The Other Way Round

I was walking along the shore one day
I picked up a rock and thew it away
It fell in the ocean and sank all the way down
Then I had a thought to throw in the rest of the ground

I dug and I shovelled, I swept and I threw
When my arms were worn out, I sucked in deep breaths and blew
The ocean started to fill and the land it did sink
I started standing on water, or was it land, I couldn't think

After many years of shovelling and throwing
The ocean was filled and the land it was flowing
Where once there was land, now all was sea
And where there was ocean, there landed the green

Someone called Jesus once walked on the wild open sea
Now I can too, but it's grass and it's green
Perhaps he once changed things round just like me
And now I've changed it back the way it should be

Now only if I could put the sea in the sky
The birds'd swim and we'd see an octopus fly by
Or if I put the ground in the sky and the sky in the ground
I'd make mozzies walk and bug them as I flew around

Now the cows fly by and the whales walk the land
I walk on water and so everything is just grand
Now all that I've changed makes me careful what I do
As I think what I've done I look up and see an elephant doing a poo!

I know I get confused but that's what you get
When you harvest beauty from nature they ought to chase you with a net
How can we dig up nature without a second thought
And then complain when we end up with naught!