all the world s a stage they say but who decides the parts we play a mourner in the lebanon a logger in the amazon soldiers in the square of shame our children play in acid rain they won t pay a martyr s bail black fella in a white man s jail see the banners fall hear the future call time to start again they re dancing on the wall can you hear them call see the banners fall the colonel wears pierre cardin but clothes don t always make the man the teacher preaches what he s told but can the preacher save your soul see the banners fall hear the future call time to start again they re dancing on the wall can you hear them call see the banners fall eagles in a sea of oil noble men on barren soil children waiting in the wings wonder what the future brings see the banners fall hear the future call time to start again they re dancing on the wall can you hear them call see the banners fall