Listen Hard

Lyrics by David Faraday.

Music based on the Traditional song 'Matty Groves' (17th C)

Verse 1

A hurricane, a hurricane, the fifth one of the year,
These stormy times a consequence of the lives we live, I fear.

Flood and drought, forest fires eating at all hope.
The world is lost, we have failed, but then young Greta spoke:

Verse 2

“Listen hard, the future ours your politics have failed,
The truth is known, but rarely told young voices must prevail.
No longer will we sit in class, learn facts that are dismissed,

We will march and we will shout, your neglect we will resist”.

Verse 3

“You built a world, a complex world, but you built it all on sand,

Oil, coal, you’ve burnt so much and now we lose our land.
Your focus, often meaningless on the shallow and opaque,

Fashion, social media, you let the powerful dictate".

Verse 4

“Now I see a world in stress and now I see our fate,
I beg of you to listen hard our young lives are at stake.
Yes, our young lives are at stake.”

Verse 5

“A miracle, a miracle, the first one of our lives,
That’s what we need from you to stop to save this world and thrive.
This miracle, this miracle it’s still within our grasp,
Please listen hard to what we say, please listen and then please act."

"Please listen hard to what we say Please listen and then please act.”