"Save the Earth", included in "Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster" movie (1971)

Animals, God's animals
Don't go away, don't go
Flowers, my flowers
Don't go away, don't go
The sea has cobalt, it's full of mercury
Too many fumes in our oxygen
All the smog now is choking you and me
Good Lord, where is it gonna end?

Got to get it back, someday
Got to get it back, and soon now
For tomorrow maybe you and me
We're movin', we're movin', movin' to the Moon now
It's up to us to make a choice
We know what it's worth to save the Earth
Come raise your voice

Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
See the evil problem around us

Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
Save the Earth! (save the Earth)
And the Solution: stop pollution

A pop song included in a Godzilla environmental movie, where the gigantic creature, that has been created from radiation by nuclear explosions, decides to become defender of the earth and environment against another monstrous creature that has been created by pollution and spread death and havoc to planet Earth.

The lyrics above were found in the American version of the movie. The original slightly different lyrics in Japanese song version titled “Give back the Sun” performed by Keiko Mari were found translated in this site:
http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/G5355.htm

Read also about the silly copyright adventures of this song below:
http://www.godzillamonstermusic.com/G-011.htm

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"Dragonfly" by Ziggy Marley, album: Dragonfly (2003)

Everybody's worried about time
but I just keep that shit off my mind
people living on twenty four hour clocks
but we're on a ride that never stops

Hey mister bee the world change but you remain the same
and I wonder how you'll survive with the environment going down the drain
Hey miss dragonfly I see you look at me with your beautiful eyes
you must be wondering what type of creature am I

A dog looked at me and said ziggy why can't we trust man
puss and me get together why can't you all just understand
an old tree stood there silently listening to every word we said
as a tear fell he cried what type of creature is man

I said hey mister tree the world change but you remain the same
and I wonder how you survive with the environment going down the drain
hey miss butterfly I see you look at me with your beautiful eyes
you must be wondering what kind of creature am I

Everybody's worried about time
but I just keep that shit off my mind
people living on twenty four hour clocks
but we're on a ride yes we're on a ride we're on a ride that never stops

Hey mister bee the world change but you remain the same
and I hope you'll survive with the environment going down the drain
Hey miss butterfly i see you look at me with your beautiful eyes
you must be wondering what type of creature am I
you must be wondering what type of creature is man

Bob Marley's son, follows his father legend in political songs, but slighlty different in music. An ironic song about nature that can't be adjusted to a continually changing and polluted environment by humans who were perceived by other forms of life as a strange being.

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10000 maniacs (1987), (1989)

A Campfire Song by 10,000 Maniacs, album: In my tribe (1987)

A lie to say,
"Oh my mountain has coal veins and beds to dig.
500 men with axes and they all dig for me."

A lie to say, "Oh my river where many fish do swim,
half of the catch is mine when you haul your nets in."

Never will he believe that his greed is a blinding ray.
No devil or redeemer will cheat him.
He'll take his gold to where he's lying cold.

A lie to say, "O my mine gave a diamond as big as a fist."
But with every gem in his pocket, the jewels he has missed.

A lie to say, "O my garden is growing taller by the day."
He only eats the best and tosses the rest away.

Never will he be believe that his greed is a blinding ray.
No devil or redeemer can cheat him.
He'll take his gold to where he's lying cold. Six deep in the grave.

Something is out of reach
something he wanted
something is out of reach
he's being taunted
something is out of reach
that he can' beg or steal nor can he buy

his oldest pain
and fear in life
there'll not be time

A lie to say "O my forest has trees that block the sun
and when I cut them down I don't answer to anyone."

No, no, never will he believe that his greed is a blinding ray
no devil or redeemer can cheat him.
He'll take his gold where he's lying cold.


A song that depicts the predecence of greed at the expense of environmental protection, sustainability and saving of natural sources



“Poison in the well” by 10000 maniacs, album: Blind man’s zoo (1989)

Tell me what’s gone wrong.
I tilt my head there, under the faucet, but when I turn it on -- dry as paper.
Call the neighbors.
Who’s to blame for what’s going on?
In the dark without a clue I’m just the same as you.

O, they tell us there’s poison in the well,
That someone’s been a bit untidy and there’s been a small spill.
Not a lot, no, just a drop.
But there you are mistaken, you know you are.
I wonder just how long they knew our well was poisoned but they let us just drink on.

