Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The Concrete and the Chemicals



All I want to say in this blog are in this song:

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PICfdkuI4Y4&noredirect=1





Here are the lyrics:

The riptide greets the water's edge, he says it's good to meet again
The sun is out, it protects us, it lets the fish in my belly swim
Five thousand years ago, we danced with the comets from outer space
It was our nature them, indigenous, and now I feel out of place

For the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's in our path
(No mercy, no mercy)
Understanding of the purpose of the nature of the world

And then man came, we welcomed him with plants and food to eat
Tranquil rivers and tall pines for shade now all but obsolete
Brother dear would beautify the woods amongst us all
And now he runs and hides from the hunter
To keep his head from the hunter's wall

For the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's in our path
Understanding of the purpose of the nature of the world

The gravitational pull
Can never be wrong
But to live all as one
Has taken too long
Mother Earth
And deservedly so
Has given birth to us all
And there's nothing to glow

But greed and corruption, violence, pollution
Hate, a disease, a new constitution
We need to gather 'round a global huddle
Give praise to the ones that we lost in the struggle
And spread the love, yo, spread the love
Spread the love, spread the love, spread the love

(No mercy, no mercy)
For the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's at our path
Aaaahh (No mercy), oooooh (No mercy)
Understanding of the purpose of the nature of the world

And now the skies are covered up
From a blue to a shade of gray
A man in red many moons ago
Had a vision it would come someday
Five thousand years ago, the earth we now deny
Was the greatest canvas ever painted
Under the eastern sky

(No mercy, no mercy)
For the goods that grace us all, we destroy what's at our path
Understanding of the purpose of the nature of the world
(No mercy ,no mercy)
For the creatures and the fish, and the people of the sun

For the concrete and the chemicals, kills the nature in us all

Kills the nature in us all
Kills the nature in us all 



- Ariel Murphy


4 comments:

  1. Thank you, Ariel...What a beautiful song and video. The song says a lot about the darkness & light which we all feel, or at least... I hope most of us. It seems wisdom comes with age, but my hope is for the young to become wise sooner, for that is the only way to turn this earth around. It's easy to be vocal, harder to do the work needed.

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    1. I absolutely agree Pete. We can talk, profess and advocate all we want but the real test of our conviction comes when "the rubber meets the road." Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

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  2. Powerful lyrics, and powerful images in the video! Another one of your passions, huh? Thanks, Ariel

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    1. Yep music is one of my passions, Paul! Mahalo for your comment!

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