Climate change has dominated my thoughts for a good while now and I ended up writing this song a few months back with some thoughts I had about it. But what good is a song about global warming and the state of the world if it's not released? So yesterday, I recorded a version of it in my backroom which I'm releasing here as a charity single.
Obviously, bandcamp will take their cut, but any money that I receive for the single will all go directly to the World Land Trust which is a charity that has been protecting habitats across the world for a number of years and is a charity I've been paying into for a while now. Apart from changing the way I live personally, this has seemed like the next best way to try to help to combat global warming and to try to help preserve some precious environments and species around the world.
This won't raise much money but it will raise some and every pound counts so thank you for purchasing it!
Also, the amazing photo I used for the cover art was from photographer Matt Palmer (unsplash.com/@mattpalmer)
lyrics
You know we’re running, running out of time,
The more that we focus on our own little lives,
I guess a problem is the world it seems the same,
In our own little empires where the rules they never change.
I see flooding and forest on the news,
Towns buried in landslides and folks with no food,
The waters rising as the ice it quickly melts,
As we stack our plates higher and think of ourselves.
Everything’s fine.
Everything’s fine.
Gotta have more, gonna have pain,
Let our oceans turn to acid, let the acid fall like rain,
The science was clear so we’re all to blame,
Let the lungs of the Earth burn like a cancer through the brain.
Preserve the right to ignore the truth,
Spend billions of dollars sending millionaire’s to the moon,
We’ve seen the pictures, we’ve seen the proof,
Evolution means nothing to the profit driven noose.
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