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SMALL BLUE WORLD

from Longshore Drift (Album) by Pat Orchard

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staring through dust covered leaves
watching men cut down the tree
take a forest and raise a plain
move on camp do it all again

the natives say what kind of people are these
kill the very things that help us breath
you know its not those workers to blame
they dont take profit from all that pain
its a small blue world

an old skipper stands alone at the bow
an oil skinned figure wiping salt from his brow
for thirty-years hes been fishing these seas
now the only thing he catches is submarines

he says one day I'm going to have to stop
i'll beach this vessle we both will rot
it might be cheap to use the sea as a drain
but only if you're making profit from this pain
its a small blue world

and little creatures stare from a cage
numbered are their skins so numbered are their days
each little one in a torture room
just dying to try your new perfume

i've looked around but I haven't found yet
any rabbits wearing make-up or dogs smoking cigarettes
how come they're suffering again
I guess there's profit in all their pain


we watch our walls on a TV screen
the short civil dirty and clean
did you ever think one day you may be killed
by the very same weapons your country builds

who puts the guns in a mad mans hand
who spoils for oil and divides up the lands
whose building up their armies again
cos there's lots of profit in tomorrows pain

its a small blue world

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from Longshore Drift (Album), released June 3, 2018

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Pat Orchard England, UK

Newborn. Africa. Child. Rebelled.
Exmouth. School. Fool. Expelled.

Homeless. Drifter. Dole. Broke.
Guitar. Busker. Dreamer. Hope.

Support. Headline. MTV.
Touted. Guest list. VIP.

No Deal - Big Deal. Life's a Song.
My Voice. My Choice. Moving On.

Goodbye Smoke. Westward Bound.
Devon. Heaven. Ancient Ground.

Builder. Home. Catherine. Wife.
Fern. Dylan. Father. Life ... more

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