Dear Mother from The Tillers by The Tillers

Reckless greed vanishing the green
Can't drink the water from these streams
Pushed to far past the point of no returning
The deed is done now her kingdom is burning

Dear mother, what's been done to you
Don't look as pretty as you used to
Dear mother
Don't seem as happy as you once were

You can walk those city streets till you can hardly breathe
I'll take a stroll in the woods
Won't be long and they've forsaken all the land
Where tall trees once stood

And they'll pave the family farm and tell you that it's for the best
I'll say yeah best for you but tell me what about the rest
Then they'll build a subdivision where gardens used to grow
And take all those precious things that you have ever known

Now that factory steady spewing by the dirty river side
It billows through the day and it rolls on through the night
Across the river road just past the railroad tracks
A cancerous corruption boils to turn our world to black

They're cooking up some stuff man I don't even want to know
Could take out everything alive with just one fatal blow
And they're poisoning the waters their smokestacks fill the air
But no one seems to notice or no one really cares

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