Captain Beefheart – Blabber ‘n’ Smoke – brilliant environment lyrics from a Rock poet.

Captain Beefheart (AKA Don Van Vliet) was a brilliant and highly original poet before going on to become a idiosyncratic artist.

This was one of his poems from the early 1970s. It still holds as much weight today as it did then. All we humans do is blabber and smoke. We allow the world and wild-life to be destroyed around us.

The blabber and smoke lyrics work on many levels – dope – industry – governments – activists.

My praise goes out to the demonstrators who march, protest and actively oppose the destruction of the worlds.

But I cannot help thinking that the pollution is the symptom. The real disease is overpopulation. Unless we solve that quickly the planet is doomed.

I outline the problems and solutions in my book Anthropocene Apocalypse:

Blabber ‘n Smoke

All you ever do is blabber ‘n smoke
There’s ah big pain in your window
‘N all your waters turn t’ rope
It gonna hang you all
Dangle you all
Dang you all
If you don’t hurry there will be no hope
Why don’t you quit actin’ like ah dope
All you ever do is blabber ‘n smoke
It don’t matter where you got your start
Which side of your head you wear your heart
Clean up the air
‘N treat the animals fair
I can’t help but think you treat love like ah joke
Time’s runnin’ out
‘N all you ever do is blabber ‘n smoke
Blabber ‘n smoke
Blabber ‘n smoke

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