An environmental anthem I wrote to help save trees. Kenneth Lavrsen did the backing, arrangement, mix, etc.
Stan loves music, is published (EMI/Capitol), and has experience performing on radio and TV when it was live in the good old days. These days he's just writing
Songwriter of pop, country, inspirational songs. I like to write. I travel a lot to Asia...so my music may have an Asian influence.
Lyrics
Painted For Free
© July 25, 2012 Stan Loh
Verse 1
E
Look over yonder,
A E
Over the hills and trees,
E
Something to ponder,
A E
Looks like the colours of free,
D E
The colours of rainbows that spread over hundreds of miles,
D E
They hang in the great sky like murals that fly,
A E
Cause they’re painted…painted for free,
A E
Oh painted … painted for you and me,
B7 A E
Painted … painted for you and me,
Verse 2
E
Our homes all in danger,
A E
They gasp for air to breathe,
E
Governments wager,
A E
Everything future sees,
D E
They don’t care about meadows and waterway springs,
D E
As long as their pockets are lined with ruby red rings,
A E
Cause they’re tainted … they’re abrogated,
A E
Oh tainted … yet we believed,
B7 A E
Tainted … made laws for you and me,
Bridge
C
How long can we hold our breath,
G
Scared to death, yet not act, no regrets, soon forget,
C D
Don’t we care rivers die, seas go dry, children cry,
F C A E / E/ E
Asking why … why? … why?
Verse 3
E
Conscience bites my behind,
A E
Each lake we pollute,
E
Knowing that I’m unkind,
A E
Ready with lame excuse,
D E
It takes a tree to make a box of matches,
D E
But it takes those matches to kill salmon hatches,
A E
Cause we’ve wasted … wasted the trees,
A E
Those streams dry … though painted for free,
B7 A E
Wasted … our home for you and me.
Man Stan what's not to like.Love it.Just had to Tweet it.