I know you live on my street
  I sometimes wonder
  why we don't meet
  I've seen your face in the sky
  twenty-five stories high
  you never come down to earth
  communication (communication)
  could hardly be much worse
  don't keep me here in the dark
  I want to be your friend
  your fears are way off the mark
  
  every generation
  sees it their own way
  never learning their lessons
  making the same mistakes again
  
  it's not the same for us - as history fades away
  it's not the same for us - you must hear me when I say
  
  look out on this brave new land
  think of the future
  the future that lays in our hands
  our leaders live in the past
  we can change it
  there's something to hope for at last
  
  every generation
  sees it their own way
  why don't we learn our lessons
  don't make the same mistakes again
  
  (Chorus)
  
  what dreams are you chasing now?
  what are you living for?
  the problems that we're facing now
  nobody faced before
  please don't reject me
  in anger or in sorrow
  you've got to accept me
  if we're to make a better tomorrow
  
  it's not the same - it's not the same for us