The Only World

Another day, watching someone’s disaster on the television news 

It’s always been there kind of creeping up like a long slow burning fuse 

Quite a shock to contemplate that it might actually be true 

Before I’m lost again in all those pressing things I’ve gotta do 

Because this is the only world we’ve got, can’t you see? 

And no one can tell now what will be 

Through my car window, can’t point no fingers at the world and his wife 

Just another Joe, just another sleepwalker getting on with life 

You know I’ve got to deal with all the grinding things the long day brings 

Then sometimes it rears up like a monster, this really is everything 

This is the only world we’ve got, can’t you see? 

If there’s another like it, it’s too far to leap 

And after all this long history 

Are we gonna end it in misery? 

People pop up with all sorts of other things to say 

It’s just seasonal sunspots and they’re sure to melt away 

Everything swirls around in a vortex of denials and facts 

And I don’t know how to prove the world’s not flat 

But this is the only world we’ve got, don’t you see? 

And I ain’t got no science degree 

But it can’t be coincidence that all the boffins agree 

Somebody please plant a tree for me

Music by Matt Hall; Lyrics by John Harris

John Harris – Drums, Backing Vocals Matt Hall – Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards Paul Greening – Bass

Produced by John Harris and Matt Hall Engineered by Matt Hall at SLW

It’s easy to live with this idea, it’s always been there.  But it’s something in the future, it’s something that, of course, will be addressed.  We’ve got governments, there’s no way they’d let this just happen.  And then sometimes it just rears up, this is everything.  We’ve been part of the most rarified expression of the universe, and we couldn’t look after it.