Time's Up

Album: Time's Up (1990)
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  • Time's up,the rivers have no life
    Time's up,the world is full of strife
    Time's up,the sky is falling
    Time's up,the Lord is calling

    How you gonna stop the clock
    When the well runs dry
    All the rivers have died
    Moment by moment, day by day
    The world is just slipping away
    Your future won't save your past
    The time is now, it won't last
    The time is nigh
    Time to do-or-die

    Time waits for no one
    If you want to go on
    Leave me something to grow on
    The forests, the trees, the rivers, the seas
    All die of this disease

    Time ain't on your side
    Don't sit idly by
    You've just got to try Writer/s: CALHOUN, GLOVER, REID, SKILLINGS
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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  • Cjsf from The Space Coast"Long before climate change became a hot-button political issue"? I remember, even as a kid, the congressional hearings on climate change in 1988. The scientists and others were clearly saying then that if we made relatively small changes then, we might avoid the worst effects a generation or so down the road, and perhaps emerge with a stronger, more resilient economy. We all know how that played out. For anyone paying attention to politics and socioeconomics at the time (like Living Colour obviuously did) this was a very big issue by 1990. For some time it was overshadowed in popular media by "The Ozone Hole", just as Acid Rain had overshadowed broader climate concerns a decade or so earlier.
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