a Plain Green Rapper:

a rap mandate

All we want is the world in a plain green wrapper
and Mr. C., you could be our destiny's mapper
Please listen up Bill, you may not like what we're tellin'
but messin' up our nest is what the good ol' boys are sellin'
While you're eatin' Mcburgers and runnin' your buns off
great forests are fallin' and their topsoil just runs off
keepin' jobs for the loggers, the miners, and the ranchers
an' profits for the lawyers, the owners, and the bankers
That's 'cause eco-nomics, is the science that is ruling
we've been treating the ecologists like they were only fooling
And, who are the champs in these games of crap and clutter?
they're the makers and consumers of the guns and the butter
The top dog, biggest polluter on the scene
is the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines
That's right, the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines

They are the worst poison in the natural world's demise
but agri-business beats them out by the factor of size
Now they want biotech -- gene manipulation
and atomic weapons' waste for food irradiation
They ruined all the soil that they poisoned, plowed, and plundered
out across the lands where the buffalo thundered

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DuPont's CFCs took the ozone, here's a shocker
they're sellin' you and me -- our ultra-violet blocker
Now NASA's gonna' fix it up but that's a pack'a lies
'cause when the Space Shuttle flies, the ozone dies
when the Space Shuttle flies, the ozone dies

So we'll go to forest summits and we'll do negotiations
but the business, as usual, is public relations
They wont fix it in their boardrooms, or out at their resorts
it makes for bad financial statements and quarterly reports
It doesn't matter at their summer home, or out there on their yacht
they never thought to give a damn with all the crap they got
So listen to us Bill 'cause we're talkin' to you man
you swore up and down that we'd change what we can
Are you just one more of those empty promise givers?
don't try to hand to us what's in Arkansas' rivers
Repairing the environment, of course will not be easy
with what we inherit from the greedy and the sleazy
They've got chemicals, armaments, oil, medicine, and cash
they'll own our dying planet and we will own their trash
and we will own their trash

and we will own their trash

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If we deny, while species die, we too will soon be goin'
we'd best be wise, don't compromise, earth, air, and water flowin'
While Mother Earth's defenders put their bodies on the line
we drive to work, and pay our tax, and hope we're doin' fine
Hear us Bill, the people's will, our votes are how you got there
but if one in four was for Al Gore, without him you'd be not there
Now we see your strategy, with Al you played your E-card
if it's all lies, and Nature dies, for Chelsea that could be hard
So, will you back the billionaires, or will you make 'em pay?
will you stand up on your hind legs, will you seize the day?
Slow poisoned death all 'round the world, of course it isn't funny
how sad the day, we had to say, we did it all for money
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