[Verse 1] The future's not a distant place we're heading to Morton says it's melting now, the ice caps bleeding through Hyperobjects all around us, massive strange and real Climate change and nuclear waste, too big for us to feel [Chorus] When tomorrow disappears into today And the future slips away, slips away We're living in the aftermath of dreams we used to hold The sixth extinction's story being told [Verse 2] Kolbert walks through history's mass extinction events Five times before the world has died, life's massive accidents But number six is different now, we are the asteroid Humanity's the meteor that cannot be avoided [Chorus] When tomorrow disappears into today And the future slips away, slips away We're living in the aftermath of dreams we used to hold The sixth extinction's story being told [Bridge] Haraway says stay with trouble, don't look away Make kin with damaged landscapes where we have to stay No pristine nature left to save, no wilderness apart Just symbiogenesis, a multispecies heart [Verse 3] The temporal loops are closing, past and future meet In toxic zones and melting ice beneath our restless feet We cannot think our way beyond what's already here The loss of future-thinking makes the present crystal clear [Chorus] When tomorrow disappears into today And the future slips away, slips away We're living in the aftermath of dreams we used to hold The sixth extinction's story being told [Outro] No escape velocity from hyperobject time Just learning how to stay alive in capitalism's grime The future dimension crumbles but we're still here to see What staying with the trouble really means for you and me
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