Kilimanjaro

What had been for 11,000 years
Ancient ice and snow
Is melting like 11,000 tears
Down the face of Kilimanjaro
Where time itself is frozen
Suspended in the air
Now the water flows
On Kilimanjaro
Damaging the essence
Of our atmosphere
Threatens our existence
Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Where the ocean
Meets the rivers and the bays
Watch their waters rise
Reclaiming what were drylands yesterday
Right before our eyes
From Tuvalu to Tonga
To the shores of New Orleans
Venice to Jamaica
Kilimanjaro
From the South Pacific Ocean
To the Gulf of Mexico
Flooding from the tears of
Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
What will be in 11,000 years?
Will we be at all?
Will humans have realized our fears
Or will we heed this call?
We have burned our image
On the open sky
Squandering our privilege
Kilimanjaro
Glacial ice is falling
Corporations lie
Covering and stalling
Kilimanjaro
But we have seen you crying
We can finally hear
What we’ve been denying
Kilimanjaro
We can stop the yearning
We can stop the tears
We are finally learning
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro
Oh Kilimanjaro