Climate Criminal
Check the mirror, see the smog in the city light We’re dancing
on a wire in the dead of night
You ignite the engine,
you feel the rush of speed But you ignore the hunger and
the dying seed
Just another morning, just another commute While the roots of the garden
are turning to soot.
You say you’re just a passenger,
riding on the tide But there is nowhere left for a ghost
to hide The mercury is climbing,
the ice is turning thin And this is where the reckoning begins!
Stop the clock!
Break the spell! We’re ringing out a planetary bell!
If you stand by silent while the forests fall
You’re writing the ending for us all!
It’s a crime of silence,
a debt we can't pay
Tossing our future and our lives away
You’re a Climate Criminal,
hiding in the gray
Polluting the air,
stealing the day! (Climate Criminal!) Yeah,
you’re a Climate Criminal!
“I’m just one person,” that’s the lie you tell
A convenient fiction in a burning shell
You call it a drop
in an ocean of blue
But the ocean is rising because of people like you!
Every engine humming, every furnace fire
Is a brick in the wall
of a funeral pyre.
You say it’s too late,
that the damage is done
But that’s just a cop-out,
a race you haven't run The inaction of millions is the weight
on the scale And we’re drifting together toward a systemic fail!
(Male): You burn the oil...
(Female): You choke the sky...
(Male): You watch the river...
(Female): Slowly run dry...
(Male): “It’s not my fault,” is the coward's plea...
(Female): While you lock the chains on the legacy!
(Both): IT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!
TO POISON THE BREEZE!
TO BRING EVERY KINGDOM DOWN
TO ITS KNEES!
Stop the clock!
Break the spell!
We’re ringing out a planetary bell!
If you stand by silent while the forests fall
You’re writing the ending for us all!
It’s a crime of silence,
a debt we can't pay
Tossing our future and our lives away
You’re a Climate Criminal,
hiding in the gray Polluting the air,
stealing the day! (Female): No more cop-outs...
(Male): No more lies...
(Female): Look at the world...
(Male): Through open eyes...
(Both): Climate Criminal... (Climate Criminal...) Stop the burn...
Before there's nothing left to turn...