Wildfire Season

My hometown’s a few short years

From burning down to the ground

So I drive for up an ice cream cone

from the soft serve joint before it’s all gone

I’ve been having a hard time this week

The smoke is so thick and the news is so bleak

and the richest in the history of man

Keep talking about space like it’s the promise land

While records break and waters rise

And we’re hunted by the hands of time

Cause

Wildfire seasons here again

Each year it’s harder to pretend that

We’ve been doing all we can

Each year it’s harder to pretend

When I was a child I learned the west was won

Not stolen from the rightful ones

And we mined it dry and broke the land

Portioned it off into postage stamps

It’s never been more clear

What as leaders we lack

And its way past time

To give some land back

Cause

Wildfire seasons here again

Each year it’s harder to pretend

We’ve been doing all we can

Each year we’re harder to defend

I’m just barely 23

Still got my life in front of me

In a few years I’ll be 29

And I am fucking terrified

Im not immune to positivity

But it’s dangerously close to complacency

And you’ll never miss your water till your well runs dry

And you’ve seen the ash falling from the sky

Cause

Wildfire seasons here again

Each year it’s harder to pretend

That we’ve been doing all we can

Each year we’re harder to defend

Wildfire seasons here again

Each year it’s harder to pretend

That we’ve been doing all we can

Each year we’re harder to defend

Each year its harder to pretend

Its just a season