[Intro, Slow, Spoken, Male] In two thousand six, Al Gore gave us a clear message... We been livin with An Inconvenient Truth (truth). The meteoric rise in those Gases... Just seems unstoppable for the youth (youth, youth) [Interlude] [Verse, Slow, Female Vocals] Unseen growth in global population, Rising use and lifestyle choices... Stealing goods from every nation, Widespread destruction of Earth’s resources. [Verse, Female Vocals] What if new ways ain't found to save us, Tech... commerce... and social habits... Politics, greed and social status, Endless exploitatin of our planet. [Verse] We wanna our comfortable kingdom, Burning the forest, buying new toys... Progress ain’t growth, ain’t cyber freedom, The rich getting richer... more power to the tech boys (‘cos they is just unstoppable, unstoppable). [Interlude] [Chorus, Female Vocals] Seems like the world is blindly waiting... Waiting in the rain for miracles (miracles)... (Waiting in the rain for miracles) Need to stop exploitating, the masses hating, Start decelerating... before things get physical (hysterical). [Verse] Getting stronger with local scheming, Like cleaner power and friendly farming... Investing time in all this new dreaming Spending our cash on caring and sharing (caring, sharing). [Bridge, Rap] Most folk busy gettin on with their livin, Find work, get house, make ends meet... Struggle through epidemic and global shortage, Cost-of-living biting, poor health and risin crime (crime, crime). [Break, Saxophone] Gotta look after their families, Gotta look out for their friends, Gotta take care of their streets (their streets). [Interlude] [Bridge, Rap] Dealing with upheaval... evil politics, economic fictions, Social, medical and military clips... Coping with recession, depression, oppression and addictions. Some of us even gotta prep for the Apocalypse (Apocalypse, Apocalypse). (It's clear from our collective inaction, We is dumpin this problem on the next generation, (next generation)) [Chorus, Female Vocals] Seems like the world is just waiting... Waiting in the rain for miracles (miracles)... (Waiting in the rain for that miracle) Need to stop exploitating, the masses hating, Start decelerating... before everything gets physical (hysterical). [Outro, Spoken, Male] Hard earned hypocrisy of middle class life... (life) Enthusiastic amateurs trying to fix the strife... (strife) We all still want a piece of that pie... [Saxophone] In the end, the planet is gone... in just the blink of an eye (blink of an eye), [Whispered] Why try, ‘cos world gonna die, get by, be fly, save the sky, don’t live that lie, help share the pie (share that pie) [Interlude]
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