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Mother Nature Will Have Her Revenge On Old Fatty [Maj​.​-​Gen. Karl O​’​Callaghan mix]

from Song For Absent Friends by Benny Mayhem

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An early mix from the album sessions, this is 'Mother Nature...' remixed and remastered, but pure and simple with no drums and minimal editing.

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Mother Nature Will Have Her Revenge On Old Fatty
[Maj.-Gen. Karl O’Callaghan mix]
(Ben Watson)

Well, if that's what we get for focussing on The Monster
You'll excuse me while I put that Abbott out of my mind
It's not I don't care or I'm not petrified
Re: the country's Great Slide - our moral decline
But Barnett & Howard have proven that people are dumb

Watching TV they get filled with ideas that aren't real
Like the pastors of old laid down fire and brimstone with great zeal
And these Christians believe that their one god is just chock full of love
But he's a vengeful old sod - when it comes to the crunch
They're the ones that'll drown in their flood

And life will go on
Just as it always has before…
And the tides will roll in
Just as they always have before…

So, ga'arn, treat my country the way that she's never deserved
You can rape, you can pillage people and the natural world
In the face of Earth's doom, you can Wittenoom Broome
In the hope that you'll go to some afterlife soon
But you'll get the same hell wealthy Mayans would have faced as they fell…

You'll watch the jungle close in
Just as it always has before…
And the waters will rise
Just as they always have before…

Even if you succeed in replacing the forests with weeds
When the rivers are dead and your ego's been fed
Begging, poisoned, on your knees

When the Earth finally dies with no tears in her eyes
A hollowed-out hide - hey, but at least we tried!
Somewhere far off in space in a temperate place

Comets will rain from the sky…

And life will go on
Just as it always has before…
Oh, and the rains will come down
Just as they always have before…

And you’ll be forgotten, that's for sure.

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from Song For Absent Friends, released July 15, 2016
Produced by Benny Mayhem & Steve Correia.

Tracked by James Pagella at The Fuelled By Cider Studio, Ilton UK; July 2016. Remixed, enhanced, overdubbed and mastered by Steve Correia at Citrus Studios, Canning Vale W.A.; November 2015 - March 2016.

Featuring David Azmo on melodica & badass duellin' jazz bass.

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