2C from New Kicks by Crooked Mowth
The climate crisis is real. We cannot wait for someone else to fix it for us. More importantly, we must either take responsibility, in order to leave a liveable world for our children and grandchildren, or suffer significant consequences, ever sooner than we thought possible. So, in the spirit of recognizing both the danger we face and the opportunity to address it head on, we wrote 2C. We are ever grateful to our friend and very talented Boston-area composer, Andrés Ballesteros, who wrote this intricate piece of vocal music, and for managing to work with such mellifluous words as magnates, temperature and thermometer.
And thank you Al and Greta for all you are doing.
Tracklist
| 3. | 2C | 3:53 |
Lyrics
Our world is perfect, we used to boast.
Four seasons foll’wing their part of the plan,
But with each nor’easter that razes the coast,
The rivers flow over, the tides sweep inland.
The world is waking up and change is coming, we shout!
The climate crisis is real as rain
A truth inconvenient for those moved by greed
Or those too ign’rant to feel others pain
When the floods drown our cities and don’t recede.
We can’t just hide away and wait to be swept out to sea.
The fires will keep raging out west and down under
As the world's biggest nations are guilty of arson while plund’ring Mother Earth
The heatwaves will keep growing, ecosystems torn asunder
We must halt this ongoing failure and fight for a rebirth.
We must stand for our future, we must stop this grand theft.
The fossil fuel magnates bow to their gilded shrine
And avert their eyes from temp’rature extremes
Our youth remind us that all Earth’s life is intertwined.
How can they forgive us? We have stolen their dreams.
We must fight for the Earth before there’s nothing left to see.
If the ocean currents shift, we cannot change their tack;
if the glaciers melt away, we cannot bring them back;
If the bees are not protected, we’ll have nothing left to eat;
But with a bit of humility…
We can harness the wind,
We can harness the waves,
Let's be bold! Not give in to defeat!
Acknowledge reality, stop hiding behind disguises,
The time to act is now, before the thermometer rises 2°C.
Credits
License
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Crooked Mowth is an a cappella quartet from the Boston area, conceived by harmony-hungry friends during the COVID-19 pandemic. Haley Fisher, Jennie O’Brien, Jim Henderson, and James Gerke deliver a rich vocal blend and unique arrangements to songs old and new. Though the performers already have a comfortable home in trad/folk singing, their goal is to make an impactful sound across genres.