Our big question regarding what we are doing to the world we inherited, and our legacy to those whose times are to come.

LYRICS:

A brightly shining tropic sea, gleaming wide and blue,
Kaleidoscopic artistry, live in every hue.
Eyes rise in disbelief, in the glorious realm of coral reef,
Flashy schools of neon fish fool away the time.
Further 'long, picture’s wrong, 
Coral bleached, fish are gone,
Water grown way too warm, with the planet's changing clime.

(Chorus)
What will be our legacy, quickly dawning down the bend?
A vision found and brought to be?
Or a gift we pawned about to end?
Where prisons, fakes and fools unfold an earth ablaze for oil and gold?
Blinding lies and dying tides right before our eyes!
What will be our reply?

A mighty flow of ice and snow tumbles down to sea,
A monument of cold and white and bracing majesty.
A glacier reaching past the shore, greets the ocean, with a roar,
Leaves a trail of ice caps, the restless waves to ply.
But swiftly now they’re taken down,
Ancient glaciers turned around,
The air grown way too warm, with our planet's changing clime. 

(Chorus)
What will be our legacy, quickly dawning down the bend?
A vision found and brought to be?
Or a gift we pawned about to end?
Where tyrants reign and dark clouds roll an earth enchained for oil and gold
Ice sheets slide and oceans rise, right before our eyes!
What will be our reply?

‘Neath northern lights and midnight sun an Inuit family’s home
On wild and windswept tundra where caribou herds still roam.
They span timeless arctic lands, pry some food from nature’s hands,
Share in what the earth provides each soul passing by.
But troubled times are setting in,
Ice and game getting thin,
The land grown way too warm, with our planet’s changing clime.

(Chorus)
What will be our legacy, quickly dawning down the bend?
A vision found and brought to be?
Or a gift we pawned about to end?
Will sirens wail, and storm winds blow, an earth betrayed for oil and gold?
Dice roll live through northern skies, right before our eyes!
What will be our reply?

© Michael Bressler

Notes From Planet Earth

Legacy

PARTISAN SONGS OF THE BRAVE NEW MILLENNIUM. Songs for people  opposed to the con artists who seek to maximize their power and wealth through unprincipled manipulation and exploitation of people and planet.

Legacy

Mike Bressler - Notes From Planet Earth