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Goodbye Catbird (The Environmentalist's Love Song)

from Mistakes Have Been Made by John Ludi

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Goodbye Catbird

I can't let go of you,
can't admit that it is through
it all seemed so strong and true.
(“Everything is change.”)
Saw you leave and shed my tears,
thought about our happy years
life seemed so bright and clear.
(“Everything is change, everything must fade
into that good night...tears in the rain.”)

You would sing to let the day begin,
I'd draw the curtains, let the sunlight in
meet your voice with a grateful grin...
and smile and smile again
So charming in your sweetly rasping way,
filling my world with a sense of play
comical bird greeting the day...
oh, please don't go away.

Spring brings you less and less,
something dark has caused distress
I think it's called “progress”.
I don't think it's nature's way,
this blight and this decay:
Earth has become our prey.

All this greed, rapacious need.
The way we feed, the world we bleed.
Words we don't heed sew poisoned seeds.
Now watch us beg and plead.
The holes we drill, coffers we fill,
species we kill, lives that we still
The lack of will persists until
It's time to pay the bill.

Use it up for profit's sake,
bend it all until it breaks
Just take and take and take and take...
then take a little more
Feed on it until it's just a shell,
take this Eden and create a hell
treat nature's bounty like an endless well:
leave hope outside the door.

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from Mistakes Have Been Made, released March 22, 2020
John Ludi wrote, sang, played, engineered and produced this song

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John Ludi Madison, Wisconsin

John Ludi is a musician/singer-songwriter with a wide array of influences and lyrical interests who was "Indie" before the term even existed. Working outside of the music industry by choice has given Ludi the ability to release songs of a level of lyrical depth that are anathema to the minds of the "suits". Ludi lives off-grid in a yurt in the woods of WI and will "fight the power" til he dies. ... more

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