O, they tell us there’s poison in the well,
That someone’s been a bit untidy and there’s been a small spill.
All that it amounts to is a tear in a salted sea.
Someone’s been a bit untidy, they’ll have it cleaned up in a week.
But the week is over and now its grown into years since I was told that I should be calm, there’s nothing to fear here.
But I drank that water for years, my wife and my children.

Tell me, where to now, if your fight for a bearable life can be fought and lost in you backyard?

O, don’t tell us there’s poison in the well,
That someone’s been a bit untidy, that there’s been a small spill.
All that it amounts to is a tear in a salted sea.
Someone’s been a bit untidy, they’ll have it cleaned up in a week.

A song about the common cases of poisoning water supply of whole towns by corporations or industries and the efforts to be kept in secret, exposing to health hazards thousands of residents.

You can hear A Campfire song in youtube

“After the Gold Rush” by Neil Young, Album: After the gold rush (1970)

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights
In armor coming,
Saying something about a queen.
There were peasants singing and
Drummers drumming
And the archer split the tree.
There was a fanfare blowing
To the sun
That was floating on the breeze.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.
Look at Mother Nature on the run
In the nineteen seventies.

I was lying in a burned out basement
With the full moon in my eyes.
I was hoping for replacement
When the sun burst thru the sky.
There was a band playing in my head
And I felt like getting high.
I was thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.
Thinking about what a
Friend had said
I was hoping it was a lie.

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver
Space ships flying
In the yellow haze of the sun,
There were children crying
And colors flying
All around the chosen ones.
All in a dream, all in a dream
The loading had begun.
They were flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home in the sun.
Flying Mother Nature's
Silver seed to a new home.

A song that has three verses/parts telling something different in a different history time (past-present-future) and has puzzled many funs about theit meaning, especially in the first verse

but we think that all three visions have something common. The first verse is a medieval vision of knights and queens, and an archer splits a tree. Then we come to present in 70s (or in every next decade Young has sung this song and changed the year). We think that he wants to say that man has been hostile to Mother Nature, during the ages, but only nowadays has thwe technological power to eliminate Her.

Nearly all agree that the second verse is about a battlefield and the last about escaping from the destroyed earth by pollution and war to other planets.

You can read some efforts of song interpretation here

You can hear this song in youtube

"Save the Planet" by Jim Colyer (2005)

We're floating on a grain of sand in the vastness of space
If future generations are going to inherit this place
We've got to Save The Planet
Do something while there's still time
Save The Planet
This earth is yours and mine

The tropical rainforest is disappearing more everyday
We'll never replace it, we'd better not burn it away
Save The Planet
The wonders of nature are free
Save The Planet
Have you ever planted a tree?

If the skies are blue
And the oceans too
Isn't this a better home for me and you?
If the air is clean
And the land is green
Wouldn't you like to be part of this lovely scene?

solo

I'm thinking of the animals that once roamed the African plain
Their numbers have dwindled, pretty soon none will remain
Save The Planet
Do something while there's still time
Save The Planet
This earth is yours and mine
Save The Planet
The wonders of nature are free
Save The Planet
Have you ever planted a tree?

Save The Planet
Save The Planet
Save The Planet
Save The Planet

A song by an independent artist about the environmental destruction, the loss of rainforests, the extinction of animal species, the concern about future generations' natural inheritance.

You can hear directly this song in artist's site

Yoy can visit Jim Colyer's site for more information about him and listening to more songs performed by him

"Goodbye to a river" by Don Henley, album: Inside job (2000)

“The rains have come early”, they say “We're all gonna wash away”
Well, that's all right with me
If heaven's torrent can wash clean the arrogance that lies unseen
In the damage done since we have gone where we ought not to be
Goodbye to a river, goodbye to a river; so long

Lakes and levees, dams and locks, they put that river in a box
It was running wild and men must have control
We live our lives in starts and fits; we lose our wonder bit by bit
We condescend and in the end we lose our very souls
Goodbye to a river, goodbye to a river, so long

The dirty water washes down poisoning the common ground
Taking sins of farm and town and bearing them away
The captains of industry and their tools on the hill
They're killing everything divine
What will I tell this child of mine?

