Written following the 2011 Tsunami/Earthquake in Japan, when the immediate wreckage of lives, homes, and livelihoods seemed overshadowed by the universal panic about the waves of financial uncertainty and radiation that threatened to follow; seemed to mirror so many issues in our lives, not least the inevitable rise in sea levels and the fragility of the pampered lives we cling to.
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Its the beginning of the end.
No clearer message you could send.
From the trickle comes a wave,
That becomes a huge cascade,
From the trickle comes a wave.
The government is not your friend,
The banks won't lend.
Who or what will save the poor?
Somehow the banks always get more.
From the trickle comes a wave.
From the cradle to the grave,
To the machines we are enslaved.
Our comforts come at great expense,
So who would come to our defense?
From the trickle comes a wave.
Intensive farming has it's sins,
And we'll still starve while profits win.
Spreading super bugs, or weeds, or fear,
We might have known it started here,
From the trickle comes a wave.
We see the brown stuff hit the fan,
And still we lack a master plan.
Out of the fat into the fire,
Reap the rewards of your desires,
From the trickle comes a wave....
We watch the pressure cookers vent,
Unleash a series of events,
Unfolds a human tragedy,
That will outlive you and me,
From the trickle comes a wave.
So who'll be lost within the rush?
When the crash comes,
Who will be crushed?
No escaping from the tides,
That approach us nations wide,
From the trickle comes a wave....
There's no escape from there my dear,
and no escape from here.
There's no escaping,
There's no escaping from the tides.
From the trickle comes a wave,
We'll be washed away...
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