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Manifest Destiny

from Whatever Souls Are Made Of by Strawberry Riot

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I originally wrote this because of the Animas River wastewater spills.

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I don't want to think about what will happen
When the river beds dry up and die
And I don't want to think about what will be when the last tree falls and there are no bees
I don't want to choke on the toxic smoke from Monsanto's monopolisation
And they've been killing the soil and drilling for oil since the Anglo colonisation

Til the last sheep's slaughtered
They will not rest til our sons and our daughters
Are all bound in chains in a world that's sustained by a self serving capitalist dream
And I really want to believe we can pull it together that all you need is love but some days it seems there's just too much to hate and no matter how hard I try I just can't love enough

I don't want to think about what will happen when our rights are signed away to the trade organisations
And I don't want to think about what might be if none of are left to march on the streets
And I don't want to be a part of the problem of racist and classist segregation
I don't want to be a part of any of that
So I'll bite back and fight back

Til the last sheep's slaughtered
They will not rest til our sons and our daughters
Are all bound in chains in a world that's sustained by a self serving capitalist dream
And I really want to believe we can pull it together that all you need is love but love didn't save us from manifest destiny and we can't seem to not fuck it up

If a tree falls in the forest
Does anyone hear it fall
Well no ones gonna be there to hear it because we'll all be extinct

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from Whatever Souls Are Made Of, released December 13, 2015

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