Green and Blue

This song is about how mankind is failing as the steward of the Earth's resources.

Green and Blue © ..................................Michael Raucci

From the chimneys come black and gray
What once was forests is charred today
Oil spills on oceans black
Furs they fill a burlap sack

Landfills piled up so high
Through darkened lungs our children cry
The sun shines through and burns my skin
The Earth she bears mankind’s sin

Children who shan’t be fed
Into wars are people led
There are no fish left in the sea
Gluttons write our legacy

(chorus)
Green and Blue
The colors of life’s mystery
Green on land and blue at sea
I hope someday for me and you
That we live in Green and Blue

Our power plants make toxic waste
There’s poisons in the food we taste
The blood of sharks turns oceans red
For fin soup they are slaughtered dead

Colored Green and Blue, Earth ought to be
But brown and gray is all I see
The acid rains down from the sky
While leaders feed us hopes and lies

(chorus)
Green and Blue
The colors of life’s mystery
Green on land and blue at sea
I hope someday for me and you
That we live in Green and Blue

The polar bear hasn’t very long
The nightingale can’t sing her song
The darkness that envelopes me
Is mankind’s folly and debris

No matter what, Earth will go on
When from her plains mankind is long gone
Life will recover after many years
And Green and Blue will reappear

Green and Blue are nearly gone
Won’t you listen to this song
There’s time to change our planet’s state
Or Black and gray is our Earth’s fate
And extinction will we men await