Beyond The Trillionth Tonne

from Fool EP by Atlas Cedar

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A song about climate change and our effect on the planet, its climate and our future. Inspired by a Nature paper about 'the trillionth tonne' of CO2 emissions, this song had/has a working title of 'Sonoma' and was originally about grapes 'withering on the vine'... I didn't realise that 'withering on the vine' is an expression about doing nothing while a problem gets worse and worse, which fits in very well with the subject of climate change.

www.nature.com/articles/nature08019
trillionthtonne.org

This song is the twin song of 'Fool' - both songs were written within 48 hours of each other back in May, and both songs were recorded and published online within 24 hours of each other... in August. Both songs were written and played using a bouzouki as opposed to a guitar.

lyrics

wither on the vine
poisoning the wine

the futures on the line
running out of time

what have we done
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

beyond the trillionth tonne
planets going to burn
facing everyone
the barrel of a gun

too late now
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

what have we done
don't blame it on the sun
the time will come

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from Fool EP, track released August 25, 2019
(c) 2019 Lyrics and Music by Chris Syme
Photography by Hasan Almasi (@hasanalmasi) on Unsplash.com
Used under Creative Commons license

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