I haven't felt poetic
It's really quite pathetic
Khei's warm and sunny weather
Makes it easy to forget, y'all
The world's got bigger problems
Than which beach I should lay on
And if my nap's too long, it's clear
The water may rise above my ears
But it's hard to make a difference
When there is such resistance
And I'm just talkin' locally here
Maui isles where I live, dear
I feel just like a sheep being sheared
Our county makes decisions so weird
Did I say sheared?
Cuz I meant fleeced
It's like our elected officials
Are the do-the-wrong-thing police
And they continue to make sure
A&B and MLP are the letters that rule
Over common sense and our
environmental jewels
So we continue to improve our
community
With an outlet mall and high school
in Khei
And I've-thousand houses,
more or less-we'll see
Cuz developers bring the county
to their knees, usually
Here's something I'm ashamed to say
Since being angry ain't the best way
But when your Hummers runnin'
While your spouse is inside shoppin'
I want to get a can of spray enamel
And put "ainokea" on your quarter
panel
And as long as I'm on the subject
What part of "Slower Traffic Keep
Right" don't ya get?
But as you may have noticed
My anger caused me to digress
From these problems so hard to digest
In fact, we could use an intervention
From this climatological reinvention
By the conservatives from another
dimension
Who haven't yet felt the warming
sensation
Or let into their pea brains with
low retention
The science governing our new
situation
So they'll continue catering to big oil
Which, harder to get at, causes huge
turmoil
Carbon and methane totally uncoiled
An atmosphere that's baked and boiled
It just makes me so fracking mad
To see how easily Americans can
be had
What's wrong with big-time
renewables
The rest of the world finds them usable
Charmaine had two conferences to say
That Maui surely would lead the way
The world would beat a path to see
our examples
Cuz we have it all here-sun,
wind and geothermal
But I've not been in a state of grace
Thinking that we've got egg
on our face
Cuz as the rest of the world walks it
We just continue to talk it
So this is as good a place as not to end
Peace and switch off a light, my friends
