demo for DePotorLand with vocal and guitar by George Potor
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Story behind the song
Written for DePotorLand to perform at the 2011 Hiroshima Day Memorial in Lewisburg PA
Lyrics
Help me answer these questions
VERSE 1:
Fukushimas a-plenty,
Toxins from above and from below
Natural gas under pressure,
Not the way we oughta go.
And I hope to see:
Expectant mothers, farmers’ markets on a Friday,
Traffic in an alternating merge,
Water filters, healthy girls and long, tall boys,
Standing judges, sitting armies, singing birds.
CHORUS:
Chaos or community?
Which of the two is it gonna be?
Living in fear or planting a tree?
I wanna answer these questions
Help me answer these questions
I’ve avoided these questions
Before.
VERSE 2:
Unidentified illness,
Temperatures that no one can explain.
Radiation running higher,
Power’s out again today.
And I hope to hear:
Saws and hammers raising up a roof,
Storytellers spinning out a yarn,
Family farmers baling up the hay,
Music blasting from the rafters in the barn.
CHORUS
VERSE 3:
Another lab’ratory sample,
Testing out our food supply,
Tiny trace o’ dioxin,
Sick of always staying inside.
I hope to know:
Aging authors, architects, visionary miners,
Laughing children skipping stones along the shore,
Younger skeptics, wealthy artists, vegan poets, cattlemen,
Living in a world without war.
CHORUS
