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The Great Outdoors
04:12
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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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change without us
04:17
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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
06:14
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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
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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
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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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Love With Extinction
04:16
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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
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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
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Vastness
02:05
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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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