This Corrosion

The rain came down and floods came up.

It’s certainly raining in biblical volumes today, this planet seems to be fighting back in a big way these days. Earthquakes, tidal waves, the lot! Do you think it’s pissed at us at all. Or perhaps it’s just science and stuff happening all at once, coinciding with our heightened awareness of what we do to our environment.

But then again, if we are part of the environment, surely what we are doing is natural too. If a beaver builds a damn we call it nature, even if the flow downstream suffers. When we do it, it’s an abomination.

When a plague of locusts sweep entire crops clean of their harvest, they are a pest, but still nature. When we burn down forests to plant those crops we are evil.

Most species in this world do all they can to survive and prosper, with no consideration to those further down the food chain. Are we any different? Are we just the latest dinosaurs, waiting for extinction, before a better thing comes along?

Are we as all powerful as we like to think we are, or just a blip on the scope of earth’s history? Soon to be forgotten as this planet gets on with its work of supporting whatever comes along.

Who knows, but I do think we are given one life, and we should damn well use it.

Believe what you want, love what you want, do what you want, just don’t waste it!

Stepping down from the soap box for a moment, song for the day just happens to suit a mood, since I am in work on my day off, I’m cold, fed up and thinking what I could be doing instead.

Andrew Eldritch has done some very cool songs in his time, and this is the finest. ‘This Corrosion’, from the Sisters of Mercy Greatest Hits (A Slight Case of Over Bombing).

Kick off with the angelic choral voices (Biblical again) then slam dunk into a course square wave synth bass line…..’ Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me’

On daze, like this
In times like these
I feel an animal deep inside
Heel to haunch on bended knees

Brilliant LOUD !