I make a church out of words as the years dull my senses
And I try to hold on to the world that I knew
I struggle to cross generational fences
And the beauty that still remains; I can touch it through you

Goodbye to a river, goodbye to a river, so long
Goodbye to a river, goodbye to a river, so long
Goodbye to a river, goodbye to a river, roll on

A song/lament about how people treat natural landscapes, in this case a river, by changing its way, polluting its water, bulding dams etc. Probably the artist (ex-Eagles member and environmentalist) expresses personal feelings about the destruction of a river in his homeland. We read in wikipedia about his environmental activities:

In 1990, Henley founded the Walden Woods Project to help protect Walden Woods from development. The Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods was started in 1998 to provide for research and education regarding Henry David Thoreau.

Henley co-founded the non-profit Caddo Lake Institute in 1993 to underwrite ecological education and research. As part of the Caddo Lake Coalition, CLI helps protect the Texas wetland where Henley spent much of his childhood.

You can hear this song in youtube

"Pass it down" by Alabama, album: pass it down (1990)

We live in the land of plenty
But many things aren't plenty anymore
Like the water from our sink
They say's not safe to drink
You gotta go and buy it at the store
Now we're told there's a hole in the ozone
Look what's washing on the beach
And Lord, I believe, from the heavens to the seas
We're bringing Mother Nature to her knees

So let's leave some blue up above us
Let's leave some green on the ground
It's only ours to borrow, let's save some for tomorrow
Leave it and pass it on down

Well there's a change taking place way on the mountains
Acid rain is falling on the leaves
And down in Brazil, the fires are burning still
How we gonna breathe without them trees

So let's leave some blue up above us
Let's leave some green on the ground
It's only ours to borrow, let's save some for tomorrow
Leave it and pass it on down

There's a place where I live called the Canyon
Where Daddy taught me to swim
And that water, it's so pure
And I'm gonna make sure
Daddy's grandkids can swim there like him

Now we all oughta feel just a little bit guilty
When we look into the eyes of our kids
'Cause brothers it's a fact, if we take and don't put back
They'll have to pay for all we did

So let's leave some blue up above us
Let's leave some green on the ground
It's only ours to borrow, let's save some for tomorrow
Leave it and pass it on down

A beautiful song that calls us to promote a more environmental freiandly way of life and to create a healthier and crear nature as it was in past times.

You can hear this song in youtube

"Piggies" The Beatles Album: White Album (1968)

Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt?
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse,
Always having dirt
To play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts?
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt,
Always have clean shirts
To play around in.

In their sties, with all their backing,
They don't care what goes on around.
In their eyes, there's something lacking;
What they need's a damn good whacking!

Everywhere there's lots of piggies,
Living piggy lives.
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives,
Clutching forks and knives
To eat their bacon.

A metaphor about human greed, consumerism and littering, no matter the social class they belong. Of course higher classes control these lower motives, but noone is innocent about the planet bad condition.

We read in wikipedia about this song:

It was written by George Harrison as social commentary on class and corporate greed.

There was an additional verse written for the song in 1968 but omitted during the actual recording. It involved the "piggies" playing "piggy pranks" in order to achieve its rhyming couplet of "piggy banks." Harrison reinstated this verse in all live performances of the song in the 1990s. A version can be heard on his double album Live in Japan.

Yeah, everywhere there's lots of piggies
Playing piggy pranks
And you can see them on their trotters
Down at the piggy banks
Paying piggy thanks
To thee pig brother

The original lyrics read "to cut their pork chops" (as heard on the Anthology 3 album). Lennon created the tape loop for the pig noises that were sampled for this song.

Though Harrison intended the song as social commentary, it was often misinterpreted as an anti-police anthem, due to the commonly used term "pig" which is used as slang for policeman.

Charles Manson interpreted many of the songs from The White Album to justify his murders, and took the phrase "what they need's a damn good whacking" to mean that he should attack the police.During the murders of Sharon Tate, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, Gary Hinman and others, knives and forks were used to stab them because these utensils were mentioned in the song.The words 'political piggy', 'pig' and 'death to pigs' were written with the victims' blood on the walls.

