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What did you do to the great outdoors and to our children's children--Why and what for? You couldn't decide about that thing called life You wanted more gas, more guns more sacrifice. Will a child from the future knock on your door? Will she say I'm a dead kid from 2044? You don't seem to want your future anymore But the future wants life not war I am the X in Extinction you fools your children's children from 2044 And I am looking for a vacation In the great outdoors Extinction takes a vacation I walk in your door Your population of bodies Is my white sand shore. This pandemic made of humans has lost its roar You're my scenic view now you're my forest floor I am the X in Extinction you fools your children's children from 2044 And I am looking for a vacation In the great outdoors
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DO YOU FEEL WHAT I’M FEELING? Pressure in the air, pressure in the air PRESSURE. And the screams from nowhere viruses CRYING OUT change without us change without us THE EARTH IS IN PAIN but there is new life in the rain. THE RAIN. The Earth is in pain But there’s NEW LIFE in the rain. The rain. The Earth, The Earth, The Earth is in Pain. PRESSURE IN THE AIR. pressure in the air. Do you feel what I”m feeling? Bright STORM fire burning drought OCEANS turning. Oh change without us, change without us storms are moving its in my eyes on my skin change oh change, change without us, its in my eyes on my skin change oh change CHANGE WITHOUT US Oceans are turning BRIGHT star fire burning drought oceans turning oh thunder oh thunder oh sunlight oh fire sunlight thunder sunlight, Furious trees are CALLING out, HEART stops mouth OPEN I Oh echoes, echoes , desire, desire, I see the sea in the sky The waves are turning waves are turning Is there new life in the PAIN? Is there new life in the pain? Is there new life in the PAIN? YES There’s new life in the rain There’s new life in the rain falling down There’s new life, there’s new life,there’s new life, there’s new life The earth the earth the earth is in PAIN. Do you feel what I’m feeling ? Pressure in the air The earth the earth the earth the earth is in pain.
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Beautiful Earth Beautiful Earth What do you have to say? Fire and storm virus and death Earth can you please translate? Beautiful Earth Beautiful Earth What do we need to hear? Sorrow and shock the ones we love Earth will you break our fear? ​Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Earth You think we are the storm Are we debris? And deadly wind? Ever since we were born Be friend to the animal Be friend to the tree Be friend to the caterpillar Be friend to the sea Be friend to the animal Be friend to the tree Be friend to the butterfly Be friend to the sea ​Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Earth You think we are the storm, Are we debris? And deadly wind? Ever since we were born      Oh beautiful Earth Oh beautiful Earth Oh beautiful Earth, What do we need to hear? Sorrow and shock, the ones we love Earth will you break our fear? Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful Earth You’re right her nearby somewhere I can feel you we just got some pavement here some concrete-gotta blow all the walls down, like a storm, get out of the car, out of the traffic jam, out of the suburban sprawl, out of the toxins in the air. We love you so much we’re gonna take that journey you and me take that time get the map got the map oh its inside us we forgot that now we remember the earth gave us the map thank you Earth yeah were gonna sing beautiful Earth you guided us and now we promise we will shout in the streets beautiful Earth do everything we gotta do we’ll risk arrest go to jail teach the children tear down the refinery with our bare hands ….change in the time of extinction…extinction demands revolution. You showed us the way and now we’re walking on that alpine meadow, walking the wetlands, across the long grass prairie, swimming across the coral reef, climbing the mountain, flooding down the river, to the valley, beautiful Earth, beautiful Earth, thank you for showing us the way, thank you, you waited for us, beautiful Earth.
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Swimming 02:11
let’s you and me go swimming in the dead zone sea de-demonize the wuhan bat the civet cat goes free let’s you and me go climbing up the blackened mountainside apologize to the bleeding sun we lost the last words let’s you and me go flying take a rocket to the innocent trees breath the smog of broken data crash in the crime of the trees let’s me and you go dying when the race to end our race look up from the mirror and into the eyes of everyone's unknown beautiful face I love the horizon leaping to its death let’s embrace what isn't there let’s go for a swim in the raging flood of mother earth’s self care
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The Storm 02:29
Now it has begun The storm has finally come. The water and the wind. Now it has begun. Is this some kind of war? The sea won't say a word The weatherman's a bore. Now it has begun. Now it has begun. The storm has finally come. My neighbors in the street. It rushes like a stream. You’re caught in it waist deep. What an energized retreat. You think you can compete. The hero’s tragedy. Now it has begun. The storm has finally come. The drowning and the dead. Now it has begun. My breath is out of reach. Death makes its final speech Did this storm come from me? Did this storm come from me? Now I know the truth, The waves break on the roof. Where is my higher ground? It’s down there with my town I'm praying round and round. Am I living to be found? A body in the sound. Running round and round Now it has begun. The storm has finally come. The sea begins to speak. Turn, she says, face me.
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Death makes the sunrise Death makes the sunrise Extinction is real extinction is here We better say I love you Before we disappear Extinction number 6 1 2 3 4 5 Do something to remember If someone does survive Our hearts are beating Now i know why On the living earth There is no goodbye Let go of the myth Extinction will surprise Now we can really love Death makes the sunrise Death makes the sunrise Death makes the sunrise
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Thrill To It 03:11
Thrill to it feel to it real to it earth to it mama earth to it worth to it here and there to it space to it place to it do it do it do it do it risk to it kiss to it been making mistaking to it stop taking to it all this faking to it do it do it do it shine to it crying to it throw a line to it sinking to it nothing left to drink to it mama to it papa to it endgame to it we flying to planet mars to it start space wars to it screw to it pump big fist to it human kind to it make big lie to it do it do it do it got my life my life my life I got my body I got my body
8.
Vastness 02:05
I wish you vastness, I wish you knownness, knowness, knowness I wish you peace peace peace. I wish you peace I wish you vastness, I wish you unknownness, knownness knownness, I wish you peace peace peace. Our future lost it’s time but you and I survive, What was that flying out beyond the sky? Meet me on higher ground, above the water’s rise, Where our peace lets out a cry.

