Lyrics by Bad Religion. In case someone is unfamiliar with them, their singer has a Ph. D from Cornell in cultural studies. And the bands lyrics are gernally considered some of the smartest in all of music...period!The song is called "Kyoto Now." Some very deep and well thought out verse.
It's a matter of prescience
No, not the science fiction kind
It's all about ignorance, and greed, and miracles for the blind
the media parading, disjointed politics
founded on petrochemical plunder
and we're its hostages
If you stand to reason you're in the game
the rules might be elusive but our pieces are the same
and you know if one goes down we all go down as well
the balance is precarious as anyone can tell
this world's going to hell
Don't allow this mythologic hopeful monster to exact its price
Kyoto now!
We can't do nothing and think someone else will make it right
You might not think it matters now
But what if you are wrong
You might not think there's any wisdom
in a fucked up punk rock song
But the way it is cannot persist for long
a brutal sun is rising on a sick horizon
It's in the way we live our lives
exactly like the double-edge of a cold familiar knife
and supremacy weighs heavy on the day
it's never really what you own but what you threw away
and how much did you pay?
In your dreams You saw a steady state a bounty for eternity
Silent screams but now the wisdom
that sustains us is in full retreat
Don't allow this mythologic hopeful monster
isn't worth the risk Kyoto now!
We can't have vision for the future if it can't be fixed
We need a fresh and new religion to run our lives
Hand in hand the arid torpor of inaction will be our demise
Oh, Kyoto now!
Do I really need to say anything else after this?
Think for yourself, and think of the result of your actions.
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