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Standing here on a highway

Turned into a lake

Born on this planet

That I didn’t make

The ice caps are melting

You can measure the rise

Of the poisoned oceans

Hear all the lies

Of the political pundits

And corporate crooks

Their accountants and scientists

Cooking the books

With hardly an inkling

Of what it’s about

Wedded to profit

In flood and in drought

I’m talking to you

From here at the end of the world

Standing here on the bayou

Amidst mountains of soil

Washed off from the farmland

And covered in oil

One ton every acre

Lost every year

And along with the pesticides

It ends up right here

Millions of miles

Of chemical wheat

Challenging all

To try to compete

And lay waste to your country

Like we’ve done to ours

Let them eat coffee

Sugar, coca and flowers

I’m talking to you

From here at the end of the world

And here in the city

Shrouded in smoke

Ten million people

This morning awoke

To a future of cancer

Industrial disease

So let’s build some more suburbs

And buy SUV’s

Let’s cut down the mountains

And burn all the coal

And put all the money

In a humungous bowl

They’ll call it progress

And they’ll blame it on you

To end life as we know it

To enrich the few

I’m talking to you

From here at the end of the world

Yes I speak to you now

From an occupied place

You might call it your home

Or a terrorist base

They’ll send your sons and your daughters

To make sure that it’s theirs

While they sit in their mansions

On their plush leather chairs

And everyone’s waiting

For us to decide

From dust we were born

And in dust we reside

Will we realize the commons

Is to shepherd and share

Here in this war zone

Called land, water and air

Yes I’m talking to you

From here at the end of the world

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