[Intro] [Dry, close; piano & upright bass only] They are buying every rumour. They have priced the higher ground. By the time they name the danger, not a place will still be found. [Dry, close; piano & upright bass only] Do your part. Mind the water. Sort your glass. The doors are closing. [Verse 1] Everybody saw the gauges. Every warning crossed the screen. Then they fired the ones who measured what the rising numbers mean. “Do your part. Conserve the water. Every household must atone.” While their companies poison aquifers they failed to buy and own. [Pre-Chorus] They signed the warnings, dodged the binding, walked away when limits came. Then they made the smoke a border quarrel, set the neighbours trading blame. [Chorus] Paradise has got a guest list you and I will never see. Every name upon it purchases a promise of immunity. They can bar us from the shelter, turn the desperate away. But the danger they kept hidden will not wait outside the gate. [Verse 2] Forty years of market doctrine priced prevention as expense. Now the air arrives as evidence— they point us toward the fence. Then they turn the workers’ anger on the families at the gate— people living through the future we still think we can escape. [Verse 3] Backed the strongmen, armed the conflict, blocked their medicine in port. Now they call the refugees criminals when the climate drives them north. Call the drowning an invasion. Call the hunger foreign crime. Keep the frightened blaming frightened while the owners purchase time. [Chorus] Paradise has got a guest list you and I will never see. Every name upon it purchases a promise of immunity. They can bar us from the shelter, turn the desperate away. But the danger they kept hidden will not wait outside the gate. [Verse 4] Every name upon the guest list comes endorsed in fear and gold: which democracy they weakened, which public asset they sold. No one needs to share a doctrine when the clearance sale begins. Every democracy diminished is an authoritarian win. [Bridge] [Band strips to bass, piano and low accordion] We built seawalls, wired the kitchens, cleaned the rooms and poured the quay. They took water, land and power, then reserved the boats at sea. There was room for every fortune. There was never room for us. [Final Chorus] [Full band returns without getting louder] Paradise has got a guest list. Every place is bought and sold. Every guest believes admission means the future can be owned. They can bar us from the shelter, turn the desperate away. But the danger they kept hidden will not wait outside the gate. [Outro] [Instruments withdraw one by one] [True silence] [Dry spoken] The guest list is genuine. The guarantee is not. & remember: Never share your passwords Pack your own GoBag & always: Keep your details current
