Tom More is the founder of Restrung Lefty Media Productions (www.RestrungLefty.com) and a multi-instrumentalist (bass, keyboards, drums) and vocalist. He is ava
A friend of mine had contacted me about joining the online community for oilman T. Boone Pickens website for alternative energy, a01CThe Pickens Plan.a01D He was a small investor and was quite excited about the possibilities of the new technologies that were being investigated with gas then topping three dollars a gallon. He said the organization was also looking for theme songs that could be used online and at live events and I should try to write something for it. I recognized that this was an issue that touched a lot of passion in people on both sides of the energy policy debate and thought that music with a lot of counterpoint would capture both the emotional and rational component of the argument. The verses and choruses alternate with this feel while the overall theme is a strident call to action. The minor key gives the sense of urgency and danger appropriate to a matter of such overarching implications to the environmental and economic health of the nation and the world. Surprisingly, for a complex song of varied moods, time signatures, and tempos, and the one that took the most time to mix, I completed the writing in just over a week. Ia019m pretty sure thata019s a record for any of these tunes.
Lyrics
You look too burdened
In the setting sun
And I can feel the frustration
Of nothing getting done
Big talk thata019s all empty
The thing we need wona019t last
Instead of moving with purpose
They try to run to the past
CHORUS 1
Did we see it coming?
It would be to our great shame
Is the polar ice cap melting?
Will the trees all fall in flames?
Urban air keeps growing toxic
While we bankroll all our foes
Could we explore all the options?
Is there time? Heaven knows
World riddled with conflict
The market ebbs and flows
We grasp a slender lifeline
Get tossed wherever it goes
Budgets growing tighter
Dollar buys a dime
Families try to make ends meet
Robber barons live fine
CHORUS 2
Media sells us crisis
Causes panic in the streets
Are we bound to be stampeded?
Civic actiona019s bold retreat
Will our leaders vow to fix it?
But their impotence may show
Will a stand cost re-election?
Is there time? Heaven knows
So cliched
Just a grand charade
Play shell games
Thief and the watchman are one in the same
Lay the blame
Everyone
Holds the smoking gun
Make this vow
Calling for action wea019ll get satisfaction now
Heads unbowed
Skyscraping islands
Above a mist so fair
But in the city of angels
Could cut the smoggy air
Flash of genius
Have it both ways
Tap into the resources
Clean the noxious haze
CHORUS 3
Moving fast and going nowhere
Will someone just look ahead?
Our political correctness
Shoots communication dead
Special interests as our conscience
If wea019re bothered it dona019t show
Reclaim the freedom nature gave us
Is there time? Heaven knows
