This Ball's On Fire - (Australia burning New Year 2019-2020) by Climate Songs

These lyrics were written just before New Year 2019, with the catastrophic Austrailian fires. The song is dedicated to the people of Australia and to all those who fight climate change including School Strike for Climate Australia.
. . . The tune used is Bob Dylan's "This Wheel's on Fire" recorded in 1967 but released first on his album "The Basement Tapes" 1975. More songs on global warming are found at www.climatesongs.com.
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. . . . Lyrics:
If your brain did serve you well
you would listen to the child
who says you steal her future
and leave the warming running wild
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Would temperature rise, would we melt the ice
would we have a climate crisis
would hurricanes cry, would farmlands dry
if our brains knew the how and why?
. . . This ball's on fire
. . . The walls are coming down
. . . In the ashes of the world we knew
. . . the truth is but a clown
If our brains did serve us well
would we need to ask ourselves,
which catastrophes are natural
and when to ring the warming bells?
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When the cards are called in the climate game
and likeliness ducks the blame
which of the homes and lives that are lost
are entered as a climate cost?
. . . This ball's on fire
. . . Firemen going down
. . . In the web of slick deniers
. . . the truth is but a clown
If our brains came to suffice
we would start to mobilize
as if it were, a world war three
to end this idiocy
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We would break free from the legacy
of shame and guilt and greed
To guard the world for the ones to come
our brains will need to run
. . . This ball's on fire
. . . I hear a young girl's voice
. . . Among liars and deniers
. . . the truth is still a choice