The Panacea that now how some do see it
The new and easy source of natural gas
No one charging what they like and threatening to raise
Its locally produced infact
and so worthy of praise
America is out ahead, bore holes everywhere
Marcellus shale, just leaves me pale
With feelings of despair
I am old and weary, the repercussions they
Will not affect me actually, its the children
that will pay
People have been suffering,and some
have lost a lot
Fresh water from the taps, not any more
oh no they've got
Contaminated water, undrinkable alas
Aquifers are being breached
and lakes an pools en masse
Destroyed by fracking chemicals
The water loss immense
Potable not ever
You see it makes no sense
Its very very selfish in a world
where water's scarce
Already we see people grubbiing the mud
no purse
Deep enough to find the water that once
might have been
Flowing from that wondrous ground
From those verdant slopes of green
Some are being forced each day to drink
some nasty stuff
And America is wasting much more than enough
Each drill hole can take 13 million
gallons
Actually from 2 to 13 in effect
Laced with such obnoxious filthy chemicals
Nothing any of us living dare expect
Its sucked up from the shale
and stored in ponds and then
Shipped by tanker into deeper wells
by ignorant men
It gets into the water, it comes back to our land
Radon, radiation and a cocktail most can't stand
But honestly for fear of panicking readers
it is true
Fracking is an evil that is going to hurt you
Bradford County, Pennysylvania see hell on earth Today
Insanity is clearly in the souls of men I'd say
Compounded by those dollar bills
But my God what they do
Is completly screw up environments
yea and your land too
Imagine 40,000 gallons of some toxic stew
That bubbles out of no where
Yes mate all over you
Your land, your house, your garden
the ponds, the rivers too
The reservoirs, it soaks into the earth
this frightening brew
And frever it will stay there it does not
biodegrade
Shale gas leaves its legacy
and it will never fade
And as we waster much energy is fracturing our food
Our children will be forced to watch
The toxins just exude
From them, this is the evil
That we shall leave behind
A few made heaps of money
but the rest of us were blind
We had eyes, but we failed to see
We had souls but destroyed
Everything around us
Which the children can't avoid
For cancers and leukamia
Will be rampant, to every school
Death will march on in there
and take out, one and all.
Don't let the bastards do it
Be man enough to say
Take you fracking chemicals
and just go one your way
Our homelands are so sacred
We'd rather now use less
That let you turn our precious
land into a complete mess.