History Starts Now

This idea is based on a song by Five for Fighting called World. The lyrics are below.

This song has sent all sorts of thoughts going through my head, and I'm hoping something good can come out of it all, not just for me, but for others.

Using whatever artistic venue you wish, respond to the song. Answer the question of what you would do with the world if you could start it over. Write a journal, do a collage, paint or draw a picture, whatever you want. Make it as simple or as complicated as you want. This is YOUR world. Tell your partner about it, in words or images. There's no right or wrong way to do it, just do it how you want. Discuss whatever issues you want. It matters not, so long as you can satisfy yourself that you have represented your thoughts and ideas in an adequate fashion.

You can choose to explain anything at all or nothing at all to your partner. If your partner has questions, you can answer them or say that you want your work to stand for itself. Take it wherever you want.

Sign-up date is months away, the send date the beginning of the next month. Feel free to start it whenever you want. If anyone feels more time is needed to work on it, please let me know and I'll move the send date farther off. I don't want people to feel rushed.

History starts now. What will you do with it?

World

Got a package full of wishes
A time machine, a magic wand
A globe made out of gold
No instructions or commandments,
Laws of gravity or indecisions to uphold
Printed on the box I see: ACME's Build a World to Be.
Take a chance, grab a piece
Help me to believe it

What kind of world do you want
Think anything
Let’s start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now

Should there be people or peoples
Money, funny pedestals
For fools who never pay
Raise your army, choose your steeple
Don’t be shy, the satellites can look the other way
Lose the earthquakes, keep the faults
Fill the oceans without the salt
Let every man own his own hand.
Can you dig it baby?

What kind of world do you want
Think anything
Let’s start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now

Sunlight’s on the bridge
Sunlight’s on the way
Tomorrow’s calling
There’s more to this than love

What kind of world do you want
What kind of world do you want
What kind of world do you want
Think anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece

History starts now
Starts now
Be careful what you wish for

Start now
Now...

Performed by Five for Fighting