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I‘m no good at being noble.
But it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of one little person don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Someday you’ll understand that.
Not now.
That’s what I told my cat when I sat her down to finally spill those very same beans on the global warming situation.
Sweetheart, I told her, the world has always been ending… the gravity pulling us toward the edge of the abyss is sometimes the only thing keeping us moving forward… but I know you’re worried about the polar bears. And I am too.
It may be too late for them and it’s always too late for us…
But we’ve got each other.
And we’ll always have that…in the cosmic sense, anyhow.
Trainwreck Life
lyrics
Trainwreck Life
(working title)
It’s just one trainwreck after another
it’s just one disaster followin’ the t’other
It’s a wonder I can get back on my feet
to fall again
Some catastrophe
Some calamity
more adversity
more insanity
it’s the way it goes in the world
of mice and men
Cataclysm and devastation
tragedy and desolation
yet I know it’s the way it goes
my friend
double debacles and treble trouble*
cauldron of misfortune set to boil and bubble
I’ve seen the future it’s
more of the same to the end
Waterloo was just a hiccup
Little Big Horn just all a big mixup
When everything is ashes
maybe we can all be friends
Suns explode and worlds collide
all us little specks along for the ride
the fabric of time and space
someday willl mend
Cataclysm and devastation…
Suns explode and worlds collide
all us little specks along for the ride
in the end it all — comes down to the end
2007-10-28
(C)2007, TK Major
*It came to my attention after writing this song that I, for my whole life, had been using the number three pronunciation of debacle. After that realization, every time I heard someone using the number one, soft a [ah] (or the never-heard-’round-these-parts second-preferred short a), it bugged me. Not least because if I changed my pronunciation, it would through the rhythm of the song off. I finally hit on changing the lyric and doubling up the cadence to the line above — double debacles and treble trouble — from the orginal debacles and double trouble.
