[Verse 1] The earth is warming, seas are rising high A future stolen from tomorrow's sky But is this loss the same as what we've known When cultures fade and economies are thrown Into the void of progress left behind Or does climate strike a different kind [Chorus] Can we grieve what's never been Mourn the days we'll never see Future loss cuts deep within What's the difference, help me breathe Climate change or culture's end Time itself we must transcend [Verse 2] Anna Tsing speaks of damaged ground Where life persists though hope seems to have drowned She calls them arts of living in the ruins New forms of time when old worlds are eschewing The linear path from past to bright tomorrow Trading certainty for adaptive sorrow [Chorus] Can we grieve what's never been Mourn the days we'll never see Future loss cuts deep within What's the difference, help me breathe Climate change or culture's end Time itself we must transcend [Bridge] Anticipatory grief flows like a river For children's children we may not deliver The future's not a promise carved in stone But something we collectively own Through damaged landscapes, new temporalities Emerge from loss and find new realities [Verse 3] The coal plant closes, the forest burns away Economic futures crumble day by day But planetary loss runs deeper still It questions time and tests our human will To imagine beyond the great unraveling New stories worth the telling and the traveling [Chorus] Can we grieve what's never been Mourn the days we'll never see Future loss cuts deep within What's the difference, help me breathe Climate change or culture's end Time itself we must transcend [Outro] In ruins we learn to live again Not mourning what has been But building from the loss within New futures can begin Time spirals, breaks, and bends On damaged earth, new story pends
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