Earth Talks

I started on this back on earth day, several months ago. It just occurred to me that the notion of the earth talking relates to the pending climate talks in Paris next week. Added a bridge for that. So far, it's a poem, not getting any musical muse going... ever since the day it started as a rhythmic chant on my daily walk around the farm. Maybe it will come to Slide and Yown some day.

Earth Talks

Pebbles on the beach
Once rocks in a field
They got something to teach
A protest to appeal
Want to be old some day
To be smooth and small
Lying in the sand they say
Not in a road or wall

Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks, these rocks, are talking to me
Rocks these rocks, don't like what they see



Trees in the forest
Surrounded by the rot
Eatin car exhaust
But not all we got
Fighting wind and rains
Choking on the smoke
From endless human trains
They never get to vote

Trees, these trees, are talking to me
Trees, these trees, are talking to me
Trees, these trees, are talking to me
Trees, these trees, don't like what they see

Clouds up in the sky
Pushed by ghostly winds
We all know why
The oil burning sin
Forming thick and black
Empty all their pain
Mount a new attack
To heat and load again

Clouds, these clouds, are talking to me
Clouds, these clouds, are talking to me
Clouds, these clouds, are talking to me
Clouds, these clouds, don't like what they see

(Bridge)
Leaders of the planet
Are in Paris next week
To reach a new agreement
Mother Earth has a speech
Act instead of worry
She’s saying stop the talk
They say what’s the hurry
To run we have to walk

A meeting of such minds
The promise and the hope
Secrets they might find
Future needs to cope
All the plans they make
Start to end the talk
The path is ours to take
To run we have to walk

Stop, this talk, just talking to me
Stop, this talk, just talking to me
Stop, this talk, just talking to me
The future, is closer, than ever you see