Lyrics

Tell Your Kid
words and music by Matthias Clark
may 19 2019


V1
Take all you can, do what you will.
This burning aint no fire drill.
Ah, Midnight mass is done and gone,
This great extinction crashing on.
He tried to warn us, Jaques Cousteau,
We shouldn’t let the oceans go.
Don’t turn away, look what we did.
Now what are you gonna tell your kid?

chorus:
I only want whats good for you
and I don’t know what we can do.
I’m praying here Lets take a stand
and Make the best of it all.

V2
A field of dreams gone in a flood.
Fools on a hill full of bad blood.
I hear ‘em laughing at our crowd.
Theres too much noise to speak out loud.
Like silent spring they slip away,
These smallest creatures everyday.
If I didn’t know better I’d lose my nerve,
Heading round this dead mans curve.

chorus

V3
What makes no sense is plain and clear
I feel the fire, smell the fear.
One good sunset and maybe two,
Before the darkness gets to you.
I’ll hold your hand if you hold mine.
I swear we’re running out of time.
We go together, or go alone.
I sure do love our earthly home.

Final Chorus Double
I only want whats good for you
and I don’t know what we can do.
I’m praying here Lets take a stand
and Make the best of it all.