Frog's Lament
Channel: Neil Dale Songs
Date: 2016-06-27

In this song I describe changes that I have seen personally in the environment - in my own backyard. They creep up on me, and I can let them pass...but that's not a good idea. Perhaps your backyard is different - but maybe you see things, and almost let them pass too.

Frog's Lament

Frog’s Lament

Verse 1

 

Do you remember there were butterflies?

And you just couldn’t catch ‘em even if you tried –

But there’s something wrong, yeah it’s getting clear –

I’ve not seen a dozen since this time last year.

 

REFRAIN

And there’s a frog in the water, and he’s feeling fine,

And it keeps getting hotter, he don’t mind;

And that frog in the water looks like you and me –

‘Cause we just don’t t remember how it used to be.

 

Verse 2

Do you remember on a summer night,

How the bats flew in circles in the fading light –

Then the fireflies would light a thousand sparks;

But the bats are gone, and the fields a dark.

REFRAIN

Verse 3

Do you remember when the lightning flashed,

And the rain poured buckets, and the thunder crashed?

And you’d hide in bed ‘til your mom would say:

“It’ll fade like a dream in the light of day.”

But these thnderstorms are getting mean –

They can pack a punch like you’ve never seen:

They will break your trees, they will flood your yard,

And hail like rocks will destroy your car.

REFRAIN

Verse 4

I looked out my window – then I looked real hard:

There was a Native hunter crossing my back yard –

And the woods were filled with birds and deer.

He flashed a high sign, then he disappeared.

REFRAIN:

…(last line) ‘Cause we’ve GOT to remember,

How it used to be.