Emergency

The revolution will be industrial

We charge like the battle of Beersheba and I lost foil

And didn't you know it's all combustible?

We got born again greens just because it's tax deductible

I'm optimistic but your toxicity is buoyant

And now you lick your finger in response but just a point

And that's the quickest way to disappoint

Maybe you missed the point, this is way bigger than a list of joints

We can spruik credentials no matter how inconsequential

We treat it like essential

I could sacrifice a non-essential, call myself environmental

Anything outside of this is accidental

Slogans or their mantra

We can't look to government and industry for answers

They only got a golden handshake and a

Plan to abandon the ship way before we deal with the cancer

This is an emergency

This is an emergency

This is an emergency

But calmly you told me you had a plan

Even Arnie in the nineties had a car that ran electric

They held back the tech, now it's gotten hectic

They can't deflect it, not like it's unexpected

Aussie kids dying at the tyrant's directive

In the dust of the cradle of civilisation

The Middle East was once well vegetated

Now check out Australia, a fragile equation

Even the Anglican church says that a

Terrorist invasion is not the real issue

If you're waiting for an end to floods and drought here's a tissue

The nats will dismiss you and pray for a solution

Shame there's no neighbour to blame for the pollution

At least there's absolution and carbon credits

It begins and ends at home if we let it

A letter to your MP, sign the petition

We're waiting on you man to make the hard decision

This is an emergency

This is an emergency

This is an emergency

But calmly you told me you had a plan

(You told me, you told me)

It was the darnedest thing, who could have known

We'd take and take till there was no more