Radical Ecology

Use it or lose it, the concept of survival
Win the competition, elimination of the rival
Running in the rat race of the dog-eat-dog elite
With power-hungry corporates competing to deplete
No rules and no regard for life, resources at full disposal
It's funny how this will to survive creates a threat to survival

Use it or lose it

Use it or lose it?, but if we use it, then it's gone
Before we started dressing up, we were born with clothes already on
And before we start speaking up, there must have been no need for words
Look at the direction this evolution heads towards
The way of life is to return from whence you came
The soil grows wood which burns to ash in a flame
Which become soil again, life interacts within itself like the food chain
So we're all interdependent upon having enough spawn
But the human mind has the capacity to control beyond
And so you see, it's our responsibility to be strong
But apparently mankind is the weak link
Because we think, we learned to speak, and so we wreak
Tragedy upon our fellow human beings
Never concerned with the fact, that our actions will make us extinct
Overpopulation, pollution, destruction
Government institution control over population turns to corruption
Seduction, temptation, distracting a nation
Until revolution, collapsing in mayhem
Needing evolution, what else could save them?
This applies to you then, time's a wastin'
And every morning you idle is potentially vital
To the message in the song, the title, we're all liable
Riding a horse with no bridle
And holding on strong, for survival

I hate to tell people how to live their life
Cause I haven't lived through the same type of strife
But I gotta help, and I see people in need
And what I know, I can't keep to me
You could ignore me and deny my words
Call me a nerd and absurd but those who observe
Just might be glad and better off
Although most people deny and often scoff
Because we're different, much different, you and I
By class, creed, gender, or the iris of my eye
But I can relate to you not relating
It's much easier to be concentrating on hating
After little debating, I blame it all on ignorance
And the fact that all humans want kids
But as a human I'll take the matter into my own hands
Recognize the fault of the Roman's roaded lands
Eliminate the need for boundary
Learn to live in harmony with all around me
Radical ecology, that's what I'm talking about
Cause if it's indirectly killing me, it isn't helping me out
You see, air conditioning makes you forget the heat
The automobile machine makes you forget your feet
The television screen makes you forget how to think
So you forget about pollution and the air we breathe
From supermarkets where we gotta buy we eat
To carpets, artificial grass, and fat slabs of concrete
We're all dependent on these lives of luxury
And you can understand why I say, "We're still in slavery"
Please, open your eyes and see
Realize and be, down the changes of radical ecology
Not against technology, specifically
But its methods of destructivity
We need a source of energy that is forever replenishing
Something like gravity so we can survive for eternity
Otherwise, eventually, humanity dies
We must strategize to prevent this tragic loss of lives

My environment creates me, so why do you want to blame me?
When I'm the product of your creation, there will always be
Resistance to persuasion of evil intents, as long as evil invents
Destructive developments to falsify environments
Of homosapien humans, that's me and you, man
That's why I say, "Wait, stop! Look what the hell are you doing?"