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Standin' here on a highway turned into a lakeBorn on this planet that I didn't makeThe ice caps are melting, you can measure the riseOf the poisoned oceans, hear all the liesOf the political pundits and corporate crooksTheir accountants and scientists cooking the booksWith hardly an inkling of what it's aboutWedded to profit in flood and in droughtI'm talkin' to you from here at the end of the worldStandin' here on the bayou amidst mountains of soilWashed up farmland covered in oilOne ton every acre lost every yearAnd along with the pesticides, it ends up right hereMillions of miles of chemical wheatChallenging all that try to competeAnd lay waste to your country like we've done to oursLet them eat coffee, sugar, coca and flowersI'm talkin' to you from here at the end of the worldHere in the city shrouded in smokeTen million people this morning awokeTo a future of cancer, industrial diseaseSo let's build some more suburbs and buy SUVsCut down the mountains, burn all the coalAnd put all the money in a humongous bowlLetras de cancionesThey'll call it progress and they'll blame it on youTo end life as we know it to enrich the fewI'm talkin' to you from here at the end of the worldYes I speak to you now from an occupied placeYou might call it your home or a terrorist baseThey'll send your sons and your daughters to make sure that it's theirsWhile they sit in their mansions in plush leather chairsAnd everyone's waiting for us to decideIn dust we were born and in dust we resideWill we realize the commons is to shepherd and shareHere in this war zone called land, water and air?I'm talkin' to you from here at the end of the worldI'm talkin' to you from here at the end of the world From Letras Mania