Descent Into The Maelstrom lyrics

[Words & Music: Ted Kirkpatrick]



[This song is dedicated to the animals we share this planet with and the people who work to protect them]



[Solo: Aaron]



Is it greed or is it ignorance or is it both?

As the bulldozer trashes a thousand years growth

Clear cutting with a clear conscience



A burning desire to burn

If a tree falls and no one`s around

The wildlife still hear it crashing down



[Chorus]

You were gone before we even knew you

And there`s no way to ever get you back



Gorilla seven days old

Ripped from his mothers dead arms

Her hand now an ashtray souvenir for a tourist`s charms



[Chorus]

Will I join the ranks of the photo gallery

It may be the only way left to see me



Thousand acres a day

Burning it all away

Extinction - the price to pay



A ton of rhino, a pound of horn

The Javan one cursed - the wheels of greed are born

Medicinal myth, smuggled to Hong-Kong

Ancient superstition - reality gone wrong



[Chorus]

I joined the ranks of the photo gallery

Its the only way left to ever see me

You were gone before we even knew you

And there`s no way to ever get you back



The greatest land animal killed for a foot of ivory

Will your children live to see one

Or witness decimation by tyranny



Passenger pigeons blackened the sky

Never a chance we would say goodbye

Oh how I wish I could see one fly



[Chorus]

You were gone before we even knew you

And there`s no way to ever get you back



American symbol of freedom and power

Only for target practice by the hour

Buffalo sat on the brink of no more



[Chorus]

Will I join the ranks of the photo gallery?

It may be the only way left to ever see me
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