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Canadians - did you know that our CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) emissions are UP 26% compared to 1990 levels? We berated the U.S. for not signing the Kyoto protocol, but their emissions went up by 16% - much less than ours. When we signed Kyoto we promised to get our emissions DOWN to 6% BELOW 1990 levels by 2012 - but now Harper says that's impossible... as he cuts funding for environmental programs aimed at reducing emissions. How can we let our government get away with this?!? We need to make BIG changes now!!! Lobby your government to stop global warming! Write letters, call them, email them, participate in Earth hour on March 29th... tell them that we Canadians will not sit idly by while our government turns its back on Earth and all its creatures, including the human race. Other countries are doing their part... why can't Canada?!? This is realllllly and truly scary. It's why I wrote this song.
LYRICS:
Verse
I think we need to come
to the conclusion
that we're living in one big illusion
The glue holding us together
is starting to loosen
My vision's going green
from all the pollution
chorus:
It's people like us who need to listen up
The world is slowly breaking down
and giving up
We've had our many chances
but we've messed them up
We're becoming our own enemy,
and now's our last chance to stop
Verse
I watch the world as it slowly breaks down
You plug your ears
Watch the human race drown
The ball's already rolling,
gotta try and slow it down
Look at what is going on
now... Now... NOW!!!
chorus:
It's people like us who need to listen up
The world is slowly breaking down
and giving up
We've had so many chances
but we've messed them up
We're becoming our own enemy
and now's our last chance to stop
Break -- (slow)
I can't take this.
Need to fix this.
I want you to care more.
What's the world's plan B,
let alone a plan C?
I want you to care more.
Needing a solution
to all this pollution.
I want you to care more.
Open up your eyes to this.
Pretty soon we won't exist.
I want you to care more.
chorus:
It's people like us who need to listen up
The world is slowly breaking down
and giving up
We've had our many chances,
but we've messed them up
We're becoming our own enemy
and now's our last chance to stop
repeat... etc
You may recognize this song as a total re-working of one of our older songs, "My New Enemy", written by my cousin, Luc Sylvestre. Luc let me make changes, add verses, re-write the lyrics, etc.
We've got enough people for a "real" band now too. We made two new friends, Micaela (age 12) & Jordan Comeau (age 16) and then discovered that they're reallly good musicians -- it was like it was *meant* to happen, ya know?! They started playing with us in December... and, unfortunately, the night that this video was recorded, we were doing two songs at the "Night Kitchen" concert in Wolfville, NS in January, and we forgot to tell Andy, the sound man, that they would be playing with us so he wasn't set up for Micaela to play bass.
This was recorded on a memory stick from far back, so the lighting and colouring is pretty bad!
Now go turn off lights that don't need to be on, turn down the heat (put a sweater on!), and write a letter to Stephen Harper. If you want to know more about the whole issue, check it out on Wiki -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol
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