[Silence]
[Instrumental, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Drums, Piano, Organ, Synth]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Loose Acoustic Guitar, Bouncy Bass, Brushes, Wurlitzer Piano, Warm Analog Synth]
[Spoken Vocal]
Free sample…
Free lunch…
Free ride…
(Until there’s no place to run…)
… no place to hide
[Verse 1]
Forests in the mountains
See oceans (sea to sea)
Sunlight in the morning
(So the days begin)
[Pre-Chorus]
Free!
(Free!)
Sample!
(Sample!)
Take!
(Take!)
Some more!
[Refrain]
Has Earth’s free sample
(Been ample?)
Has her free lunch
(Made much)
Well…
(Do tell, do tell)
… ohhh well….
[Chorus]
Free sample!
(Take a taste)
Free lunch!
(Goes to waste)
The bill comes later
(Later!)
When the cupboard’s bare
(Eating’s rare)
Free sample!
(What a deal)
Free lunch!
(How does it feel?)
[Verse 2]
We burned the ancient sunlight
We mined the buried past
We pulled from deep reserves
And thought that would last
Mother keeps the ledger
Though nature doesn’t send
A bill upon the table
She settles in the end
[Instrumental]
[Acoustic Guitar Solo: Fingerpicked Folk-Blues, Joined by Slide Electric Guitar, Upright Bass and Soft Organ]
[Bridge]
Free lunch?
(No… more than a hunch)
Free ride?
(Won’t slide)
[Rap Vocal Break]
Take it
(Free!)
Make it
(Free!)
Use it
(Free!)
Waste it
(Free!)
But the soil gets soiled
And the rivers run low
The greens gets thinner
As the extinctions grow
The atmosphere (oh my dear)
A record of the cost
Someone’s getting lost
No one sent an invoice
No one rang the bell
But the climate keeps
The ledger well
(All the way to hell!)
Yell!
(All the way to hell!)
[Breakdown]
[Music Drops to Acoustic Guitar, Bass Harmonics and Soft Piano]
Has Earth’s free sample…
Been ample?
Has her free lunch…
Made much?
[Whispered]
Well…
Do tell…
Do tell…
Ohhh well…
[Final Refrain]
Has Earth’s free sample
(Been ample?)
Has her free lunch
(Made much)
Well…
(Do tell, do tell)
… ohhh well….
[Final Chorus]
Free sample!
(Free sample!)
Take a taste
But don’t let her waste
Free lunch!
(Free lunch!)
What did we do?
Maybe now
It’s time to give
Something back.
(Instead of lack, lack, lack!)
Let’s hear you yell:
(All the way to hell!)
Then, again…
(You can choose heaven)
[Outro]
[Instrumental Outro: Acoustic Guitar, Warm Bass, Wurlitzer, Gentle Drums and Analog Synth; Gradual Fade]
Let’s hear you yell:
(All the way to hell!)
Then, again…
(You can choose heaven)
[Spoken, fading]
Birth (heaven on Earth)
Livin’ in heaven
(Birth) Heaven on Earth
From the album “Demand Destruction“