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Earth Survey

by Michael Silverstone

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Some unimaginably advanced creature files her report about Earth after a 90-day visit.

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Earth Survey
Words and Music by Michael Silverstone
2013 Mr. Silverstone Music/ASCAP

Since my arrival on your planet
several months ago
I’ve fully enjoyed this opportunity
to survey it
in all its glory

I’ve come to love your sunsets and
the sounds of the rain and your oceans
and your trees
can’t say enough about those trees

Children and young creatures
so simple and so tender hearted
--such care among the elephants and whales and dolphins, and the chimps and people

--your dogs are very nice too—they tune right into what you’re feeling
Your music systems, your sports and your poems are all among the very best I’ve encountered

You know where I’m going next with this, right?
Or maybe you don’t and that’s why you’re like you are.

You have not had a proper training
for the power tools you’ve invented
and you’ve made a mess of it all
an astonishing mess

Too many people
tearing up the earth
releasing poisons
--where there will eventually be
no safe place to put them
--I feel sorry
that you don’t see this yet
or if you do
that those in a situation to do something about it, haven’t even begun

I’m sorry its so hard for you
Wish it would all go well
remember to leave love behind you
when you leave

trees and tools and works of beauty
and lives of kindness
remember to leave love behind you
remember to love

My recommendation is
that we send a mission
to take over your planet
and leave some of you alive
to live with us
the way you should

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released March 10, 2013

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Michael Silverstone Northampton, Massachusetts

Born, in Ohio in the 20th Century. Live in Massachusetts in the 21st. I am a myth made of charged points of energy mostly in empty space, but I do love to write, sing, and record songs.

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