Lungs of the World

Smoking is banned in public places God designed us to breathe fresh air Evolution says the strongest will win The circle of life with forests, we share. But we know better than omnipresent design We can tax all those stepping out of line The tax will put right all that is bad And make governments rich, but not care, it is sad. Man cannot live without the fresh air The planet will die without some real care We rape and we gouge the rainforest for gain The lungs of the world, the forests in rain Each hectare gone, a species extinct The rich will get richer our fresh air can stink Man cannot live without the fresh air The planet and we will die without care. The forests breathe in our carbon dioxide A waste product from breathing from life the world wide Our forests through photosynthesis Convert it to oxygen, so we can live. A child born in a world without any air Will die straight away, there’s no one to care. Stop the rape and the pillage of a the world we once knew Let the climate re-grow itself can renew Not taxes for man to make governments rich Put back the forest our climate enrich. There is no birth, no death, no rich, and no poor As the lungs of our world die, we are no more. © Mandy Tams 23/11/2014