Kit Kelen #1410 - be woke

1410

be woke

song to sing while packing the car

when you might not see your home again

yes let’s be woke

wonderful word

the right one

for these times

have you noticed

the alarm is ringing?

how drowsily

we must dream on

dinosaurs did

and we do

it started out

with just a few chimes

now someone’s singing out –

have you seen the wind?

can you smell the smoke

can you feel the fire?

keep digging up

and shipping off

keep dollars rolling in

build the dry

and stoke the fire

it’s lovely to be sleeping

to have a good lie in

or do you think you’re better woke?

a different kind of blue this sky!

you’ll be kept dreaming by the smoke

chimes louder and longer

and who wouldn’t hear?

ringing and ringing

like a phone, like a friend

and whose big paw

comes crashing down

to kill the clock again?

later there’ll be flood as well

but first we face these flames of hell

it’s daylight in between the cracks

says time for us to wake

and those of us already up

ask ‘what else will it take?’

oh give me a home

where the dinosaurs roam

and rule the roost

and rake it in

keep digging in the dark

all this smoke will keep us dim

‘oh don’t politicise my fire

my flood, my famine, war’

they like to keep us sleeping

it’s what dinosaurs are for

a pretty simple choice by now

and what’s more sacred than this cow?

you’ll be kept sleeping by the smoke

old wars make the new ones easy

we’re good at what we do

which is to dig until we choke

started out

with just a few chimes

‘oh don’t politicise my fire

my flood, my famine, war’

and whose big paw

comes crashing down

to kill the clock again?

or do you think you’re better woke?

yes, let’s be

it’s a lovely word –

the right one

for these times