The good people of the petroleum industry have decided to treat the earth like the government treats the elderly and the sick: expendable.
Chorus:
What the frack are they thinking
What the frack have they been drinking
Our water quality sinking
What the frackety frack!?
I don’t need their gasssss
They can kiss my
They want to shoot us up with chemicals
I don’t mean to be polemical
But shooting chemicals into rocks
Is that really thinking outside the box?
I know an easier way to get gas
Eat beans and kiss my asterisk
Footnote one:
It would be more fun
To get your power from the sun, son
And we really have sinned by ignoring the wind
And the waves
And they’re frackin’ in Texas
To get some of that frackin’ oil
They’re determined to hex us
It’s enough to bring your blood to a boil
What the frack, we gotta foil
This frackin freak show
Cut the power to the fossil fuel clique ya know
Cho:
What the frack are they thinking
What the frack have they been drinking
Our water quality sinking
What the frackety frack!?
I don’t need their gasssss
They can kiss my
Farmers forced to fracking
Aced out by agribiz
When you’ve lost your job, you gotta get by
Offered cash to trash your land and water
What are you gonna try
Six figures, that’s good roustabout pay
How could they harbor any doubt you say
But the job will last six months or less
Then you’re back where you started, but you’re under duress
They leave you in the lurch
So when you go to church
Speak up, speak out, don’t let ‘em run you out
Poor people always been expendable
When the water’s poison it’s not mendable
Cho:
What the frack are they thinking
What the frack have they been drinking
Our water quality sinking
What the frackety frack!?
I don’t need their gasssss
They can kiss my…
Footnote two: Natural gas is mainly methane
Don’t sound so friendly, more like arsenic than champagne
Your water will be so bad, polluted, sorry and sad
Your tapwater catches fire? It’s a new stove, you should be glad
We need energy independence
From Exxon, Chevron & Shell,
They need to move their offices
On down to the county jail
We’ve got shale shock,
It’s a bridge fuel……to nowhere
Cho:
What the frack are they thinking
What the frack have they been drinking
Our water quality sinking
What the frackety frack!?
I don’t need their gasssss
They can kiss my…