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Complaint of the Cockcroach

from Songs for interesting times by Camilla Cancantata

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The Complaint of the Cockcroach

You despise us, criticise us, try to paralyse us
Call us vermin, want to wipe us out
You say there's too many of us - but we'd like to know
Why is it US that have to go?

You're doubling your species every day
Who's going to drive you lot away?
You're stealing the land, the sea and the air
And we say - that's not FAIR

There's too many of you - don't you see
You've already exceeded the earth's capacity
You're a plague and a crisis, you're out of all proportion
When will you learn to exercise some caution?

It isn't just you - it's your shopping and machines
Your industrial chemicals that you think make you clean
Everywhere you go you leave a trail of destruction
Chaos and poison from your mass production

You're the single biggest ecological disaster
Yet you keep multiplying faster and faster
With your houses, cars and pets and your families that grow
Where are the rest of us meant to go?

You make agricultural deserts where the rest of us can't thrive
You think it's the only way to stay alive
But how will you survive here all on your own?
It'll be a lonely planet when we've all gone

But when it comes to survival we've got the edge on you
There's no catastrophe we won't be able to get through
When your world collapses and you realise it's the end
Then you may wish you'd been a better friend

To the rest of us, who crawl or fly
Tunnel underground, or buzz through the sky
To the creatures you call pests, and a waste of space -
You may finally recognise we all have our place

But it'll be too late, if you don't act now
Realise your mistakes, and work out how
You can share the earth with the rest of us here
You've got to stop reproducing - isn't that clear?

You despise us, criticise us, try to paralyse us
Call us vermin, want to wipe us out
You say there's too many of us - but we'd like to know
Which one of us will be the first to go?

See www.populationmatters.org, if you are concerned about the continuing expansion of the human ecological footprint

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from Songs for interesting times, released April 4, 2012
All songs written and performed by camilla
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Camilla Cancantata, composer and improviser, and founding member of Footloose, a community arts group.

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