LYRICS
Are you feeling it?
Can you taste it in the air
You reeling from it?
Climate change has come to bear
Aware
I’m choking
On the smoking
When you can see, smell, taste, touch
The air
Do you care to share your despair?
Can it be, well, haste, waste, such
To the touch
Is “weigh too much”
… way too much?
Climate change is in the air
You can feel
(Can you feel it a bit?)
Primate rearrange
Beware
The real deal
Literally
Litter you can see
Climate change is in the air
You can feel the real deal
[Dog Barking]
Is his bark worse than his bite?
Not tonight!
(Climate change’s bite is worse than the bark)
Climate change is in the air
You can feel the real deal
This song is about the Canadian wildfires of 2023. Up to this point in time it had been easy for people not to really notice climate change. A gradual rise in temperature of 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit. I mean… what’s the big deal, right? Well, the extreme wildfires are fueled by climate change and people can literally see it. The wildfires create huge CO2 emissions and remove millions of acres of CO2 absorbing old-growth forests creating a worsening feedback loop. Air pollution is: a leading cause of death worldwide, the leading cause of climate change, and the greatest threat to humankind. The good news — the wildfires are very visible. The wildfires are in your face. People can see, smell, taste, and touch the climate change in their face. Perhaps some of the unwoke will wake?
Smoke from wildfires in Canada brought record-breaking air pollution to the United States this spring, creating dangerous air quality from Bismarck, N.D., to Denver and Detroit to New York City and Washington. According to a Washington Post analysis of smoke data through June 7 (2023) from Stanford University, 197 air quality monitoring stations have reported all-time high pollution from wildfires.
This line is about everyone on my facebook feed waking up:
Do you care to share your despair?
Chords: Am D7 / Em / Em C A7 D7 / D7 A7; Part II @ 111 BPM
Instrumentation: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards (Korg PS60, Casio WK-500, Korg N364, MiniNova, MicroKorg)
Nemo: Dog Barking (Is the bark worse than the bite? Not tonight!)
