics submitted by Jane.

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