Get The Message Lyrics - Singles - Naked Earth

Hey, Mr Politician, what's going on in your mind 

The people are crying out for help and you're just wasting our time 

Oh -- a mouthful of rhetoric 

All that lip just makes us sick 

Unbutton your collar, loosen your tie 

Get it together, stop feeding us lies 

Get the message, a message from the human race 

Get the message, our planet is a sacred place 

Get the message, it's simple and it's oh so true 

Guide us through these troubled times cos we're depending on you 

Chlorofluorocarbons -- you know them as CFCs 

Fifteen years ago you ignored the warning pleas 

"There'll never be a hole in the atmosphere" 

That's what you said, now the hole has spread 

And the people are starting to fear 

Get the message... 

Elected by the people -- what do you desire 

Are you an elected official or just for hire 

Elected by the people -- the people are aware 

Our quality of life needs repair 

Too many people sleeping in the streets 

Too many children with not enough to eat 

All that money wasted building a war machine 

Has made the global economy the worst it's ever been, so... 

Get the message... 

Elected by the people -- what do you desire 

Are you an elected official or just for hire 

Elected by the people -- the people are aware 

Our quality of life needs repair 

Hey, Mr Politician, what's going on in your mind 

The people are crying out for help and you're just wasting our time 

Oh -- a mouthful of rhetoric 

All that lip just makes us sick 

Unbutton your collar, loosen your tie 

Get it together or we're all gonna die 

Get the message... 

(Russ Ives; 1994 Naked Earth Productions)