I’ve got to say, this song is hitting closer and closer to home, and feeling more and more relevant In a directly personal way every year as the climate change’s dire consequences become more and more clear. More and more clearly we hear newsmen describing the mounting evidence that our world and everything in it will face very real days of reckoning. It’s easier and easier to imagine hearing stories like the one described in the song being for real on the actual evening news.
That said, this is still a beautiful song that I have long loved. It just feels less fictional and more inadvertently prophetic now than when it was written. I mean, last week was a news story about an oceanographic expedition to study the underside of a huge melting glacial ice sheet in Antarctica. When it breaks off and melts in the sea, that single event is expected to raise sea level 11 feet worldwide. And it seems to be melting faster than they thought.
“... Five years, what a surprise. Five years, my brain hurts oh Lord...”
I’ve got to say, this song is hitting closer and closer to home, and feeling more and more relevant In a directly personal way every year as the climate change’s dire consequences become more and more clear. More and more clearly we hear newsmen describing the mounting evidence that our world and everything in it will face very real days of reckoning. It’s easier and easier to imagine hearing stories like the one described in the song being for real on the actual evening news.
That said, this is still a beautiful song that I have long loved. It just feels less fictional and more inadvertently prophetic now than when it was written. I mean, last week was a news story about an oceanographic expedition to study the underside of a huge melting glacial ice sheet in Antarctica. When it breaks off and melts in the sea, that single event is expected to raise sea level 11 feet worldwide. And it seems to be melting faster than they thought.
“... Five years, what a surprise. Five years, my brain hurts oh Lord...”