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This music was created during the pandemic, on rooftops, in parks and on the streets of New York City. We sang them for audiences across the UK on our way to the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow with the StopShopping Choir London and recorded them in the depth of winter in upstate NY. We rely on word of mouth, please share! contact: savitri@revbilly

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released August 10, 2022

Songs by William Talen, Sunder Ganglani, Savitri D
Arrangements by Ali Dineen with Gregory Corbino
Contributions by Francisca Benitez, Kai Pelton, Chris Garrard, Shilpa Narayan
The Storm and Thrill To It music by Nehemiah Luckett, Nathan Stevens, Savitri D, William Talen

Lead Vocals Francisca Benitez, Sunder Ganglani, Ali Dineen, Ariella Mandel, John Carlin, Karl Halberg, Gregory Corbino, Shilpa Narayan, William Moses

Piano / Gregory Corbino
Organ / Ali Dineen
Guitar / Danny Blume
Bass / Nathan Stevens
Drums / Eric Johnson
(except Thrill to It Ethan Eubanks)

Produced by Savitri D & Danny Blume

THE STOP SHOPPING CHOIR IS:
Ak Jansen
Al Smith
Ali Dineen
Alice Cornell
Alice Gabb
Amadeus Harte
Amber Gray
Ariella Mandel
Ashni Sunder
Barbara Robin Lee
Carl Halberg
Charlene Ruscalleda
Chloé Coradetti
Chris Garrard
Colista Turner
Danny Valdes
David Yap
Dawn Stewart-Lookkin
Debbie Ciraolo
Donald Gallagher
Dustin Robles
Emily James
Eric Johnson
Francisca Benítez
Gaylen Hamilton
Gregory Corbino
Immo Klink
Jess Beck
John Carlin
John Quilty
Jude Kondik
Kai Pelton
Katy Hogan
Laura Berger
Leila Adu
Lena Talen
Max Andrucki
Mike Katell
Milla Gregor
Mink Chung
Molly Chanoff
Nathan Stevens
Pat Hornak
Rachel Naunton
Richard DeDominici
Savitri D
Shilpa Narayan
Sunder Ganglani
Sylver Pondolfino
Tewodros Tamirat
Tom Stallard
Vera Kahn
Veronica Thompson
William Talen

Mixed and Engineered by Danny Blume / Hidden Quarry Studio Woodstock, NY
Additional Recording by Ken Rich/ Grand Street Recording & Mario Viele/ Cowboy Technical
Brooklyn, NY

Master Dave McNair
Photos and design by Savitri D

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