Here We Sit Songtext
von Noel O'Reilly

It′s been 50 years since they told us about
Increasing temperatures, flooding and drought
Not everyone listened and caused us to doubt
The powers in charge did nothing about

The prediction that SRI told us would happen
Like melting of ice caps and sea levels rising
The burning of fossil fuels, human consumption
The Kyoto Protocol argued against
The science replaced with wilful ignorance

Business dictated it's too much to spend
Reducing their profit was more their concern
How much has it cost us, but still, we don′t learn
Resistance is useless unless we tend

To the cry from our planet, Mad weather events
Mother Nature is at her wits end
Political papers are easy to write
But these are no good unless all wills unite
Tipping points already clearly in sight


Our factories belch out their spurious poison
Fills the atmosphere to the horizon
Average temperatures constantly rising
Wildfires and floods are now not surprising

Melting glaciers, Bleached coral reef
Drilling the seabed, Factory ships
Plastic pollution that's eaten by fish
Human consumption is killing our seas
Sometimes I think that we are the disease

And still we continue to chop down the trees
Burn fossil fuels and empty the seas
So you pay your invoice for your energy
While the wind and the sun and the rivers run free

And still there are those who sit on the fence
Argue the science, Ignore evidence
Filling their pockets with dollars and cents
Today it's the poor who bears natures offence
Soon all your money will be no defence


So here we sit with the sun on our face
Leaving our rubbish all over the place
And we call ourselves the superior race
The waste we create is a downright disgrace
From the bottom of the sea to the darkness of space
Let′s find another planet, just in case