Bill Keyes on The Chris Hedges Report

[Bill Keyes]

Hi I am a music composer lyricist and world’s

oldest rapper (81)

Here is a rap I wrote 4 years ago. If you want to

hear it go to SoundCloud.com and type BK Climate Change in the search engine.

I want to talk to you today

About a subject that wont go away

It should important to everyone on earth

And you should be concerned for what it's worth

For millions of years this place we call home

has survived many disasters and carried on

Ice ages earthquakes and many other events

Even some that heaven sent

Then not so long ago in the distant past

Man came to this place that was so vast

That it took many years for him to roam

This wonderful place that we call home.

Verse 2

Man roamed to places near and far

Sailing on ships guided by the stars

He was amazed at the things he saw

And he held in respect and awe

So for mellinia still in the past

He multiplied and occupied this place very fast

And coexisted with the life that was already here

Until things started to change one year

The long time balance between nature and man

that should have been the gospel of all lands

Started to swing towards mankind

And it affected nature for the very first time

Verse 3

So in recent years scientists became concerned

And decided to study and to learn

What was causing the balance to change

cause indeed it was very strange

So they soon discovered man's drive to control

The earth from sea to sea and pole to pole

Was starting to effect nature in a bad way

So they studied and here's what they had to say

The earth is experiencing climate change

Words that seemed to us very strange

And if we dont change our ways

Nature would soon cope in it's very own way

Verse 4

So that's the subject I speak of today

That simply will not and should not go away

So all the earth's peoples of all the earth's lands

should come together and understand

That climate change is not a joke

Cause the whole world could end up going up in smoke

So the time is now to start to plan

To start making changes to how we occupy our land

Cause if we don't act immediately

Nature will make changes don't you see

When we finally decide to act

It may be too late and that's a fact