A song about climate change:
It’s so lush and so rank here in this English swamp
And sanctuary? Sanctuary is hard to find
Ever since the sky fell foul of delinquent chemistry
And what holds us together began to unbind
And I know why we tore up the trust
The long pig is human but he’s no friend to us.And all that we could ever hope for
Is almost eaten by the long pig now
— Latin Quarter, The Long Pig
A song about the 1939 World’s Fair:
Fifty years after the fair
the picture I have is so clear
underneath the clouds in the air
rose the Trylon and the Perisphere
and that for me was the finest of scenes
that perfect world across the river in QueensBut how beautiful it was - ‘tomorrow’
we’ll never have a day of sorrow
we got through the ‘30’s, but our belts were tight
we conceived of a future with no hope in sight
we’ve got decades ahead of us to get it right
— Aimee Mann, Fifty Years After the Fair