It’s everywhere you turn
\nThe sleeping millions, they
\nGo about their business
\nAnd when asked turn away
\nShale gas is so loaded with
\nMoney it can buy
\nEvery bloody politician
\nUnderneath the sky<\/p>\n
Shale gas Christ it’s evil stuff
\nOur green and precious land
\nIs going to get the treatment
\nWho can understand
\nThe power yea all that money
\nOur children they will know
\nWhen it’s just too bloody late
\nThat there’s no where left to go<\/p>\n
The corporates are marching
\nTheir goon cops everywhere
\nFull of common purpose
\nWhich leads onto despair
\nThese plastic politicians
\nDeliver drivel they
\nRedact the criticism
\nAnd hope it goes away<\/p>\n
Millions of gallons of water
\nStolen from the state
\nTo be shoved down bore holes
\nAt an alarming rate
\nAnd back it comes contamination
\nRife you wait and see
\nThe vile seismic creative force
\nThen where will we be<\/p>\n
Unconventional drilling an anathema
\nFrom hell
\nIt starts with one well and moves so fast
\nPeople will not tell
\nThe truth just watch and wait
\nWitness the destruction
\nYou will see
\nThese bloody corporations
\nWill destroy you rapidly<\/p>\n
The land we have come to appreciate
\nThe trees the grasses they
\nWill all be turned to gas wells
\nToxic ponds away
\nAcross our land of plenty
\nEvaporator plots
\nPipeline grids criss crossing
\nWe shall all be tied in knots<\/p>\n
Radio activity and heavy metals
\nFalling with the rain
\nThe great garden of England
\nDestroyed by the insane
\nThe industry will shut us up
\nTheir corporate courts will be
\nPutting us in prison cells
\nAnd throwing away the key<\/p>\n
Fracking that’s the message
\nShale gas it will be
\nOur saviour their behaviour
\nIt’s to be a key
\nIndustry soon driving every neighbourhood
\nDestruction of the water, the air and the food
\nWe should<\/p>\n
Be up in arms but many
\nStill, of course turn away
\nIn their bloody mansions
\nFor someone else can pay
\nWhen they have no water
\nTo drink not anymore
\nThe aquifers polluted
\nAnd the people sick for sure<\/p>\n
The beautiful British countryside
\nTorn down everywhere
\nAll those fine old woodlands
\nA great space where despair
\nReplaces all those places
\nWhere we tasted the fresh air
\nBut now we just have bitterness
\nAnd pollution everywhere<\/p>\n
They deplete the water and turn it into trash
\nWhen you turn the taps on
\nThat’s when you get a rash
\nNosebleeds ear bleeds such deeds
\nAre how your life will go
\nAnd they will want to buy you out
\nAnd you won’t want to know<\/p>\n
Your house price will be laughable
\nTo the other side
\nOnly the gas company will offer you
\nAnd they’ve lied
\nYou will lose your trousers your knickers
\nAnd your shirt
\nAnd all you will have to show for it
\nIs radioactive dirt<\/p>\n
The Tories and the others
\nThey are a lying bunch
\nFracking is a monster
\nWho eats us all for lunch
\nKills our fighting spirit
\nGrabbing us by the throat
\nDestroying our lovely way of life
\nAnd sinking every boat<\/p>\n
If you have no water
\nAnd if you have no air
\nAnd all you see is gas trucks
\nMoving everywhere
\nDollars over health the maxim
\nThen what you will do
\nIs throw you arms up in the air
\nAnd wonder just why you<\/p>\n
Didn’t wake up sooner
\nWhy you let these bastards come
\nDrilling into fertile land
\nWhy your brains were numb
\nTo oligarchs and gentry
\nWhy you let them be
\nGods self made the corrupted few
\nWho will rule the roost just see<\/p>\n
They will leave behind the remnants of a country
\nRich and green
\nWoodland farmland lakes and hills
\nGrey lost and obscene
\nBitumin roads the trees all bare
\nNothing left for you
\nYour children and their children
\nWhat are they going to do<\/p>\n
Bless you and think highly of you
\nWhere everywhere they go
\nIt’s rank and just unnatural
\nThey are sick and now they know
\nHow you sold their future
\nWith your ignorant desire
\nTo believe the fucking governments of the day
\nWho just spewed fire<\/p>\n
dishonesty was thrown about
\nArrogance was too
\nThe shale gas corporations
\nThey knew what to do
\nThrow money at whatever problems
\nAnd just change the law
\nFracking is attacking
\nUs in fact it’s like a war<\/p>\n
Against the common people
\nAgainst everything we knew
\nEverything we fought for
\nThese bastards they did screw
\nThose of us who protested
\nStood our ground and said
\nFracking it is obvious
\nWhere we are being led<\/p>\n
But they went to their deaths alas
\nBleeding from their ears
\nThe spin the lies were commonplace
\nAs were all the
\nFears
\nImaginable around a bout
\nThe countryside where they
\nLived was plundered by these creeps
\nSome died along the way<\/p>\n
They were the protestors
\nThe activists those few
\nWho stood against the corporates
\nAnd supposedly who drew
\nSome lengthy wrath from some of them
\nBut it was not to be
\nThey lost almost everything
\nAnd passed eventually<\/p>\n
And now the world is looking back
\nAt how it came to be
\nThat a country green and beautiful
\nWas sacrificed we see
\nAn unedifying spectacle
\nA putrid swamp where some
\nLived in wondrous wonderment
\nUnder Neath the thumb<\/p>\n
Of the gas well corporations
\nThe compressor stations where
\nAll the drill sites leaking gas
\nA land of dark despair
\nCancers foul destruction
\nA land where all is lost
\nHell on earth nothing of worth
\nYes That has been the cost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s everywhere you turn The sleeping millions, they Go about their business And when asked turn away Shale gas is so loaded with Money it can buy Every bloody politician Underneath the sky Shale gas Christ it’s evil stuff Our … Continue reading