Green World

This poem was inspired by the Tears for Fears song Mad World. I jokingly switched out the phrase "happy birthday" in the song for "happy earth day," and then thought that perhaps it could be an environmental song, with the chorus "green world" instead of "mad world." 

The poem is from the perspective of a disillusioned environmentalist who is discovering that perhaps things aren't really as bad as we've been led to believe.


Green World

Based on the Tears for Fears song “Mad World”

All around me I see propaganda

– Just recycle and the earth will be saved.

Their schemes are grand and getting grander;

‘Buy our products, Armageddon will be delayed.’

And the fears are being stoked and fanned;

‘Ozone layer has a great big hole.’

They date pollution to the dawn of man

Population overflow.

And I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take

There is no global warming, we have made a big mistake

I find it kind of funny; I find it kind of sad

They’re running round in circles; we already have a

Green world, green world

Grown men waiting for the day they feel good –

Happy Earth Day, Happy Earth Day

Try to keep Mother Earth in a good mood;

So pick up garbage, go pick up garbage.

Go to school and you’ll learn evolution

They’ll tell you we were monkeys, we were monkeys

That we’re both the problem and the solution

So use weird light bulbs, ban all plastic bags.

And I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take

There is no global warming, we have made a big mistake

I find it kind of funny; I find it kind of sad

They’re running round in circles; we already have a

Green world, green world.