Our Earth
Stéphane Cairn, Chris Tapor, Emmanuel Pribys, Geneviève Morissette, Laurent Bán, Lysia, Nicolas d'Armagnac, Richard Bonnot, Roddy Assous, Sara Wigan, Stéphanie Schlesser
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A nuclear power plant exploded this morning It’s certainly a virus Conflicts over drinking water supplies are raging all across the continent A rapid rise of the sea level Organ trafficking Confirmed by the mass killing happening across the country It may have been human cloning All Forests have gone up in smoke Yesterday elephants went officially extinct On “all news” TV shows Or even radios And daily printed press No Heroes bear the stress Skyscrapers tall smoken Kyoto’s promise broken Who’re these sentries that speak At the Rio Summit’s peak With condescending stares Ponder chaos growing Bitter harvest knowing Selling snake oil wares While burning on altars Where smoke obscures the eye Under a ragged sky The ozone layer falters Do they wait for the great melt Expected all to soon Our Tower of Babel’s felt The heat of a sizzling noon The sinking atolls dread The ocean’s dark deep tomb Drowned city of the dead Its waves end in gloom Glaciers water denied And flowers on pack-ice grow Spoil all the corals below Tropical fish go hide Even swim to Venice That faces a wet menace And always in our haste Let beauty go to ruin Treasures gone to waste All nature’s gifts will end Of course we are to blame The gallows to befriend Of dealing-death a game Joys and jewel abused For nature is at war The planet all confused The palette is so bare See all the picture’s flaws Stand back and give it air And just a minute’s pause Give more wholesome breathing space Gain relief rightly owed In fallow fields a place To set down her heavy load Avian flus in ages lost Had plagues of far less cost Tribes’s hopes all nearly gone Again their lands defending Just see the Amazon Its suffering unending Distant Eden’s features Maybe artificial flowers Have immortal powers But not living creatures And my heart is all in knots When to Noah go my thoughts His Ark like great lifeboats Over the rainbow floats Géricault blew these notes A life where we never fail To lead the lambs to slaughter And harpoon the trusting whale Proud bulls killed for fodder Medusa petrified Pan’s face Leviathan’s extinction Massacre’s sickening pace Making no distinction Amongst the penguin race While Golden Eagles fly As doves embrace the sky Like Simon of Cyrene To bear her cross my belief Our crimes won’t go unseen It’s a price we all must pay Cain slew Abel vile thief We too our brothers slay Lost swallows cannot stay That have no seasons more The storks always on time Their very homes ignore To distant skies do climb New horizons they implore Far from diesel’s roars And far from all pollutions To distant islands shores No soiled or grey solutions Our barrels of crude oil Spilled all along her coasts And burn in blood-soaked soil The herds by the hundred hosts Chernobyl or Bhopal How much are Ethics worth there El Niño pays the Devil’s share Aral sees her waters fall And her lofty secrets bear Which from Heaven sees us all Modified genes reserved For cloning labor pains And still you’re not disturbed Even deadly hurricanes And cast a curse or spell On flora and fauna fell Bangladesh’s drowning breath Where many still starve to death Eritrea’s dry form No shelter from the storm The Total petrol bill At the Final stations Bid Elves to drink their fill With the blood of nations Homo sapiens must cease Such damage it’s not worth This folly to give birth Cannon fodder to increase Of genocide and hate Millions victim’s fate This land that we bleed dry Inflicting endless strife Knowledge we must apply She has but one sole life The children she must teach The virtues and Love to share A new dawn that we reach What will you and I do till We end her long nightmare Or we our Mother kill From N’Orleans flooded state To Kilimanjaro This song we dedicate Where it may further flow Aquarian Age shows An anthem for all your woes Unified at last by hope And freed from indifference Our final chance to cope Calypso’s deliverance Our Earth is an imperiled dome Blue marble our only home
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