Build a Better World - The Leading Notes: Impington Village College

The ‘Leading Notes’ composing and singing group from Impington Village Community College respond to seeing news from war-torn areas and their realization that children who are unsafe or on the move fleeing these situations often have no access to education.

Lyrics

Walking down a dusty road

Children's eyes are full of hope

They're chasing their wildest dreams

While sitting in this hopeless scene

They don't get to go to school

Their potential's never full

It's our job to make this right

Broken birds can still take flight

Without the foundation

Of our education

They can't build a better world

And it's easy to forget

Our fortune and good fate

And it's easy to remember

The subjects that we hate

But we can fly on wisdom's wings

So when we hear the caged birds sing

So let them fly, touch the sky

Build a better world

In a distant better world

I hear laughing boys and girls

Echo off the classroom walls

I see their ghosts across the hall

Without the foundation

Of our education

They can't build a better world

 And it's easy to forget

Our fortune and good fate

And it's easy to remember

The subjects that we hate

But we can fly on wisdom's wings

So when we hear the caged birds sing

Let them fly, touch the sky

Build a better world.

They sit on that dirty road

While we sit in the classroom

They cry out for enough to eat

While exams drown us in our gloom

They sleep on the pavements

While we sleep in our beds

We moan about homework

While they're trapped in their heads

Without the foundation

Of our education

They can't build a better world

And it's easy to forget

Our fortune and good fate

And it's easy to remember

The subjects that we hate

But we can fly on wisdom's wings

So when we hear the caged birds sing

Let them fly, touch the sky

Build a better world