Walk Away Released
I put together the finishing touches on my song, Walk Away. I previously discussed the motivation for writing the song earlier this week. You can check out the song and download it at http://www.myspace.com/markheimonen. For what's it worth, my recording studio consists of a fifteen year old Roland Keyboard, a $30 radio shack mike, my grandfather's old Washburn guitar, and a PC I put together two years ago.
You'd think that somebody who cared enough about a topic to write a song about it would've already learned everything there is to know about. Well, I guess that isn't the case with me. I picked up a great book at the library on Friday - The End of Oil - On the Edge of a Perilous New World, by Paul Roberts. I'm not even through the first chapter yet, but I whole-heartidly recommend this book to everyone. A quick quote from the book, which pretty much sums up the message of my song:
"Critics place much of the blam on a political system corrupted by big energy interests -- companies desperate to protect billions of dollars in existing energy technologies and infrastructure. An equal mesaure of blame, however, must fall on the "average" American consumer, who each year seems to know less, and care less, about how much energy he or she uses, where it comes from, or what its true costs are. Americans, it seems, suffer profoundly from what may soon be known as energy illiteracy: most of us understand so little about our energy economy that we have no idea that it has begun to fall apart." (Roberts, The End Of Oil, p. 15-16)
Lyrics to Walk Away:
They''ll never really tell us what it's all about
They'll sing this song forever n' it's gotta stop right now
They'll never want to let it go
They'll never want to let us know
They don't want to give us a say
We're running out - it's clear as day
The time is short - We'll soon all pay
For leaders who refuse to walk away
They'll sell us fairy tales - It's all gonna be allright
They do their best to quiet us - Are we gonna put up a fight?
Nucelar (nuclear) oil gas and coal
All lead us back the same whole
Are we gonna learn to walk away?
Fighting a war we shouldn't be in
Lying to us - respinnin' the spin
There's no just cause for what they've gone and done
They want to drain our last resource
Our last great hope - Our last recourse
will soon be gone before we've had our say
They'll never want to let it go
They'll never want to let us know
They don't want to give us a say
We're running out - it's clear as day
The time is short - We'll soon all pay
For leaders who refuse to walk away
You'd think that somebody who cared enough about a topic to write a song about it would've already learned everything there is to know about. Well, I guess that isn't the case with me. I picked up a great book at the library on Friday - The End of Oil - On the Edge of a Perilous New World, by Paul Roberts. I'm not even through the first chapter yet, but I whole-heartidly recommend this book to everyone. A quick quote from the book, which pretty much sums up the message of my song:
"Critics place much of the blam on a political system corrupted by big energy interests -- companies desperate to protect billions of dollars in existing energy technologies and infrastructure. An equal mesaure of blame, however, must fall on the "average" American consumer, who each year seems to know less, and care less, about how much energy he or she uses, where it comes from, or what its true costs are. Americans, it seems, suffer profoundly from what may soon be known as energy illiteracy: most of us understand so little about our energy economy that we have no idea that it has begun to fall apart." (Roberts, The End Of Oil, p. 15-16)
Lyrics to Walk Away:
They''ll never really tell us what it's all about
They'll sing this song forever n' it's gotta stop right now
They'll never want to let it go
They'll never want to let us know
They don't want to give us a say
We're running out - it's clear as day
The time is short - We'll soon all pay
For leaders who refuse to walk away
They'll sell us fairy tales - It's all gonna be allright
They do their best to quiet us - Are we gonna put up a fight?
Nucelar (nuclear) oil gas and coal
All lead us back the same whole
Are we gonna learn to walk away?
Fighting a war we shouldn't be in
Lying to us - respinnin' the spin
There's no just cause for what they've gone and done
They want to drain our last resource
Our last great hope - Our last recourse
will soon be gone before we've had our say
They'll never want to let it go
They'll never want to let us know
They don't want to give us a say
We're running out - it's clear as day
The time is short - We'll soon all pay
For leaders who refuse to walk away
posted by markh100 at
2:39 PM
