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This song is a love song to our great (and only) home and a plea for help

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Mother Earth

Life oozing from the body
Blood dripping from the wounds
Hers is a long hard story
Oh, a loveless honeymoon
Started with the invention of man
Who thought himself oh so grand
That he was able to stand
To walk without bending down

Mother Earth, Mother Earth
Hope you haven’t spent your life in vain
Mother Earth, you deserve
To never have to feel such pain
It’s getting worse, oh Mother Earth
Can’t stop your dying by myself
I’m pleading, calling out,
Calling out to get some help

Caveman killed the bounty
Natives tilled the soil
But then man poured the concrete
And covered up her soul
Poisoned the air that she breathed
Spoiled her living seas
Now she lies here unable to stop
To stop the wounds that bleed

Mother Earth, Mother Earth
I hope you haven’t spent your life in vain
Mother Earth, oh you deserve
To never have to feel such pain
It’s getting worse, oh it’s getting worse Mother Earth
Can’t stop your dying by myself
I’m pleading, calling out, calling out
Calling out to get some help.

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from The Cause (because) - Bob Read and Jim Matheson, released September 25, 2020

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