Anything But Green

Duration

4:42

Genres

Indie Rock

Description

Lyrics

The sun shines on an exhausted land Squeezed dry by our ruthless hands It's done its best to meet our demands Still, we expand And if we never sound alarms at our routine Then soon the world around will be anything but green Our progress swells, leaving heaps of debris And it's easy to think that's just the way it'll be But soon we'll miss the forest and the trees If we keep this attitude of doing what we please While the human plague spreads across the land And every living thing's either killed or canned Our lack of restraint is hard to understand And I don't, and I won't stand by while we Pave all around, mow the forests down Build with slabs of chrome, plastic and styrofoam Line the walls in lead and fifty TV screens Paint it blue and red, and anything but green There's a nebulous power that we'd like to blame Corporate monsters with no sense of shame But just by living through a typical day We'll find we're part of the problem more than we would say Well every form of life has their own ladder to climb And it leads to domination of the weaker design But you'd think at some point we'd know to draw the line We don't, and I won't back down while we Pave all around, mow the forests down Build with slabs of chrome, plastic and styrofoam Line the walls in lead, a hundred TV screens Paint it blue and red, and anything but green (And soon the world around will be anything but green) And we'll pave all around, mow the forests down Build with slabs of chrome, plastic and styrofoam If anything's not dead we'll drown it in caffeine Paint in blue and red, and anything but green