Here’s the somewhat rough draft version of this song. this is inspired by a number of Youtube videos of another Mark Shepard… Another Mark L. Shepard actually. We’re about the same age but he’s a farmer in Wisconsin who writes songs on the side. I’m a songwriter in New York who “farms” in my back yard… His idea of “restoration agriculture” combined with the local battle to ban fracking in New York state got this song flowing… This version is NOT suitable for children. Check out the video version to learn more…
Gonna Build Us A Desert
(On The Bones of Paradise)
Song #496 | 12/31/2014 | CD: tbd
Mono Cropping
Factory farms
Mega Manure lagoons
Behind Mega Barns
Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise
Frack the future
Frack the past
Frack the aquifers
To extract a little gas
Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise
Mass extinctions
While we watch football games
And debate distinctions
And who to blame
Gonna Build us a desert
On the Bones of Paradise
Anti-biotics
by the ton
build up resistance
like a smoking gun
Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise
Poison water
Poison air
Poison thinking
And we’ll soon be there
Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise
10 billion chickens sit
In their own shit
To keep it cheap enough
So you’ll buy it…
Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise
Masive erosion
Toxic flow
And when it’s over
where are we gonna go?
Gonna build us a desert
on the bones of paradise
em | AmSus at 5th fret
Copyright 2014-2015 by Mark Lewis Shepard. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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