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What's That I See?

from The First Shall Be The Last by Matt Rivers

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Written by Matt Rivers, in the Summer of 2022, Smithville TN. This is a song about climate change.

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What’s that I see?
I see the river rising
I think we waited too long
And now the currents too strong
I’m crying…

How can it be?
It isn’t so surprising
I see you breaking your back
To fatten someone else’s stack
And he’s lying

Cut down the trees
More plastic in the oceans
Pipelines through the sacred lands
From Standing Rock to Bethlehem
They’re trying

Gone straight to Hell
They’re pushing through the bottom
Chasing after cold hard cash
Crawling straight up Lucifer’s ass
While we’re dying

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from The First Shall Be The Last, released May 1, 2023

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Matt Rivers

Matt Rivers is a modern relic & torchbearer for the old ways of song craft & performance; following in the footsteps of such artists as: Woody Guthrie, Blind Willie McTell, Harry McClintock, & countless nameless & forgotten forebears of the folk tradition. ... more

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