Too Late!
John Greenwood
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When the sunlight fails to pierce the ever-deepening clouds And the oceans rise to claim each new Atlantis proud It will be too late to cry and wring our idle hands What have they done? When we gaze out over the salted fields where nothing grows The green and living land confined to memory It will be too late to halt the march of Vulcan's hoards What have we done? Too late! Too late! The birds flew south and never returned We took the light and turned it into darkness Gone in the smoke from the black we burned. And now we're told the world is dying faster than we thought Fire and flood the hefty price for the comfort that we sought But the bloated fools some chose to rule claim "everything is fine!" When they sold their souls for oil and coal, they should have bought a spine The targets set cannot be met whilst they deny the need So we won't be forced to change our course from selfishness and greed And it's much too late to set things straight so we whine for all we're worth And the meek shall inherit what's left of the earth Too late! Too late! All hope went south and sea levels rise Ignored the signs, sit back as life declines We'll be gone in the smoke of political lies I found a box out the back near the dead tree My great grandma had buried it there as a child and put some of her favourite things in it With a note saying "To whomsoever finds this in the future" There was a picture of her sitting where the lake used to be. She looked carefree and Happy My mum said I should make a time capsule just like it and we started to talk about what I Might put in it But my dad just said, "What's the point? What can we leave them that will make them Think better of us?" I didn't understand what he meant at the time but I cried myself to sleep that night and My tears made me think I would leave them water... if I could Too late! Too late! Where did our Eden go? The rich flew up and never came down They took our toil and fashioned our extinction We're gone in the smoke of our cities and towns
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Written by: JOHN GREENWOOD
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