Sorry kids

I’m Sorry kids it happened to you on my watch

We’ve given half your world away

I should have been alert I should have raised my voice

Not just looked the other way

I’ve no defence to offer dreams to chase and fantasies to follow

Wanted to be loved but it’s too late for that

[final phrase] we’re sorry it turned out like this

V2 It’s human greed that drives the world and makes it dark

Just people wanting more and more Some of them

have so much stuff they dream of flying to mars

They never check outside their door

Its brutal but we have to admit

Its not good – it’s pretty shit

We cannot now protect our world from what goes on

so many things that cannot be right

[V3 instrumental] doo bee doo bee

V4 it goes on and on I think I’ll die from shame Or will I simply fade away

Fading into black never coming back No-one cares much anyway

a friend the other day

challenged my commitment in a direct way

What reason do you have to sing the blues all day

When life is good in so many ways

V5 We didn’t know / We didn’t know

We couldn’t see

We didn’t try to count you in (down) {and RPT}

I’ve no defence to offer

dreams to chase and fantasies to follow

The world turned and we don’t know it

Big bucks are all there is to show it

We didn’t know / We didn’t know

We couldn’t see

Composition Notes

The environmental catastrophe all over the world that we have witnessed has largely happened in my lifetime. So this is about should I have done something about it after all I was around. Now we have eco-warrior heroes to look up to it makes regular people feel inadequate and guilty.

Musically it's a minor blues in G minor.

Recorded 2019