See, I′m not one of these people, who's worried about everything

Country′s full of them now

People walking around all day longEvery minute of the day, worried about everything

Worried about the air, worried about the water, worried about the soil

Worried about insecticides, pesticides, food additives, carcinogens

Worried about radon gas, asbestos

Saving endangered species

Let me tell you about you about endangered species, all right?

Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans

To control nature

It's arrogant meddling

It's what got us in trouble in the first place

Doesn′t anybody understand that?

Interfering with nature

We′re so self-important

So self-important

Everybody's going to save something now

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails

And the greatest arrogance of all, save the planet?

What? The planet is doing great

Been here four and a half billion years

Do you ever think about the arithmetic?

Planet has been here four and a half billion years

We′ve been here, what? 100,000, maybe 200,000?

And we've only been engaged in heavy industry

For a little over 200 years, 200 years versus four and a half billion

And we have the conceit to think that somehow, we′re a threat?

That somehow, we're gonna put in jeopardy this beautiful

Little blue green ball, it′s just a floating around the sun

The planet has been through a lot worse than us

Been through all kinds of things worse than us

Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics,

Continental drift, solar flares, sunspots, magnetic storms,

The magnetic reversal of the poles

Hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment

By comets, and asteroids, and meteors, worldwide floods,

Tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion,

Cosmic rays, recurring ice ages

And we think some plastic bags

And some aluminum cans are going to make a difference?

The planet

The planet

The planet isn't going anywhere

We are

We are

The planet isn't going anywhere

We-We are

We are

It′s arrogant meddling

It′s what got us in trouble in the first place

We're so self-important

So self-important

Everybody′s going to save something

Planet isn't going anywhere

We are

We are

And we won′t leave much of a trace either

Thank God for that

Maybe a little styrofoam, maybe, little styrofoam

Planet will be here we'll be long gone, just another failed mutation,

Just another closed-end biological mistake

An evolutionary cul-de-sac, the planet will shake us off

Like a bad case of fleas

A surface nuisance

You want to know how the planet′s doing?

Ask those people at Pompeii who are frozen into position

From volcanic ash

"How the planets doing?"

Want to know if the planet is all right?

Ask those people in Mexico City, Or Armenia

Or hundred other places buried

Under thousands of tons of earthquake rubble

If they feel like a threat to the planet this week

The planet will be here for a long, long, long time after we're gone

And it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself,

Because that's what it does

It′s a self-correcting system

The air and the water will recover

The earth will be renewed

And if it′s true, that plastic is not degradable,

Well the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm

The earth plus plastic

The earth doesn't share our prejudice towards plastic

Plastic came out of the earth;

The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children

Could be the only reason the earth allowed us

To be spawned from it in the first place

It wanted plastic for itself

Didn′t know how to make it

Needed us

Could be the answer

To our age-old philosophical question – Why are we here?

Plastic – Assholes

Plastic – Assholes

Plastic – Assholes

The planet isn't going anywhere

We are

We are

The planet isn′t going anywhere

We-We are

We are

It's arrogant meddling

It′s what got us in trouble in the first place

We're so self-important

So self-important

Everybody's going to save something

Planet isn′t going anywhere

We are

We are

If it wasn′t for love my lady

The moments that we share

Laughter and tears and the love that we made

Will all slip away