Costing the Earth
You've choked me for 200 years
And never paid me back arrears
Now I've unleashed your greatest fears
Our forests burn, a tinder box
Sea levels rise to drown the docks
I'll have more spasms, seismic shocks
You're costing the earth and you'll find that quite costly
There'll be a dearth in new earths when you realize you've lost me
You keep force-feeding me poison
I can't take any more
So I'll cough and spit till my ribs split
And we will breathe no more
Why did you inflict this on me?
I'm all you've got and I was free
You can't survive on Mercury
You're parasitic like a worm
Took took took at every turn
You've breached the point of no return
Disaster wrought faster than I've ever blinked
I'm counting down 'til you join the extinct
You keep force-feeding me poison
I can't take any more
So I'll cough and spit till my ribs split
And we will breathe no more
Short term gain breeds long term pain
With rising record temperatures and bi-polar rain
Colossal fools craving fossil fuels
Keep drilling me - it's killing me - I wish they'd just down tools
Instead it's war for oil, bloodied sand and bloodied soil
The rich get richer as the rest of you toil
There's plagues of locusts and rising damp
And climate refugees on their knees in the camps
Good luck Greta, I wish you well
You skipped school to shame the fools
But I already hear the death knell
Carbon footprints have stomped on my face
Not looking pretty for me or you, the human race
You've smashed me into smithereens
But some still deny it, distracted by screens
Too little, too late to change fate and go green
My head's on the block, I'm awaiting the guillotine
You keep force-feeding me poison
I can't take any more
So I'll cough and spit till my ribs split
And we will breathe no more
And never paid me back arrears
Now I've unleashed your greatest fears
Our forests burn, a tinder box
Sea levels rise to drown the docks
I'll have more spasms, seismic shocks
You're costing the earth and you'll find that quite costly
There'll be a dearth in new earths when you realize you've lost me
You keep force-feeding me poison
I can't take any more
So I'll cough and spit till my ribs split
And we will breathe no more
Why did you inflict this on me?
I'm all you've got and I was free
You can't survive on Mercury
You're parasitic like a worm
Took took took at every turn
You've breached the point of no return
Disaster wrought faster than I've ever blinked
I'm counting down 'til you join the extinct
You keep force-feeding me poison
I can't take any more
So I'll cough and spit till my ribs split
And we will breathe no more
Short term gain breeds long term pain
With rising record temperatures and bi-polar rain
Colossal fools craving fossil fuels
Keep drilling me - it's killing me - I wish they'd just down tools
Instead it's war for oil, bloodied sand and bloodied soil
The rich get richer as the rest of you toil
There's plagues of locusts and rising damp
And climate refugees on their knees in the camps
Good luck Greta, I wish you well
You skipped school to shame the fools
But I already hear the death knell
Carbon footprints have stomped on my face
Not looking pretty for me or you, the human race
You've smashed me into smithereens
But some still deny it, distracted by screens
Too little, too late to change fate and go green
My head's on the block, I'm awaiting the guillotine
You keep force-feeding me poison
I can't take any more
So I'll cough and spit till my ribs split
And we will breathe no more
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Writer(s): Maurice Morose
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