Dan Bull - A Good World Spoiled lyrics

Hey there, folks, how do you do?
Now you're tuned in, welcome
To Radio Nostalgia, smooth
The place to go for mellow music while
You play a round or two
Down on that abandoned planet
Surrounded by astounding views
Once a crowded coop
Cluttered up by countless humans
Clucking 'round without a clue that
They're nothing without a use
This whole world's now a putting
Ground for the powerful few
Isn't it wonderful what uncontrolled
Wealth can do?
And to think they called us selfish too
Without the supermarket who the hell would
The fisherman sell fish to?
The ice caps just lie flat
So what if we melt a few?
Why drink from the stream when you
Can buy some Mountain Dew?
Look, it sounds counterintuitive
But nothing's out of bounds if you
Refuse to count the counterview
How can you confound a counterrevolution
Without a suit to countersue?
We just monopolise until they drop
Like flies out of view

Charity begins at home and home
Is very far away
We made a playground that's unsafe
For any child to play a scenic view
Now that the green is blue and skies are grey
The things I've seen it do
The things I've seen it do I'm not
Even sure I'd like to say

Corporations are a force of nature, evergreen
By which I mean
We're forever chasing green indefinitely
None could keep our green in regulation
Therein lies the rub blood money
We vie for blood like a hungry tiger would
You once took pride in
Providing for your livelihood
Now you'd die to buy the Cybertruck
Call that survivorhood?
See what I'm driving at? Could it
Even be more nicely put?
Is that a flying divot or a
Slice of life you're lining up?
Not lying, look
Provided that you'll financially
Thrive enough
You might just be invited to the
Finest club this side of Earth
This is no hybrid club
We don't mix iron and wood
Just high society types residing up
In towers of ivory, lush

Charity begins at home and home
Is very far away
We made a playground that's unsafe
For any child to play a scenic view
Now that the green is blue and skies are grey
The things I've seen it do
The things I've seen it do I'm not
Even sure I'd like to say

Wait, do you hear thunder? If I
Was a few years younger
I'd be hunkered down with you
Sandwiched in a nuclear bunker
Two vacuum-proof suited humans
Hum soothing tunes
Under a moonlit-roofed tundra
Cool as a couple of cucumbers
No social security number
Just a bank account
And a frank account of how the
Bank got out of hand
Then dealt a crushing blow the kind of
Hit that might not get the airplay
Behind the scenes
We sign the deeds why would we
Do it in the fair way?
When corpulent corporations become more
Powerful than nations tell me
How is it at all a
Cause for praise or celebration?
Make mistakes, not war
Unless the war is profit making
Then make more and more
They'll always be repopulating
That isn't debt consolidating
We're just under par to be honest
Saving dollars over planets has brung us far
Tsunami waves and hurricanes are
Fun seen from afar
While we wave at Mother Nature
"Look, we've finally done it, ma"
And what is nature but a loose impediment?
Waiting for a corporation to drive a
Wedge straight through the sediment
Never knew what we were doing but we'd
Do it for the hell of it
Improvise like Nick Henderson noodling
On the theremin
Prioritise accruing revenue above everything
Boosting human endeavour to a new
Level it's never been
New trends, loose ends
No true friends or fellowship
We never do anything unless
Directly to our benefit

Charity begins at home and home
Is very far away
We made a playground that's unsafe
For any child to play a scenic view
Now that the green is blue and skies are grey
The things I've seen it do
The things I've seen it do I'm not
Even sure I'd like to say