Let Me Tell You A Story

Let Me Tell You A Story 

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Let me tell you a story

Bout a species gone crazy

Threatening life on earth

Our children 

Future babies 

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Let me tell you a story

Titanic has set sail

Better get to the

Lifeboats 

Our  ship 

Soon fails 

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Let me tell you a story

Our species must face

The sickness within 

Or it's 

The last thing 

We'll  taste

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We tasted life

Our future 

Is  past

Happiness 

Good times

In this world 

Do not

Last 

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At root in life 

What matters is love

We must come together

Or our future ends

Flowing violent 

Rivers of blood

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Blood of all beings 

Without exception 

On this road 

Suffering

We are lost 

No direction

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Better get off this road

Ain't going nowhere friend

On highways chasing

Wealth and power

It's a dead end

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Phoenix can rise

Embers and ashes

If it don't happen soon

What supports life 

Crashes

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Said it before

Say it again

Love is all there is

Everything else

Comes to an end 

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My dear friend

Can you hear

Children cry 

leave the

Darkness 

Open

Your eyes

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I've told 

my story 

To you 

My friends

May the 

World listen 

Before all 

Species

Come to 

An end 

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David Penn Arndt 2022

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Artwork by the Welch Brothers