From the recording Even My White Shirt Is Black
In digital stores on 14 January 2022
Written, performed and produced by Paul J Rogers
Mastered by Paul Blakey - Gold Coast Australia
Photography by Tracie Tee Live Events
Lyrics
Even My White Shirt Is Black © Paul J Rogers 2020
I walk and I talk to the left
Well, that's true
When the line is a straight line
I'm far from the queue
Sing songs of Earth Justice
Since I was a child
Didn't think I'd be singing them
All of my life
Even my white shirt is black
Took a course on the world
And there's no turning back
A headline is a deadline
When nothing is sure
A coal mine is a shotgun
If it kills you real slow
It's real slow (slow, slow, slow)
It’s real slow (slow, slow, slow)
Save women and children
Don't throw me an oar
If a boat needs to save me
I won't reach the shore
Nature is hungry
To heal what we've done
But to learn from her sting
Shows there's more pain to come
Even my white shirt is black
Took a course on the world
And there's no turning back
A headline is a deadline
When nothing is sure
A coal mine is a shotgun
If it kills you real slow
It's real slow (slow, slow, slow)
It's real slow (slow, slow, slow)
Even my white shirt, and black coal
Even my white shirt, and brown coal
Even my white shirt, stop coal
Even my white shirt
As stewards of Earth
We must steer a new course
These energy barons
Rape Earth to the core
We've gotten much better
At accounting these days
But the zeros I'm counting
Is zero has changed
Save us now
Go save us now
From greed just save us now
Save us now
Go save us now
From greed just save us now