[Intro] [Verse 1] [alto female vocals] Miles and miles of nature's scenery Covered in solar panels as far as my eyes can see From the ocean's edges to the plains to the mountain tops Wind turbines shoot up like weeds choking Earth's garden plots [Chorus] Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They take paradise, put up green energy [Verse 2] Felling five million trees diminished Scotland's charm But they couldn't let those trees steal wind from their wind farm They cut down US forests and pelletized the trees Ship them all the way to Europe and burn them for green energy [Chorus] Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's done They take paradise, cut it down for green energy [Verse 3] Wind turbines and solar thermal kill millions of bats and birds Kill endangered tortoises and endangered raptors Hydropower destroys entire natural habitats But it makes green energy, so what could be wrong with that? [Chorus] Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They must sacrifice nature for green energy [Verse 4] Millions of tons of toxic solar waste Unending resource mining, giant toxic tailing lakes Oh, how they claim they're making our energy clean What can it mean when they say our energy is green? [Verse 5] Big oil runs ads for wind and solar power Because they're unreliable day to day and hour to hour And that locks in lots of natural gas revenue Even though gas leaks are worse for the climate than CO2 [Chorus] Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone They take paradise, put up green energy [Outro] 'Cause they all hitched a ride on the same big green taxi If only we could get them to rethink atomic energy
