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You thought your children would live like kings and queens
And their children live like kids of kings
Even better, and we did for awhile

You filled their lives with futuristic things
That then devolved into necessities
And the heirs of progress can’t feed themselves

Now that we’re trapped inside your dream
How do we get back to a world where we’re not sleeping
Please say that you’re coming to wake me
With lead in our limbs and sleep in our eyes
We strive and fail to recognize
The real World from what’s inherited lies

But oh rescue us back to the world of your youth
Before the thread was lost connecting us
To sanity reality
All that’s uncertain now is which disaster will befall us first
Our whole lives lived in the time after the last stone’s been cast

We haven’t understood our place on Earth
Enclosed inside an artificial world
So we ignore all signs that life is dying all around us

We have to tell the truth to kids alright
If they want to live they’ll have to fight
And they’ll never have the lives their grandparents dreamed of

Now that they’re trapped inside our dream
There’s no way to get back to a world where life is thriving
They’d beg us if they knew what we’re hiding
With lies in their heads and love in their eyes
They embrace the World mesmerized
By the beauty that they don’t know is dying

But oh rescue us back to the world of your youth
Before the thread was lost connecting us
To sanity reality
All that’s uncertain now is which disaster will befall us first
Our whole lives lived in the time after the last stone’s been cast

(adapted from poem by Queen Elizabeth I
as performed by Medieval Baebes)
Our care is like our shadow laid bare beneath the sun
It follows us at all times and flies when we pursue it
We love and yet are forced to hate
Can’t see we let death overtake

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from The Other Side of Darkness, released August 30, 2015

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UHL is an acknowledgment of the ecological disaster we are facing. It is our moral obligation to build a culture of resistance to the system causing the destruction. Such a culture needs people to talk and sing and make art about the fact that a few humans are taking the lives of everyone else on Earth. Here is one contribution. What is your reaction to this crisis? Tell the world how you feel! ... more

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