LYRICS
The fresh water level is dropping
The salt water level is rising
Shouldn’t be eye-popping
… no, ain’t surprising
Backlash of brackish backwaters
The water table is dropping
See the sea level rising
Shouldn’t be heart-stopping
… no, ain’t surprising
Backlash of brackish backwaters
Our wells are running drier
While the tides are rising higher
Would’ve thought it our desire
To put out this man-made fire
The song was inspired by a lot of misleading information trending in social-media about Nestle and the California drought. The facts of the matter are — most of the water in California is used for agriculture. Nearly 50 billion cubic metres (13 trillion gallons) of water is used in California each year. Nestle bottled water plants only use 705 million gallons a year. Almond growers use about as much water each year as the entire city of Los Angeles. What percentage of California’s water is used by agriculture? 80 %.
The real cause of the problem is Human Induced Climate Change. As droughts increase in frequency and intensity, the sea level is rising. So not only are the droughts a problem, but salt water intrusion is also a problem. As these problems worsen, the solution is not to blame bottled water companies. Nor is the solution to build desalination plants. (Not only do desalination plants contribute to global warming, they also are devastating to the ocean.)
The solution is for humans to take responsibility for the climate change and take action.
Daniel — Vocals, Guitar, miniNOVA
Written and recorded in Lake Wynonah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania,
LYRICS
Hard to believe
The air we breath
Where to begin
It’s doing us in
In broad daylight
Like a thief (in the night)
Not breathing in
Is the only relief
Disbelief
There’s no relief
Non-admission
To our emissions
Middle-finger salute
As we pollute
Procrastination
Due to indecision
Conscious mute
The point is moot
Disbelief
There’s no relief
Redirection
Of our emotion
Elixir fixer
A love potion
Time to wake up
And smell the coffin-ly
If there time
It’s just barely
Disbelief
There’s no relief
LYRICS
The ocean has begun to come in
It’s comin’ in
The ocean
Did begin
Comin’ in
And again
It’s comin’ in
Can you save me from the wave
’cause the ocean is comin’ in
It did begin
It’s comin’ in
It did begin
The ocean
In
When you look out your front door
Do you see the same scene anymore
Not the same as before?
The ocean is movin’
It’s comin’ in
The ocean
Is comin’ in
Go ahead step outside you may find there’s no place to hide
You can’t rewind
I think you’ll find you can’t rewind
Can’t take away your sin
Now the ocean will begin
It’s comin’ in
You can’t erase your sin
Can’t erase your past sin
Can’t just wash it away
Haha… not to save the day
And tragically it’s happenin’ to me
I can see when I look out my front door
The scene is not the same any more
I’d be lying if I said the trees weren’t dying
And if the ocean wasn’t knockin’
It’s comin’ in
LYRICS
Adrift in your drought
Adrift in your sea (see) of doubt
Afloat in a boat
Can you see in the sea
There’s nothing for you to drink
So what do you think
You will do?
Saltwater all about
But you’re in your drought
’cause you can’t think of what to drink
That won’t put you at risk
Like the cops will frisk
Thinking they’re at risk
There’s nothing to be found
There’s nothing around
Just sea as far as the eye (I) can see
Adrift in a drought
No doubt
Adrift in your drought
Your sea of doubt
Adrift in your doubt
See of drought
Maybe a brisk yanking about
Is what you need
Maybe you’ll concede
That you’re up $hit crick
Without a paddle
It’s no cosmic riddle
No time to diddle
No time to daddle
It’s time to paddle
Adrift in a drought
Beyond a doubt
Adrift in a drought
Beyond a doubt
Adrift in a drought
There’s no doubt
Self-doubt
Adrift in a drought
Self-doubt
LYRICS
They say it’s not the fall that hurts
It’s really the sudden stop at the end
Time may heal all broken hearts
But a broken soul is hard to mend
So, I’m taking it all in just as long as I can
No time to wait and not too late to start
A strange trip — the free fall of man
Before the sudden stop of our heart
They say it’s in us all — the love
And the love we get is equal to the love we send
So, I’m sending in the message from above
Let’s get together before the stop at The End
LYRICS
Have you humans no self worth?
Living on a giant pile of filth
Just selfishness and greediness
Leads inevitably to worthlessness
Does the Pope poop in the woods
A bear Catholic… believing God is good
Can you see the trees through the forest
If one falls can it be heard by the rest
Have you humans all gone mad
Not even the lightest bit sad
Am I standing here all alone
Thinking it’s a shame to trash our own home?
