The lungs of the Planet
\nare blackened by
\nThe Texaco filth that
\nrose into the sky
\nThe spillage that ran
\ninto rivers and streams
\nand sank into pits
\nending all of our dreams<\/p>\n
We are the indigenous people
\nwe live
\nin the forests of Paradise
\nthat we now give
\nOur power and our medicine
\nto you to try
\nAnd heal our green forest
\nunder the sky
\nThe heart of the planet
\nOur women who bare
\nOur children their bodies
\nwracked with despair<\/p>\n
Terrible rashes
\nHorrible sores
\nscars in their eyes
\nDown on all fours
\nUnable to walk
\nUnable to run
\nUnable to cry
\nOr look up at the sun
\nWith your chimneys of fire
\nAnd your long pipes that spill
\nThe black evil vomit
\nthat really does kill<\/p>\n
The fish that we eat
\nlay at deaths door
\nRiddled with maggots
\nfat and sick gore
\nThe birds that were flying
\nlay by their side
\nWorms now engulfing them
\nall in their stride
\nThe Deer too beside them
\nyes also dead
\nThis is the zone
\nWhere the sick
\nsouls seem led<\/p>\n
Texaco\/Chevron
\nyou left your gift
\nOf this oily and
\nsinful sludge filled drift
\nYou employ Spanish gentlemen
\nwho use double Dutch
\nLawyers and Scientists
\nWho think too much
\nWe lived in Paradise
\nBut after you came
\nThe dice that you threw
\nwere part of your game
\nOur childrens cancers grow
\nby the day
\nAnd the water we drink
\nAnd for that now we pay<\/p>\n
We are the Cofon
\nProud people, we
\nBorn in the Lungs of the Earth
\nYes we be
\nWe the Huarani, Bold yes we be
\nBorn in the green of the
\nEarth good and free
\nWe are the Quichua
\nYes here we are
\nFollowers of the
\nprominent star
\nWe the Secoya
\nCommunity
\nAmazon People
\nIndefinately<\/p>\n
David and Goliath
\nThat’s now the call
\nThe Corporate struggle
\nto end it all
\nTo extend the legal battle till
\nWe all give up
\nBut we never will
\nThough they rape and pillage
\nand walk away
\nAnd it truly bugs us
\ntheir display
\nof irreverence
\nin the cause we fight
\nYes we are the people
\nof the light<\/p>\n
Pablo Pajarro, he is free
\nHis degree at Loho University
\nMuscles, machines,
\nand eerie smoke
\nSpill after spill,
\nit has been no joke
\nGigantic snakes
\nspill oil all around
\nThe crudest of Crude
\nnow soaks into our ground
\nHell on this Earth
\nour homes have become
\nChevron the Corporate
\nleaves us all numb<\/p>\n
They prostitute themselves
\nand do it each day
\nAnd their scientists
\njust have little to say
\nWe cleaned up our mess
\nwe are the Gods
\nIn fact in reality
\nthey are such sods<\/p>\n
Its one great big swindle
\nall that they do
\nto us, the indigenous people
\nnow who
\nHave protected the forest
\nfor years and for years
\nand now every day of our life’s
\nfilled with tears
\nThe bananas won’t grow
\nThe Yucca’s too dry
\nCancer is rife
\nSo many now die
\nThe pan flutes are silent
\nJust pretty words
\nFrom Chevron
\nalongside
\nmore dying birds <\/p>\n
Texaco\/Chevron walked away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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