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I won’t say so much about the composition on this one, other than that I’m quite pleased with the juxtaposition of 4/4 and 5/4 time signatures. Complex but deceptively simple. And I think the dynamics came out nicely. But let’s talk about the meaning of the song.
The genesis of this song was simple enough. Having written so many songs about the beauty and magic of the natural world, it seemed deeply wrong to cleave to the misty-eyed idealization of nature and ignore the ugly reality of technocratic capitalism’s clutch upon the world.
I didn’t want to turn away and pretend that we do not stand on the precipice of the sixth planetary mass extinction – and the first to be caused by the actions of a single species, our own. I aspire to write beautiful songs, but that doesn’t mean the subject matter has to be beautiful.
Furthermore, I deeply doubt that we have any way out that is not fundamentally disastrous. The powers that be have prevaricated for too many decades. Climate change, deforestation, ocean plastic and acidification, species destruction, fracking, the list goes on. So we have to shed not only our idealization, our Bambification, of nature, but also our illusion that there is any substantive hope of salvation.
It particularly rankles that most of the damage is a byproduct of efforts to assert inequality, injustice, and to ensconce greed as the essence of the human condition – greed and oppression. Bob Dylan asks “is your money that good?” in his vitriolic ballad “Masters of War,” and we could ask the same of the white male capitalist gate keepers who would destroy the world for their own empty aggrandizement.
And yet. To give up. To give in. To become apathetic, and dive into distraction and forgetfulness. To bury the head in the sand. To indulge in cynicism. To smear ourselves with contempt, doubt, and compromise. This is not the way. It presupposes that the meaning of our actions is rooted in the possibility of victory. Which is not the case.
The meaning of our actions is rooted in the principles that inspire them, not the outcome.
So it doesn’t matter if we can save our world from ourselves and our sick social injustice. What matters is that we strive, in whatever large and small ways we can, to fight that fight. To stand. To call out the corruption and the waste and the callousness when we see it. There’s no escape from the mess we’re in – no matter what we want to tell ourselves. But it doesn’t have to own us. We can refuse to go along.
What that means will be different for each person. We each have some part to play. We have to Begin, here at the end of all things.
lyrics
Forests burning
To ash, to meaningless end.
Oceans choking
On oil, acid, plastic.
Earth raped and fractured,
Poisoned and parched.
Sky soaked in carbon
Weather turned violent.
Look what we've done
Look what we allow in our name
Look what we've done
What have we become?
Extinction run rampant
Humans life's enemy.
Wildness broken
Enslaved to technology.
Fueled by greed and injustice,
Contempt.
The needs of the many
Bent to the greed of the few.
The machine owns us all
Despite what we might will
The machine corrupts us all
How can we break this standstill?
Heed the call to
Action that stems from within.
Refuse to sit by, despairing,
As the world ends.
Look for the hope and
The beauty that dwells in all things.
Courage is trusting that
Even small deeds have meaning.
Strive with all we have
Even if we cannot win
Better to try and to fail
Than never to begin
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