The new Counting Backwards song, Ballad of Yakamia is now out. Yakamia contains the last patch of uncleared bushland in North Albany (Yakamia Forest), West Australia, which is under threat from housing development and road construction. The Council chambers are also located in Yakamia and it is there where decisions about the forest are made.
(The new words for this old song are by Quark and Neutrino.)
There's not enough housing, dear Liza, dear Liza,
There's not enough housing dear Liza, there's not!
Then build it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry
Then build it, dear Henry, dear Henry, then build it!
But how will I build it, dear Liza, dear Liza
But how will I build it with not enough tradesmen?
Here is an Arabic song about overpopulation (lyrics and translation provided). On the same page, by the same artist, just above the original Arab lyrics for "Overpopulated," is an hilarious rendition of Pharrell Williams's song, "Happy." Aala Wardi, Iranian-born, Saudi-raised, and currently said to be living in Riyadh, provides completely new forms of Arab music. He studied music in Jordan and is a sound engineer as well as a performer and creator. He performs, produces, and presents all this music, much of which is very funny, as well as brilliant. He sings in gobsmackingly accentless Arabic, English, French, Urdu, Hindi and gibberish (his word-choice), and has performed with many different international artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx4ZYlVgaZU
(Candobetter used Music match and Reverso for these translations)
Le monde est plein de gens
The world is full of people
العالم مليان ناس
Les enfants ne sont pas la solution
Children are not the answer (Or, Don't bring chldren into the world)
لا تجيبوا لاتجيبوا اولاد
La planète s'effondre
The world is collapsing
الكوكب بلش ينهار
Arrêter la production humaine
Stop human production
وقفوا إنتاج الإنسان
Le monde est plein de gens
The world is full of people
العالم مليان ناس
Les enfants ne sont pas la solution
Children are not the answer (Or, Don't bring children into the world)
لا تجيبوا لاتجيبوا اولاد
La planète s'effondre
The world is collapsing
الكوكب بلش ينهار
Arrêter la production humaine
Stop human production
وقفوا إنتاج الإنسان
air empoisonné
poisonous air
هوانا مسموم
Et la planète fond
And the planet is melting
والكوكب عم بيذوب
Les animaux meurent alors qu'on ne nous le demande pas
The animals are dying and we have no say in it
حيوانات بيموتوا واحنا ولا سائلين
Occupé à s'entretuer
Busy killing each other
مشغولين نقتل بعض
Et le cancer n'a pas de solution
And cancer is not the answer
والسرطان ماله حل
Après tout cela, vous voulez toujours prendre du retard !
With all this, you still want to delay!
وبعد كل هذا لسه بدك تخلف!
Le monde est plein de gens
The world is full of people
العالم مليان ناس
Ne répondez pas, ne répondez pas les enfants
Don't have children
لا تجيبوا لاتجيبوا اولاد
La planète s'effondre
The world is collapsing
الكوكب بلش ينهار
Arrêter la production humaine
Stop human production
وقفوا إنتاج الإنسان
air empoisonné
poisonous air
هوانا مسموم
Et la planète fond
And the planet is melting
والكوكب عم بيذوب
Les animaux meurent alors qu'on ne nous le demande pas
The animals are dying and we have no say in it
حيوانات بيموتوا واحنا ولا سائلين
Occupé à s'entretuer
Busy killing each other
مشغولين نقتل بعض
Et le cancer n'a pas de solution
And cancer is not a solution
والسرطان ماله حل
Après tout cela, vous voulez toujours prendre du retard !
With all this, you still want to delay!
وبعد كل هذا لسه بدك تخلف!
Source : Musixmatch plus modification by Sheila Newman using various online translator tools for the Arabic
Paroliers : Alaa Wardi
العالم مليان ناس
لا تجيبوا لاتجيبوا اولاد
الكوكب بلش ينهار
وقفوا إنتاج الإنسان
العالم مليان ناس
لا تجيبوا لاتجيبوا اولاد
الكوكب بلش ينهار
وقفوا إنتاج الإنسان
هوانا مسموم
والكوكب عم بيذوب
حيوانات بيموتوا واحنا ولا سائلين
مشغولين نقتل بعض
والسرطان ماله حل
وبعد كل هذا لسه بدك تخلف!
العالم مليان ناس
لا تجيبوا لاتجيبوا اولاد
الكوكب بلش ينهار
وقفوا إنتاج الإنسان
هوانا مسموم
والكوكب عم بيذوب
حيوانات بيموتوا واحنا ولا سائلين
مشغولين نقتل بعض
والسرطان ماله حل
وبعد كل هذا لسه بدك تخلف!
Source : Musixmatch
Paroliers : Alaa Wardi
This is a beautiful original song, beautifully performed, with well conceived lyrics describing the importance of Assange, his suffering, and encouraging people to work to have him released.
LYRICS:
like a movie
flickering in blue and grey
like a movie
you can’t take your eyes away
1.
here's a man in the nose of a beast
a magic camera on his eye
they're not men he sees before him
just pixels floating by
his eyes narrow on the target
his finger is the boss
seven men go to the dust they came from
underneath his cross
like a movie
2.
and here's a man on an aeroplane
his eyes are warm, his eyes are closed
weary from too much seeing,
from 10 years on this road
they took his son, they took his freedom
took away his space to think
they took his walls and moved them closer
they pushed him to the brink
like a movie
flickering in blue and grey
like a movie
betrayal's only one frame away
3.
and here's a hawk, in front of an eagle
three colours tattooed on it's chest
his eyes are flint, his heart is granite
cos uncle knows what's best
there’s talk of a man who’s said too much
talk of a man who’s sealed his fate
talk of a bounty for the one who brings
his head upon a plate
like a movie
4.
and now here's a man in a tiny cell
his tired face is gaunt and pale
he walks ten thousand steps each day
the santiago trail
his hair is white, the spider’s eyes were black
the mighty web was a thing of awe
he went in deep, he couldn’t come back
but he showed us what he saw
like a movie
flickering in blue and grey
like a movie
dignity will hold no sway
and when the dawn breaks, and the mist clears
you can watch the final scene, if you dare
one man in front of an army, all alone
and his man, what’s he going to do now?
and what about you, what are you going to do now?
are you going to sit there, and keep on watching?
cos if we all got up we could stop this movie
don't you think it's time we stopped this movie?
like a movie
flickering in blue and grey
like a movie
we can’t let it end this way
How can Australians unite against the corporate and government forces that are failing to avert ecological catastrophe on Australia? We are an increasingly dispersed and disorganised colonial people, without a talking stick of our own.
Beans on Toast wrote the song and allowed this mash-up for his song. Nina Paley did the animation. It was posted in observance of World Population Day, July 11. This song and video offer the simple truth. The world is overpopulated, and we human beings are still adding over a million a week to the planet, contributing to - if not creating - every crisis the world faces. It's a good song but it doesn't mention immigration, which is how Australia's population is growing faster than any other country in the OECD's.
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