Tonart: B major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Many people have stopped eating cows,
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pigs, chickens, sheep, eggs and milk for health
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reasons, environmental reasons,
and ethical reasons.
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Yet the existence and fate of fishes
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and animals from the ocean are
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still excluded from this discussion.
It is not because the
numbers slaughtered are too
in the seeming silence and darkness of the sea.
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Yet, we remain oblivious
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to the ruin we inflict.
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In 1988, com mercial fishing landed 98
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million metric tons of fish.
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Deep sea sport fishing in the
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million pounds.
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In 1990, hundreds of species fall victim.
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The numbers and the ecological
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destruction grow each year.
For thousands of years the seas have provided food for humans,
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but they cannot withstand
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human overpopulation, selfishness,
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and technological power.
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The
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U .S. demand for fish has grown by
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one -fourth in the last eight years.
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At its present rate, fishing will soon bleed the
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oceans to death.
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Few people who sit down to a plate of salmon,
swordfish or tuna ever consider how these
animals were caught,
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their suffering or the ecological devastation caused by commercial
fishing techniques.
The harvesting machine sucks fish from
the sea in huge gulps.
It sucks up anything in its path.
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It rips and shreds big
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ger fish into little pieces.
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Silently under the waves, it roars.
Insanely.
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Nets inflict the worst destruction.
Nets entangle everything
they encounter,
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enveloping and killing billions
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of sea creatures.
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Driftnets, 40 miles wide,
furl out across the flowing, silent world
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to kill all they touch.
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Half to two -thirds of the
dead and dying animals
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are tossed back into the sea.
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Lost nets, called ghostnets,
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killing without purpose.
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Sea
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Conservation
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Society estimates that driftnetting
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kill s 30 ,000 dolph corpus,
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50 ,000 northern fur seals, over a million seabirds,
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and an unknown number of dolphins and sea turtles every year.
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Driven by profit, the fishing industry wages war
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on all animals it sees as competitors.
Alice
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Ross and pelicans are shot on sight.
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Orcas are killed by the hundreds
and explosives.
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Thousands of sea lions are
clubbed and shot on the
Pacific coast each
year.
Hundreds of thousands of seals are
slaughtered all over the world.
Over three million sharks
are clubbed and hooked.
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The slow -moving gentle beluga whale
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has been harpooned nearly to
extinction.
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All for the commercial fishing industry.
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Over the last decade scientists have warned that fish
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stocks have been decimated by overfishing
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throughout the world.
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If the killing continues our lifetime will
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witness the desolation of the great world
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The last delusion of an inexhaustible world of infinite
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commodities to be taken and consumed.
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We see the surface of the sea and ignore
the devastation of the hidden world that upholds
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Earth.
We must look into the depths of the waters and
understand the delicate ecosystem, the
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Human beings must safeguard the
seen and unseen together.
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If we follow our same blind path,
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if we fail to see the oceans and all their inhabitants
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as our origin, our element, and part of ourselves,
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we will also soon disappear silently into
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into the ocean of space.
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