2 Spirits

Years ago in the mountains, there was a battle
Between who would own the light and who would own the shadow
Classic storytelling, like good versus evil
The winner would control the valley full of people

Two spirits, neither inherently flawed
On the level gods, people to talk, yes
Comparing the odds, bets, left and right
And so people started gambling on the spirits' fight
Putting everything they had up, just to get their bag up
Couple got lucky and a couple did their math, cut
To generations later, those that had it have it greater
Used to worry 'bout their crops
Now they worry 'bout their paper

Get it by any means, nothing was safe
Not the trees all around them, it was money to make
Not the rocks in the mountains housing the great
Spirits still in their dance, whose colors started to fade
Elders gave warnings, the consequences grave
They had wisdom, but wisdom didn't get them paid
So nobody listened, and the status quo stayed
But the foundation of the world was bound to give way
Then one day, the valley folk awoke to awful news
The riverbed had gone dry, what were they to do
Now the small fries were really big dudes
The elders knew the history
And what did they choose? Feed the richest man to the spirits
Money is no good now we want all of y'all to hear it
We have no water
So what matters more? Money or our sons and daughters
Because we've started war
Every time we took from nature, it kept a tally
Underneath this asphalt used to be a green valley
The spirits are nature in a physical form
And our richest man is our greed, spirits got something for him
Nature isn't 'bout revenge or retaliation
It's about letting the pendulum swing back a couple generations
Before the start of the problems were facing
For us it's devastation, for them it's reclamation
For us it's a malicious attack
For them it's the way things go when shit gets outta whack
We are not better than
We are part of
We forget it even though we are the smart ones

The crowd stood in silence, shocked at the demand
But would they follow through? To save their own land?
The richest man stepped forward and ordered
People to jail their elders
Finally people took a stand
It didn't matter how much he had earned
Once he was given to the spirits, the legend says that he was burned
When the crowd got back to the valley
The water in the river had returned