Went on a weekend holiday Flew from Sydney to Byron bay the Flights are so cheap there's no bloody way that I was getting on a train

the Villa was great, air-con all day Lights all night and the stereo playin' went out on a jet ski I'd hired trashed the reef as I rode for miles it's better than surfing, cause you don't get tired and the petrol's cheap in Byron

on the flight back, up so high the whole east coast looked so dry started to think 'bout what those greenies we sayin' 'bout Global Warming, and Climate Change

Stepped out of the Airport, the city was a mess we'd had another hailstorm, the worst one yet and the whole south coast was a blazing wreck an' it was snowing out at Ularu

Read it in the Herald, the hottest year yet and the government's bringing back the nuclear threat didn't work in the 70s, and nothing's changed much, but the government wants to make a quick buck I started wondering about that flight to Byron

Got home late, but I jumped on the 'net had to find out what might happen next read some science sites, said we had to do something cyclones are getting stronger and glaciers are melting with the sea up higher, wonder what it'll be like at Byron?

Read some greenie websites, full of good solutions we have to stop burning coal and reduce our consumption but the corporations don't like it cause the can't make a profit and the pollies are all living from the corporation's pocket cause they get free holidays in Byron

found out my computers using 400 watts coming from coal power, it emits quite a lot so I've switched to renewables and I'm using it less all of my consumption has been re-assesed, wish I'd never flown to Byron

should have gone surfing, probably would have cost less but if we all thought that, we wouldn't be in this mess if I go back to Byron I'll ride my bike cruise all day and camp at night but I could just go surfing at Coogee.


Chords, so far:

|D--A--|A--EmG-|


music, rhyming patterns, and rhythm inspired by (none-to-closely) Redgum's "I've Been to Bali Too" and "Long Run"

if I could play reggae, it would probably be more like Bali

comments on the lyrics, and suggestions for chords/strumming patterns most welcome.