Piano/vocal
Alicia Cory - piano, vocals
Ruston Slager - keyboard strings
Persevering friend - Catherine Bennett
Pro Tools assistance - Hal Kopeikin
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Wild Things
© 2009 Alicia Cory
Prelude
Every single breath we take
Every drop of rain that turns into a lake
Every tree and lowly rattlesnake
Make it seem so easy
Make it seem so easy.
The symmetry of day and night
The magic of a rainbow reflecting in the light
Nature somehow gets it right
And makes it seem so easy
So effortless and easy.
Verse
Why has nature’s simple plan
Proved so hard to sustain
Before the march of man
There were herds of bison and wild horses stampeding the plains.
Bridge
We’re standing on a precipice
Will we have the sense to back away?
And contemplate
Before it’s too late
Just where we went astray.
The condor sits transfixed
And all alone in her barren nest of sticks
The harp seal pup is bludgeoned in an arctic bay.
Refrain
And can we really claim this is progress?
Remember when we could drink right out of a stream
Our wilderness is fast disappearing
Along with all the animals we should esteem
Along with all the animals we should esteem.
Bridge
We’re standing on a precipice
Will we have the sense to back away?
And contemplate
Before it’s too late
Just where we went astray.
The poacher severs the rhino’s horn
Then sneaks away from its lifeless form
The polar bear dies drowning in an iceless sea.
Refrain
And can we really claim this is progress?
Remember when we could drink right out of a stream
Our wilderness is fast disappearing
Along with all the animals we should esteem
Along with all the animals we should esteem.
The lions and the tigers and the bears
Sleepin’ out in the open air
The tunas and dolphins and the whales
Being hunted, netted, and impaled
The passenger pigeons pleading from their graves saying
There are still a lot of wild things left we can save
There are still a lot of wild things left we can save
There’s still a lot of wildlife left we can save.
Prelude return
Once it was so easy
Once it was so easy
Once it was so easy
Easy, once it was
So easy, once it was
So easy.
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