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Well look at that…One of the interesting things about rooting through all my old shit for this blog is finding the occasional truffle. Here’s one that I like.

Not because of any lyrical prowess, mind you. So much of what I was doing 15 years ago was just Seussian slackery that it’s hard to pick anything from that time as a favorite.

But I like this one because, independent of any environmental consciousness — and trust me, I didn’t have one — I seem to have nicely articulated the global warming panic we’re living under these days.

Not like it took a genius to figure out in ‘94 that the world was in a bad way. It’s just funny to see that even yours truly noticed.

P.S. I can state with reasonable certainty that the reference to Mother was cribbed from Soundgarden’s “Hands All Over.”

The trees are gone
And the ground is broken
The kids are mad
‘Cause their dogs are chokin’
The stacks are up
And they’re smokin’ smog
Can’t see for lookin’ in this fog

The sidewalk’s cracked
And it’s hurting my feet
The swimming pools are drying up
With all this goofy heat
The sky is sick and it’s falling to bits
Too many chemicals in our armpits

I guess we should have listened
When they said
Take care of Mother or 
She’ll end up dead
How were we to know?
We thought they were crazy
I guess we could have seen the signs
If things hadn’t been so hazy