Coral Reef Exploration
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If only I had known you
In the time of coral reefs
Before we lost the permafrost
When there were bears up there
Were bears up there

We could have met
Fallen in love
Could have got married and had kids
If we wanted It could have been simple for us too
Simple for us
Do you think we would have travelled
Could we have managed a mortgage
Sent our kids to local schools
And campaigned to change the rules?
So that we wouldn't pull the ladder up behind us
Like our parents did to us
Could we have been better
Done better?

If we'd loved before the sea swallowed the coasts
Before the wildfires spread
Our heads only full of love
I would have loved you
We would have made our vows
While the island nations drowned
We'd let them go cos we were richer they were poorer
We were better they were worse off
So we watched them sink without a word
Ignored the screams
Ignored the gulf stream slowing down
Ignored the drip of melting ice
The drip drip drip of melting ice

Remember when we still had time
If not to reverse things
Well at least not to cause worse things
And we decided not to
It was easier not to?
Remember when we thought
That it was windmills on hills that spoiled the landscape?
Remember the landscape?
Remember the land?

If only I had known you
In the time of coral reefs
Before we lost the permafrost
When there were bears up there
Were bears up there