Peter Garrett - Innocence Parts 1 & 2 (Official Video)

Peter Garrett – Innocence Parts 1 & 2 (Official Video)

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Written by Peter Garrett. Published by Sony Music Australia.
Produced and mixed by Tony Buchen & Peter Garrett, assisted by Martin Rotsey.
Engineered by Tony Buchen, assisted by Caleb Hill.
Recorded on Gadigal Land: Hercules Street Studios, Surry Hills.
Additional recording, and mixing W Ave 34 Studios, Camperdown.
Mastering by Steve Smart, Studios 301.
Peter Garrett: vocals
Martin Rotsey: guitars
Heather Shannon: keyboards
Evan Mannell: drums
Rowan Lane: bass
May Garrett: backing vocals
Grace Garrett: backing vocals
Tony Buchen: additional synths
Freya Schack-Arnott: cello
Ollie Thorpe: pedal steel guitar

Lyrics:
Innocence is my friend, she rarely lets me down
When the weights come on she’s got the woes of the world at bay
Empire builders - crowding out the skyline
Short sellers - talking up the end times
Tech bankers - feeding on the deep river of our DNA

Now anybody else in the world might tell you
Anybody else in the world might say
Anybody else in the world might tell you, its too late

Hey hey hey

Rich listers - cheat death in the deep freeze
Tongue twisters - smashing out the birds and bees
High flyers - pay big bucks to get a selfie from outer space
There’s always someone with a new toy
Someone selling fake joy
Tax dodgers smash the rough sleepers on their way

In case you’re wondering we need a new solution, a moral transformation, a peaceful resolution
And if you’re wondering if ecocide is normal, only if your appetite persuades your rational mind
And if you’re wondering this is not a movie, we’re not in the chorus line we’re just pretending we’re divine

Now anybody else in the world might tell you, its too late
But it’s never too late, not too late, never too late

From the wattle yellow hemisphere.

Learned in the law am I where wilful negligence is punished and foreknowledge of consequence an unambiguous signpost to guilt - no excuses.
So I imagine a court of climate criminals crowded with PMs, sheiks & presidents, Woodside corporate titans, all well-groomed, best jargon. Delivering profits from frying the planet, and roasting us alive, puncturing the thin blue protection line.

And here they come: the enablers, the acolytes, the political laggards, the allegiance shifting, grifting, still grinning journos in the cheer squad bringing up the rear. All guilty as charged of the cruellest hoax of now. Whereupon the people, sorely relying on God’s grace - that’s the bank of nature actually - are crucified on the altar of financial theocracy.

Ha! They say we can have it all, but let’s face it the only constant is inequality and the sober fact that infinite growth lust collides with sustainability and reality. Here we go.
Looking out across the promenade at Manly: The lycra chants of split-level personalities screaming down from the stainless edifices above Fairy Bower on a once bushy slope can’t quite drown out the lullaby sounds of oars in the water slapping, as the Manly boat crew, volunteers all… big surf, no fear.

Weary of heart and mind, not I. It’s the innocent’s fate, I’m willing to oblige. And repeat again and again, it’s never too late.

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