Suburban Wasteland Verison 2
Still about my hometown, but this time it sounds a little better and has an exciting chorus.
A solo punk band with songs ranging from politics to social issues to evolutionary biology.
Lacking any real musical talent, I decided to use Punk-o-Matic to create some generic punk backgrounds to the various songs I had written. Recorded at low quality through a computer microphone, the songs are not musical masterpieces but the lyrics are still strong. Give it a listen, you might enjoy it.
Story behind the song
How suburbia is destroying our country and the world. This is the newer version to one of the first songs I recorded.
Lyrics
Neatly trimmed grass spreads the countryside,
Laced with fertilizer, weed killers, pesticide,
Everything kept so nice, it all looks so clean,
Habitats destroyed to make our grass more green,
Preservation a sin, today’s petty annoyance,
“Thin out their numbers,” they say without clairvoyance,
Another species succumbs to our suburban superficialities,
Sprawling without order, we forget our own mortality.
In the Suburban Wasteland
Spending all we can
In the Suburban Wasteland
Growing without a plan
In the Suburban Wasteland
What is this course we’ve ran?
In the Suburban Wasteland
Is this American?
Every year a thousand fruitful acres fall,
To another arm of this suburban sprawl,
Throw up the houses, find another spot,
Cut down these woods for this parking lot,
Pave the fertile valleys, erect concoctions of concrete,
The Jungle has been conquered, Nature admits defeat,
Irreversible damage has already been levied,
What’s it to you if they chop down another tree?
In the Suburban Wasteland
Spending all we can
In the Suburban Wasteland
Growing without a plan
In the Suburban Wasteland
What is this course we’ve ran?
In the Suburban Wasteland
Is this American?
You can try to run away but there’s no where to go,
Run down by a motorist on worn-out-country roads,
Protection from the city thanks to these gated communities,
But traveling between them requires a gas guzzling SUVs,
So many pollutants spewed into the ozone layer,
Do you ever wonder if our descendents have a prayer?
Where is the conclusion, how will it all end?
That is the great mystery of this Suburban Wasteland.
In the Suburban Wasteland
Spending all we can
In the Suburban Wasteland
Growing without a plan
In the Suburban Wasteland
What is this course we’ve ran?
In the Suburban Wasteland
Is this American?
