People power is the only way

STOP Belo Monte
it read from the air
300 people
their passions did share
This out pouring of grief
due to the way
Brazil has created
Belo Monte

At the Amazon’s heart
The great river Xing gu
They, restored its flow
of course with the view
They erected, crosses
for the hundreds
who’ve died
planting new trees
on the opposite side
Providing this channel
through the coffer dam brought
water flowing again
which was what they all sought.

This is the artery
that they all need
this brings them life
And helps them succeed
A dam isn’t needed here
it cuts the flow
of lifes blood
to all of the people
you know
This hydro electric project
was wrong
This was the message
contained in their song

And all were now singing it
their life regained
This Land is ours
of course they complained
as the Corporates came
with promises too
guarantee markets
which no one can do
This indigenous Land
is clearly the way
Back from disaster
Lets get real Today!

Brazil has to reckon
what this dam achieves
the corporate nonsense
no one believes
except politicians
reckoned to be
up in the world
of this Dam policy
There are thousands of
people who thrive on the edge
Of the mighty Xing gu
which many allege
has to be flowing
this project must cease
The land is ours
Only we can release

The grief and the
sadness
the terrible pain
affecting the people
its clearly now plain
the mighty Xing gu
must continue to flow
for otherwise this dam
will be a death blow

The Rio Earth summit
must realise now
That the mighty Xing gu
Is obviously how
Thousands of people
live, out their lives
and this unwanted Dam
will mean no one survives
Now it boils down
to the end of their world
carrying on with the project
has hurled
Them into a maelstrom of
uncertainty
at the heart of the Amazon
born to be free.