Behold! yet another not totally complete song! Working on various parts (the ‘chorus’ mainly). Just glad I’ve got some chords for this one.
Em C
Tailing ponds and refinery pipelines
G
as far as my eyes could see
Em
the beautiful wasteland
C
(Where) nature was shattered
G
bleeding and flayed
A
left dying for me
Em C
The cost of my existence
G
the lives that we all demand
Em
and this is the price when
C
we let them devise to
G
to pillage and rape
D
the most sacred of land
(We don’t care!)
C
communities of the watershed are
EM
left poisoned and dead
no future for them
(We’re not there!)
D
no value put on the sanctity
EM
of culture and family
mind the decree
F#m D
(of) The company delegations
A D EM
who flatly deny allegations
F#m
and all the affects their
D
sickness can have
A D EM
on the Northern Alberta first nations
F#m D
The cancer, the lies, that we grow to despise
The lives that are lost and the tears we’ve cried
They’re holding the guns and the body counts
Time to open our eyes and see!
I always thought we were capable
of casting aside inescapable
deadly habits that lead
to our misery
why will nobody
sit at this table
Corporate leaders and G20 Figure heads
making deals to line all their pockets
playing with lives
more ambition than ethics
when will our
voices be on the docket?
As we stand arm in arm on the streets tonight
and our passions unite
in the fading light
Will we work to unwind this fabric of lies
that makes us nothing more than
slaves in disguise
