HAPPY EARTH OVERSHOOT DAY
Released July 28, 2022
Liner Notes
All instruments and vocals by Niels Højgaard Sørensen
Finger bell and mastering by Rasmus Glassau Clausen
The Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
“I have become quite hopeless in regards to our collective ability to do something about the climate catastrophe that has been looming my entire lifetime.
I have no hope that the song will change much on a greater, political level (where things need to change) but I have to vent this frustration somehow – and singing protest songs is the only meaningful way I know. Maybe it can give others who share that feeling a little peace of mind, knowing they are not alone. And if nothing else, we’ll all have a song to sing when the world ends.”
– Niels // Stöj Snak
Happy Earth Overshoot Day
The end’s drawing nearer, all bleak irrefutable evidence
The lands turning hostile, we count down as species die out and the skies gather rain
And we’re all to blame, it’s our lifestyle’s inevitable consequence
Happy Earth Overshoot Day
Solutions don’t win as many elections as promises
Our leaders keep talking of change as the tensions increase and progress decays
This heat makes us colder, our hearts sink with hope as the waters rise
Happy Earth Overshoot Day!
The future’s predictable, the science’s been here for a century
We all know the price for our excess, but can’t stop ourselves and the – whole planet will pay
Just keep rocking hard in a world on the brink of catastrophe
Happy Earth Overshoot Day!
Happy Earth Overshoot Day!
Hide Away
Far away, the city’s roaring
The machine we’ve built to kill ourselves is playing out song
Any day the oil is running dry
Just in time for a war over water
In the greater scheme of things we might be powerless to change anything
But this places compels us to move ourselves
And I’m sick of the fucking sadness
And it can’t get to us here
In our hide away
Satire’s dead, now long live politics
In this match the best act takes the belt when leaving the ring
So place your bets, we know the show is rigged
It’d be kind of fun if it weren’t so depressing
Hope and denial, it’s a thin line
But we can walk it if we carry each other
And see where it leads to follow our feet
If we’re caught in this fucking nightmare
we might as well dream
In our hide away
Everybody knows the price of everything
Everybody knows the price but the value of nothing
They won’t get to us here
In our hide away