You can hear this song in youtube

"Sun Rising" by Laurence Wright (2004)

Since time began man has fought through fear and for greed
And when at war he’s also killed mother natures seed
As the bombs explode the earth is scarred by this awful fight
And all can see the victors will be the victims of this terrible blight

Sun Rising, shining down on earth
Sun Rising, what is life worth?
Sun Rising, helping us to grow
Perhaps until we die we just won’t know.

And when at peace man has ravaged the forests and the seas
He’s taken all the fishes and he’s timbered all the trees
He’s filled the air with the stench of smog in his rush to succeed
And then he’s dumped his waste and left the earth - he’s left the earth to bleed

And man is remorseless as he marches to his fate
He must soon see the harm he’s done before it is to late
How can there be any doubt that some good must be done
If we are to prevent the setting of our rising sun

Sun Rising, (shining down on earth)
Sun Rising (what is life worth?)
Sun setting is it now to late?
Perhaps .(spoken)

A beautiful song from a British independent artist about war and environmental destruction. He writes about this song:

An environmental song reflecting on how mankind continues to abuse mother earth

You can hear this song among others in Laurence Wright's site

Visit his personal site for more information

Album: "Help Yourself" by Julian Lennon (1991)

We are a rock revolving
Around a golden sun
We are a billion children
Rolled into one
So when I hear about
The hole in the sky
Salt-water wells in my eyes

We climb the highest mountain
We'll make the desert bloom
We're so ingenious
We can walk on the moon
But when I hear of how
The forests have died
Salt-water wells in my eyes

I have lived for love
But now that's not enough
For the world I love is dying
(And now I'm crying)
And time is not a friend
(No friend of mine)
As friends we're out of time
[ Find more Lyrics at www.mp3lyrics.org/1ojd ]
And it's slowly passing by..yyy...yyy...yyy
Right before our eyes

We light the deepest ocean
Send photographs of Mars
We're so enchanted by
How clever we are
Why should one baby
Feel so hungry she cries
Salt-water wells in my eyes

I have lived for love
But now that's not enough
For the world I love is dying
(And now I'm crying)
And time is not a friend
(No friend of mine)
As friends we're out of time
And it's slowly passing by..yyy...yyy...yyy
Right before our eyes

We are a rock revolving
Around a golden sun
We are a billion children
Rolled into one
What will I think of me
The day that I die
Saltwater wells in my eyes
Saltwater wells in my eyes

Surely John Lennon's son has taken many ispirations from his father legend. A beautiful song/lament about the realization of environmental destruction and social injustice despite the so called technological progress.


Keep the people working

When they sell the final weapon, we can all watch it blow
Keep the people working, working
Keep the people working, working
Keep the people working, working
Gotta keep the people working

In the bed of iron they cast the final weapon
Just to keep the people working, got to keep the people working

From the mines of Anatolia to the isle of Mandalay
Along the coast of sullen Africa, they're queuing up to pay
No cause, I don't discriminate, I sell to those who buy
There never was an innocent who didn't want to die
And with demand upon the increase what could keep the cost down
If I keep the people fighting, I can really go to town
No surprise, the cash you borrow, we can close the deal tomorrow
Just Swiss francs or dollars won't cause me any borrow, boy

In a bed of iron they cast the final weapon
Just to keep the people working, got to keep the people working
In a bed of iron they cast the final weapon
Just to keep the people working, got to keep the people working

Everybody itching for someone to serve the task
I'll arm the politician for the coup, the crew, the cast,
I have a score of different faces, I can look like a lord
Seen in high places, flying on the Concorde

Well you can marvel at precision, you can dial a telephone
Call up color vision from the safety of your home
You can mount the great offensive from a button by the chair
If you arm the right system, you can ionize the air

In a bed of iron, they cast the final weapon
Just to keep the people working, got to keep the people working
In a bed or iron they cast the final weapon
Just to keep the people working, got to keep the people working
Like the wind across the frontier or the breaking light of day
I push across the mountains, all around the Bay of Biscay

Freeze in North America, boil in Pakistan
All along the amazon, from the fire to the frying pan

Whether air, sea or battle ground, desert sand or snow
When they sell the final weapon we can all watch it blow

Another song from this album that deals with the destructive weapons people construct and sell all over the world to produce havoc in humans and environment. Usually we don't blame people who work in such indyustries, work is considered as something sacred, so the system can be cool by keeping people working in eny post it likes without asking questions.


You can hear "Saltwater" in youtube