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by Gary E. Andrews - 03/04/24 12:47 PM
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Industrial disease Verse Poisons and carcinogens pollute our air and streams Sometimes what seems like progress just isn’t what it seems. This nightmare that we’re livings the death of our dream. Chorus Factories exhaling; spewing their disease; the world is slowly dying as it struggles just to breath. Yes the world is slowly dying of industrial disease. Verse Garbage and factory waste get towed to sea by barge. Sometimes even small mistakes grow into something large. We all could point the finger but the fault is ours. Chorus Factories exhaling; spewing their disease; the world is slowly dying as it struggles just to breath. Yes the world is slowly dying of industrial disease. Bridge Apathy and ignorance A Pollyanna view of government and politics have led us to be screwed. Repeat/Verse 1
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Ah, but there are so many who are nostalgic for the days of the smokestacks because the jobs there tended to pay better than did the fast food and retail jobs which replaced them. In spite of it all it seemed as though the country was stronger when the smokestacks were here although it did have its ugly side which you have captured here. Many thought that Donald Trump was going to revive them which many folks feel is why he got elected, and that this is what the whole MAGA slogan refers to.
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No offense, but the world's not dying, slowly or otherwise. I don't know where you live but streams around here aren't polluted and the air's pretty clean. The air in China's pretty bad and we could use a few less nuts setting fires but the list of complaints here just doesn't ring true. Sure, things could be better (LA's always gonna be an ad for Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster), but this lyric reads like Ed Begley Jr's wet dream.
Thanks to progress, the average lifespan is far higher now than it was 200 years ago. I don't like billboards or smokestacks, either, but I'll gladly take em over living in a teepee or a cave all winter long. Or summer. I like my running water, my fridge, my stove, my toilet, my ac, my heater and my big ass flatscreen.
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I have to agree with Couch. The problems you list would have been relevant a few decades back. If you wanted to do something like this with relevance to a contemporary audience, it would be things like plastic bottles and climate change.
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I'm not threatened by plastic bottles at all. And the weather is no more threatening to me than it ever has been.
What does threaten me is loss of livelihood due to government overreach regarding Covid, encroaching crime as a result of soft on crime policies and nuts setting fires.
Ask a resident of Chicago what troubles him more...the soaring homicide rate, or plastic bottles.
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Fair enough, Couch, but that would be a different song. If you were some form of marine life, and, to be clear, I have no evidence that you are, you might be more worried about all that plastic.
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