Mother Earth Needs Our Love

Liner Notes:

SuperSkirmish D - SS082721D

DATE/TIME: Friday, August 28, 2021 - 6am CDT (4am PDT, 7am EDT, noon BST, 1pm CEST, 9PM AEST etc...)

THEME/PROMPT: Write a love song to a planet, real or imagined

TAGS: superskirmish, songskirmish, ss082821J, feast, Planet, Planet Love song

I'm been trying to avoid political songs, but I don't think it's actually political that our world is facing increasingly horrendous natural disasters of our own making. We need this Planet, but shedoesnt need us. Important to remember that.

Still a work in progress. Thanks for the prompt!

Lyrics:

VERSE 1
If to everything
There is a season
Then I need some help
To find the reason
Why we plunder our own soil
Pray to gods of blood and oil
While the seas engine to boil

CHORUS
If we all worked hand in hand
To live in balance with the land
Like ancestors long ago
Know our place in nature's flow
From the waters deep to the skies above
Mother Earth needs our love

VERSE 2
A plastic mass
Floats in the ocean
A monument to our
Disposable devotion
We pay no mind to damage done
Our children's problem
Pass it on
Until the rivers no longer run

CHORUS
If we all worked hand in hand
To live in balance with the land
Like ancestors long ago
Know our place in nature's flow
From the waters deep to the skies above
Mother Earth needs our love

BRIDGE
Wildfires rage and rivers flood
Hurricanes, torrents of mud
Are the planet's desperate scream
To come together as a team
If we take less we'll all get more
Time's running out to even the score
But she doesn't need us to carry on
She'll keep turning when we're gone

CHORUS
If we all worked hand in hand
To live in balance with the land
Like ancestors long ago
Know our place in nature's flow
From the waters deep to the skies above
Mother Earth needs our love

Comments

Beautiful. I especially like this line:
"A plastic mass
Floats in the ocean"

Ooo starts off very Byrdsy, i wanted to sing Turn, turn turn! Which is very apt, because its pretty clear in time its change or perish. We are generally too arrogant to realise, this planet has already seen off a few dominant species! Well said.

Wow, powerful and timely! Really vivid details that paint a picture of the destruction of our planet. I hope this will get music as it delivers and important message!

Yeah there's a lot going against our big blue ball of a home; you capture the mass of it nicely in lyrical form with a chorus that really makes sense. Seems so simple, doesn't it?