The Copenhagen song. Half Christmas download proceeds to 3 charities Amnesty, Oxfam, and Cancer Research UK. Also available from iTunes via www.the-ukrainian.co.uk. Video at www.youtube.com/ukrainianmusicvideo
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Story behind the song
Topically renamed "the Copenhagen Song" this is song that deals with most topical issues facing our planet today. Originally a Christmas song idea which hit number 6 out of over 800 entries for Soundclick European Trad genre for Christmas 2008, I thought an issue that affects us every day of the year deserved a perennial "World Music" remix.
Also available at iTunes via http://www.the-ukrainian.co.uk
Lyrics
One Address: Planet Earth
The flowers that were growing here
Will blossom here no more
The hearts and minds of bureaucrats
Are rotten to the core
There’s no investigation
And no builders hesitation
As the playing field makes way
For yet another shopping mall.
The trees that once were growing here
Are learning of their fate
The bricks and slabs are piling up
To build a new estate
The trees end up as household wood
We’re told it’s for the public good
And not to worry
Saving earth is something that can wait.
As species our divisions are
The mountains and the seas.
So why do we spend time and effort
Making more than these?
When it comes to caring
For the rock on which we live
All we’ve done is take and take
But no one wants to give.
Temperatures are rising now
And so are all the seas,
And gas and coal and oil use
And emissions from all these.
If nuclear ‘s an option
Then what lesson does it take
To make us learn and not repeat
Chernobyl’s big mistake?
The animals keep vanishing
As we proliferate
Then we spend time destroying
Other humans that we hate.
If aliens are watching us
They’ll give this place a miss
And keep it from their children
Hoping ignorance is bliss.
As forests turn to open fields
And fields then turn to sand
How will we tell our children
That they just don’t understand?
The world that we are giving them’s
Becoming a disgrace
A testament of failure
To the stupid human race.
So let me tell you something
If I may, for what its worth
We all have one address
And that address is Planet Earth.
And an ironic playout (to the tune of Rule Britannia) :
Let me tell you
One thing for what it's worth
Only Nature rules the waves on Earth!
Stepan Pasicznyk 31/3/06