Lyricalocity 1

Have we passed the point of no return with our environment? Have we let the party go on too long without accountability? What's it going to take to make the masses understand we are likely on the path to extinction? Besides the obvious, what can an individual do? Until we figure out a way to make the "right" people some money, not much will change. Maybe we need to take a generation of children and teach them how to live, not only for today but tomorrow also.

Remember that strange, uneasy feeling you had during the 9/11 terror attacks? You knew something big was happening put it took some time to fully absorb the events unfolding. I'm afraid we may need an environmental disaster that has an immediate impact on the Average-Joe, like 9/11. Something big, that shakes the idea that our world will somehow recover from our colonization.

I used to have the idea that the earth is resilient enough to self repair itself no matter what we, as humans, throw at it. I no longer think this is the case. The earth is resilient, however, we humans have not been here long enough for the environment to adapt to our poisons. Anyway, here's a lyric that stills hit home. Let us not go gently - To the endless winter night

Red Tide
Nature has some new plague
To run in our streets
History some new wrinkle
We are doomed to repeat
Fugitives at the bedroom door
Lovers pause to find an open store
Rain is burning on the forest floor
And the red tide kisses the shore

THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM
THIS IS NOT A TEST

Stay out of the sun
It only burns my skin
Sky full of poison
And the atmosphere's too thin
Bless the sun, the rain no more
River running like an open sore
Black wind falling to the ocean floor
And the red tide washes ashore

THIS IS NOT A FALSE ALARM
THIS IS NOT A TEST

Nowhere we can fly away
Nowhere we can rest
The party is disrupted by
An uninvited guest

Deadline approaches
For the weary land
It used to be something
But we let it run down in our hands
Too late for debate, too bad to ignore
Quiet rebellion leads to open war
Bring a sea-change to the factory floor
As the red tide covers the shore

Now is the time to turn the tide
Now's the time to fight
Let us not go gently
To the endless winter night
Now's the time to make the time
While hope is still in sight
Let us not go gently
To the endless winter night

Neil Peart, 1989 (Artist: Rush - Album: Presto)