LYRICS
The clouds are looking quite threatening
Obviously a storm approaching
Wouldn’t you have to say
The signs are as plain as day
Chorus
Dorthy why aren’t you in the fallout shelter
You ain’t in Kansas… more like Helter Skelter
In a land where you land at the bottom of the slide
Taking man’s best friend along for the ride
Toto, too? Total, too
The circulation of the wind
The severity of the blowin’
Storm tracker has it pinned
Storm warning’s been growin’
Wouldn’t ya have to say it’s as plain as day
Oz, Moses
Chorus
The clouds are looking quite threatening
Obvious a storm is brewing
A song inspired by global warming and extreme weather events.
We are not saying that the Earth’s temperature is just going to rise. In general, as energy is added to a system, the fluctuations in the system increase. So, we expect more storms, more droughts, more wildfires, more floods, more fluctuations of all kinds. What we are saying is that weather conditions will become more volatile due to the impact of humans. (Extreme Weather Events)
LYRICS
Are we just scratching the surface
Or, are we already in too deep?
If we could only let the knowledge seep
Into our heart
Into our mind
Into our soul
Maybe we could cut down on the human toll
I don’t want to be the troll of your body
But it’s easy see
But if that’s what you’re calling me
Are we just scratching the surface
Are we in too deep
I believe the temperature is rising
It’s really not surprising
Not the slightest bit
Now it won’t quit
Need more proof
It’s going through the roof
The only problem… our race can’t adapt to living in space
’cause we trashed this place
A song inspired by human induced climate change. Since most of the energy is going into the ocean, many people are fooled by the Earth’s surface temperature.
A 1-track live and extemporaneous stereo recording.
Daniel — Vocals, Electric Guitar, Keyboards, Synthesizers, Controller and Computer
A verse inspired by the wildfires in Chile burning in the forests of 1,000 old puzzle monkey trees. (At least the government of Chile recognizes it as the effects of human induced climate change.) Another verse is inspired by the ISIS destruction of ancient artifacts in Syria using sledgehammers and bulldozers. I guess you could say the song is about human induced destruction of everything.
Araucaria araucana — commonly called the monkey puzzle tree
The origin of the popular English language name ‘monkey puzzle’ derives from its early cultivation in Britain in about 1850, when the species was still very rare in gardens and not widely known. Sir William Molesworth, the proud owner of a young specimen at Pencarrow garden near Bodmin in Cornwall was showing it to a group of friends, one of them – the noted barrister and Benthamist Charles Austin remarked, “It would puzzle a monkey to climb that”. [Because it takes a 1,000 years for them to grow, young specimens are tiny.] As the species had no existing popular name, first ‘monkey puzzler’, then ‘monkey puzzle’ stuck. — Wikipedia
LYRICS
Why did the old lady swallow a spider
That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
Can you conclude why spray sulfur at a high altitude
I don’t know why we swallowed the fly
Perhaps we’ll die
Manage a moment to ponder solar radiation management
I fear what we geo-engineer
May endanger all we hold dear
Better ask why we’re foggin’ up the sky
Perhaps we’ll die
Why did the old lady swallow the horse
Why did mankind maintain this course
Looks like we beat a dead horse to death
Wake up world we can’t take it with
No matter how you dread… in The End… the old lady’s dead
A song about Man coming up with crazy schemes in an attempt to mitigate global warming.
Schemes to tackle climate change could prove disastrous for billions of people, but might be required for the good of the planet, scientists say.
That is the conclusion of a new set of studies into what’s become known as geo-engineering.
This is the so far unproven science of intervening in the climate to bring down temperatures.
These projects work by, for example, shading the Earth from the Sun or soaking up carbon dioxide.
Ideas include aircraft spraying out sulphur particles at high altitude to mimic the cooling effect of volcanoes or using artificial “trees” to absorb CO2.
Long regarded as the most bizarre of all solutions for global warming, ideas for geo-engineering have come in for more scrutiny in recent years as international efforts to limit carbon emissions have failed. — BBC
LYRICS
Would you consider me a loon
If I insist we’re living on the moon
Can’t I see that’s lunacy?
Yet we won’t believe in reality
The Earth’s getting hot, hot, hot
Before you know it, we’ll be not
It’s not surprising
The temperatures rising
Is all logic forgot?
What kind-of ticket have we bought
Time we take some giant steps
To our balance there are checks
Yup, giant steps are what we take
If we could only awake
Yup, giant steps are what we take
Leaps and bounds from the fake
142 Beats Per Minute / Reggae (with some inspiration from the Police song “Walking On The Moon”)
The song is about the human race not taking responsibility for global warning and other “real life” man-made atrocities… while getting all wrapped up in make-believe and conspiracies.
Written and recorded West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
