Song-writer: Ben Grosscup
Performed by Ben Grosscup on February 26, 2018 in West Hartford, CT at a conference organized by 350 CT.
You make your profits from extractive industries
This changes everything
Your business plan would heat the Earth by six degrees
This changes everything
You claim the rights to the atmosphere
You take more space every single year
But seven billion other people live down here
This changes everything
You strip the coal, you drill the seas, you frack the land
This changes everything
Poisons fill the Earth as your pipeline routes expand
This changes everything
Your business grows, and your wealth accrues
You launch Super PACs and bloody coups
For you to win, we all must lose
This changes everything
The poor seek refuge from disasters you create
This changes everything
Your mansion’s on a hill, and guards are at the gate
This changes everything
You buy the government, and you write the laws
You send drilling rigs where the Arctic thaws
People gonna rise like the floods you cause
This changes everything
Imagine the world that will be
Unfolding from history and the futures we dare to see
This changes everything
Living soil holding carbon taken from the air
This changes everything
Don’t need a car when public transit lines are there
This changes everything
Freedom for the migrant and the refugee
This changes everything
Sharing with my neighbor who also shares with me
This changes everything
Power from the wind, and waves, and sun
This changes everything
Power in our hands when victory is won
This changes everything
Our children will live with dignity
On the only home for humanity
By our own hands, we will live free
This changes everything x 3
Chords:
C / G C
F G C / / /
C / G Am
F G C / C7 /
F / Em / Dm /
Dm-C G / G9 G
Dm9 F9 G Am /
F G C / / /
