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What For?

from Endless Bummer by Smokeshow

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In 1976 they found a hole in the sky
And everyone cut back on their chlorofluorocarbons
So that we could make it out of here alive
New coolant they put in the fridges so we could have
Four-day-old Thai food and frozen French pizza
Turned out to be burning the planet up bad (Hey now)
So the sky's okay now, yeah but it's all we have
And what for
Plus who's the sky for anymore

In 1996 I was afraid of the ocean floor
So wild so untamed, all that upside-down terrain
And the corners there that we have not explored
Now thirty years later I'm stuck on the notion
If land doesn't work out there's always the ocean
Yeah I wonder if we could build houses down there
With cute bubble helmets that fill up with air
But I'm scared
That it won't last in our care

<alien mermaid sounds>

In 2076 we'll buy a home in the sky
We'll get alien rescue dogs and plant potato gardens
And in space we'll hear our grandbabies cry
Hmm, hmm
I want to want to dream of futures with you
Oh but it's hard to do
It takes such an unburdened imagination
To dream about futures in this broken nation
Under all the rockets of gods and their friends
Looking down on us musing "So that's how it ends"
And what for
What was it all for
What for, what for
What for, what for

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from Endless Bummer, released November 7, 2023

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