Lyrics
Hey I got a story I promise won’t bore ye’, not love and glory, not scary or gory,
It ain’t going to moralise, or patronise, antagonise or spin no lies
I ain’t peddlin’ belief, I got no blessed relief, no palliative, just a feeling of grief
A questioning why, a helpless sigh, a tear in my eye, an’ the truth to deny
Our spaceship Earth, mankind’s only berth, our empires true worth, is feeling a dearth
Of care and attention, a sense of direction, some good intention, thought I should mention
This world has been shattered and all that mattered, bloodied and battered, torn up and scattered
It’s raped and it’s plundered, cannoned and sundered, poisoned and hungered, meddled and blundered
I’m singing this song for the Earth
I don’t think we know what she’s worth
We live on the skin of a bubble
An’ we’re turning it all into rubble
Consumptions the name, money’s the game, it’s business to blame, they’re immune to shame
Money is earned from the forests they burned, nothing returned and nature is spurned
Promises are made but bribes get paid, the developers invade, and memories fade
Consume what they make, in mountain and lake, make no mistake, give them their take
Well I ain’t too sure I got any cure, for all we endure, our intentions are pure
You got your charities, they’re your vanities, insanities, to throw back at me
I don’t wanna’ decry, the things that we try, but while we still buy they don’t apply
Our democracy is built on hypocrisy, a commercial autocracy, yeah that’s what I see
I’m singing this song for the Earth
I hope you all know her true worth
There’s no other place we can live
So we all need to learn how to give
We pay the last bill as the chemicals spill, the watercourses fill and the animals take ill
In a chemical defeat, our atmosphere’s beat, it soaks up the heat, an’ makes glaciers retreat
Sea levels rise, in front of your eyes, their currents revise causing flood plain demise
We’re changing the weather, not just now but forever, can’t go back whenever, through later endeavour
So there’s no happy ending, to this story I’m vending, no fixing or mending, it’s just heart rending
There’s no-one to blame, they don’t have one name, there’s no-one to shame, we’re all in this game
It’s a failure of nerve, to think that your verve, your desire to serve, postpones what we deserve
It isn’t right, that with all our insight, all our power and might, we should snuff out the light
I’m singing my song for the Earth
I want you to know what she’s worth
We’re between a rock and hard space
We must learn to live here in grace
We must learn to live here in grace
We must learn to live here in grace
