Thom Yorke’s solo album focuses on climate change 3

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   TariffDude Posted 6:34 am
   21 Jul 2006

   Ice age comin'..."Although usually loath to discuss the meaning of his often-inscrutable songs with the press, he openly described..."
   Thom Yorke has a lot of lyrics which seem to be about alienation due to technology, and nobody ever stopped using a cell phone because they heard a Radiohead song; if anything, they got a Radiohead ringtone.  Forgive me if I'm dubious as to whether this album will have any impact, but at least it's a good sign, in a way.  
   I was much more encouraged by the recent poll: when more people in this country believe in anthropogenic global warming than evolution, that is real progress.

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   Rebecca F Posted 8:42 am
   11 Jan 2007

   Global Warming song by a U.S. woman!Hey Thom Yorke, I'm a nobody, but I'm with you!  My song GLOBAL WARMING was written October 15, 2005.  For an interesting "across the pond" take, hear GLOBAL WARMING at:
   http://www.myspace.com/RebeccaFmusic.  
   Lyrics follow.
   Best,
   
   Rebecca F.
   GLOBAL WARMING
   
   REBECCA F.  2005
   Landslides in L.A., a deluge of rain
   
   pours on the land like it's filling a drain.  
   
   Snow covers Colorado two feet high,
   
   the Minister of Truth said "It's been a wild summer."
   
   But it's October 15!
   Floods all along the Jersey coast,
   
   Massachusetts dams, damn near broke.
   
   Monster hurricanes every nine days.
   
   The weatherman says, "Well that's just the way it goes."
   
   But in the Arctic Sea the temperature grows!
   CHORUS
   
   Don't you know there's no such thing as global warming?
   
   The air temperature rises five degrees every day!
   
   All the ice caps melting are just a dream!
   
   So don't believe the facts you read, they don't prove a thing!
   I got a plant box on my balcony,
   
   the flowers are annuals:
   
   they're supposed to croak in spring.
   
   But every damn winter they survive,
   
   so by the summer they're still alive!
   
   Though the label says in frost they die!
   
   As bird flu spreads across the sky!
   
   And people live now till they're 85!
   
   And plastics waste in junkyards miles high!
   
   And we don't got a plan for all the survivors!
   
   And no one penalizes SUV drivers!
   
   But the louder we scream seems the more the beehivers
   
   walk on city streets with their goddamn blinders!
   CHORUS
   
   

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   candiru Posted 6:35 pm
   11 May 2008

   rock and ecologyGreetings from Greece. We see that uou try to make a similar effort like us, collecting songs about global warming. We have created  a similar blog "Rock and Ecology" in English language in the web adress:
   
   http://rockandecology.blogspot.com/
   hope you enjoy it and find it interesting. We have already took many ideas from this topic about environmental songs for future posts
   And we put here a metal song that you did't include:
   Testament-Greenhouse effect-Album:Practice what you preach
   Fools the ones who stray, the rain forest burns away
   
   Know what to believe, this is the air we breathe
   
   So the world we know is dying slow in South America
   
   Flames are burning down, all the trees to the ground
   Time is running low, we can't stay no more
   
   Wealth these people see, fight for eternity
   
   Lies they televise paid by their government
   
   There on! It's lingers on
   
   And they don't even care in they...
   Seal the Planet's fate
   
   Crimes they perpetrate
   
   Wasting precious land
   
   It's time to take a stand
   Our only hope to breathe again
   
   To stop the madness closing in
   
   What will we do when all is lost?
   
   Environmental holocaust... repeat
   Foes, these people go, someone destroyed their home
   
   Plagued with disease, left praying on their knees
   
   Laws protect the land, social justice in demand
   
   Smoke it fills the air into the atmosphere
   
   Now it's time to see a cycle of a tragedy
   
   On! It lingers on, and they don't even care if they
   Seal the Planet's fate
   
   Crimes they perpetrate
   
   Wasting precious land
   
   It's time to take a stand
   Our only hope to breathe again
   
   To stop the madness closing in
   
   What will we do when all is lost?
   
   Environmental holocaust...
   Listen it in youtube:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VHLtdpiBHE

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