I'm pretty sure this is the most time/work I've put into one of these yet. Tried really hard not to half-ass this. There was so much more that I wanted to do with it, but there's only a week to work on it. Still, pretty happy with the end result. Not so much the mixing, but I can live with it. This is a preachy tongue-in-cheek song about how we've let the environment go to shit. It starts out with kind of a galloping country-western feel, and I wanted to go straight up dixieland jazz at the end...I did what I could without the aid of a horn section. So, there's that. I was also picking up terrible pop radio signals through the wires as I recorded the last section of the song. If you think you hear Bruno Mars very softly in the background, you are not mistaken. Here are the lyrics, since my diction probably isn't the greatest, and I'm pretty proud of a few of the lines.

Acid rain on your cupcake, increasing the uptake of poison in your life.
Nuclear Waste in your milkshake, didn't taste as good as you thought it would.
Poor Mr. Polar bear, he's got nowhere to go.
With the Arctic melting, stuck on an ice flow.
Rumor has it, he won't get that far.
This never would have happened if you'd just shut off your car!
Coal slurry in your coffee, HURRY, GET IT OFF ME! GAH! IT BURNS!
Chloroflourocarbons ruin your hard-ons, fricking fracking frucking up your freedom water.
Hey Mr. Tunafish! You ever been to Mercury?
Well... Mercury's been to you! (rimshot!)
Speaking of our solar system, just send all the trash out there.
Space! Who needs it, am I right?
Offshore drilling interrupts tea time, it just might be time for solar panes on your roof.
CAT TAKEOVER! Getting pissy.
Perhaps you are missing the climate change proof...

Then there's a shit-ton of vamp and scat and stuff and junk.

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