Shades Magazine April Issue | Page 26

THE 5 BEST SONGS ABOUT SAVING THE EARTH

The Prophet’s Song - Queen

Beautiful day - U2

Earth Song - Michael Jackson

Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

Is This the World We Created?‎ - Queen

I see no day, I heard him say

So grey is the face of every

mortal

Oh oh people of the earth

Listen to the warning

The prophet he said

For soon the cold of night will fall

Summoned by your own hand

Queen guitarist Brian May

wrote this after he had a dream

about the Great Flood. Many

religions and cultures have

stories of floods, including theGreat Flood of The Bible that led to Noah's Ark.

A working title was ''People Of The Earth''; which is a phrase that came to Brian May in his dream and made it into the lyric.

See the world in green and blue

See the canyons broken by cloud

See the tuna fleets clearing the

sea out

See the oil fields at first light and

See the bird with a leaf in her

mouth

After the flood all the colors

came out

The lyrics were inspired by

Bono's experience with Jubilee

2000, a benefit urging politicians

to drop the Third World Debt.

Bono describes the song as about

"a man who has lost everything,

but finds joy in what he still

has.”.

What about sunrise? What

about rain?

What about killing fields? Is

there a time?

Did you ever stop to notice All

the blood we’ve shed before?

Did you ever stop to notice This

crying Earth, these weeping

shores?

Earth Song by Michael Jackson is

a genuine plea of questioning 'what and why' things are the

way they are.

The video centered on the

destruction and rebirth of Earth.

I’m waking up to ash and dust.

I’m waking up, I feel it in my bones

Enough to make my systems blow

This is it, the apocalypse Whoa

All systems go, sun hasn’t died

Deep in my bones, straight from inside

Welcome to the new age, to the new age

Whoa, whoa, radioactive, radioactive

The Las Vegas Rock band Imagine Dragons open their debut album, Night Visions, with this track on the subject of embracing change. Dan Reynolds sings about the realization that the world is becoming different and breaking free by doing something new.

Is this the world we created?‎

We made it on our own

Is this the world we devastated

right to the bone?‎

If there's a God in the sky looking down

What can he think of what we've done

To the world that He created?

At face value, this pre-Live Aid song is about third-world poverty and the huge imbalances between rich and poor. This song follows "Hammer To Fall," which is about a nuclear apocalypse and ends with a loud bang. The second song laments "the world we devastated, right to the bone."

Written by Erica Rosso and Marzia Cisonni