The Water Planet Lyrics
The sun is shining, through the haze.
The boat is trawling, through the bay.
The gulls are flying; the net ascends.
Upon the catch, people depend.
You got your baked clams and your sushi.
Yes, seafood on your lips.
Boiled lobster, and your crab legs,
and your fish and chips.
Big boats with their big nets
catch fish out on the loose.
Everywhere, they catch them faster
than fish reproduce.
CHORUS
This is the water planet.
You want oceans? This is it.
Life is living in every sea.
It can end up in you and me.
The Sun is shining, through the haze.
The plankton’s gliding. The krill graze.
Bubbles rising, the whale ascends.
Upon the krill, the whale depends.
The cod are gone on Cape Cod,
and Newfy’s banks are bare.
No King crab left on Kodiak.
We’ve taken what was there.
But we can choose those places
where fish can safely breed.
So our great great grandchildren
can catch the fish they need.
CHORUS
For every pound of shrimp… BYCATCH,
there’s many pounds more… BYCATCH,
of once living things… BYCATCH,
that will swim the sea no more… BYCATCH.
Dolphins every day… BYCATCH;
turtles of the sea… BYCATCH,
they’re just thrown away… BYCATCH,
and we lose diversity… BYCATCH.
The salmon’s jumping to its birth place.
Small fish darting; bluefish chase.
The whale, it breeches.
The dolphin plays.
The shark, it circles the manta ray.
You got your baked clams and your sushi.
Yes, seafood on your lips.
Boiled lobster, and your crab legs,
and your fish and chips.
We must choose those places
where fish can safely breed.
So our great great grandchildren
can catch the fish they need.