This month you are asked to submit an entry based on this:
Some type of contact with extraterrestrials has been made. The aliens have sent music. Let us hear it. I almost dropped out of this one then I recalled the guy down the pub.
Some time back I met this really old guy and have had a few drinks with him over the years. It turned out, in conversation, that he is actually from another world. Many centuries back his planet was destroyed and a group of them travelled to, and settled, here. They have been assimilated into our culture and observed human behaviour. When I told him of this theme he was disappointed as his kind do not do music or arts but he wanted to send a message. I advised him to emulate a notable figure from the world of popular music. This is what he did.
The Warning.
I’ve been here for seventeen centuries, travelled cross
Nine galaxies and all of their worlds, just to
Find a place to end my days since the land of my
Kind has collided with some other moon.
My people were practical logical beings no
Music or art or poetical thoughts so I
Copied this style from your popular culture to
Send you this warning before its too late.
You’re killing yourselves you’re choking the world
The rich are too greedy, the poor too needy
The millionaire with his jet and his yacht
The third world dictator has his people shot
You have facebook and twitter and internet fraud
Yet the starving must kneel down and pray to their lord.
When I landed on this world, a-way back in history
The nations were forming their cultural rules but as
Time has progressed you have always been fighting for
Power and riches and the treasure chest.
Do you know what you’re doing to your sacred world
Where the powerful few are calling the shots
And the millions of starving just lay down and die
When emissions are burning through the atmosphere
You have facebook and twitter and internet fraud
Yet the starving must kneel down and pray to their lord.
I’ve stood back and watched your corruption destroy you
Unscrupulous bankers and paedophiles join with
Gunmen and terrorists waging their wars while those
Millions of children don’t ever see school
You’re killing yourselves you’re choking the world
The rich are too greedy, the poor too needy
The millionaire with his jet and his yacht
The third world dictator had his people shot
You have facebook and twitter and internet fraud
Yet the starving must kneel down and pray to their lord.Adam Black S-5 acoustic guitar,
Hohner Marine Band harmonica,
ReaFir, ReaEq, ReaDelay, VOCEQ-PRO-C, Classic Chorus, BackStage EQ One, CamelPhat, GlaceVerb, Overtone GEQ, Q796, REAPER v4.22.
James
