The Water Tale : a rap song

How do we get the word out to a larger audience about regenerative water? I remember many years ago hearing the Dalai Llama telling a popular band, that they have a much wider audience to spread the word about meditation than he did. Music is a vehicle of diffusion.

I’ve been intrigued about getting the tale of water into song. A year and a bit ago, I played around singing some water songs with my friend Rachel.

This year, my friend Teisho, who had been hearing me talk about recording some water songs for awhile, took the initiative, and said lets record a rap song about water together. So here it is :)

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You can also find our water rap song on the Climate Water Project channel on Spotify and Apple podcasts.

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Here are the lyrics:

water that's why we arrived

water that's why we survived

water that's why we all thrive

water that's why we're alive

Chorus -

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong tha time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale

you might think: what do they you want from me,

we need to understand how geomorphology

links biology and climatology

cause it's a cycle, break the chronology

breaks the small water cycle, man it's archetypal

almost genocidal, so listen my disciple

when it rains inland, the water hits the ground

is drunk by plants, but doesn't stay around

through a process called evapotranspiration,

the wind brings this inland circulation

to the next little green patch of vegetation,

then precipitation, then wetland filtration

then soil rehydration, biomass formation

microbe nation, biome salvation,

dead plants on the ground start gestation

start accumulation, dark soil cultivation

that's carbon captivation, that's plant activation

wildfire modulation, this needs preservation,

stop the degradation, start regeneration

this planet needs savin, so get your education

Chorus -

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong the time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong the time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale

plants regulate the earth's heat, in a photosynthetic beat

turning water from liquid to non-visible vapor, it's neat

balancing the energy balance sheet, you already know, nature never sleeps

thermodynamic cycle drives the heat shift drumbeat

water gushin, water hushing, water flushin, rushin rushing (el agua fluyendo)

water gushin, water hushing, water flushin, rushin rushing

water gushin, water hushing, water flushin, rushin rushing (el agua fluyendo)

water gushin, water hushing, water flushin, rushin rushing

Chorus -

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong tha time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong tha time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale

the more forest we steal, the less water we got

the more life we kill, the less rain will drop

the more surface we seal, the more seeping is stopped

this is gettin' real, it's about to feel hot

like this the continental water amount is decreasing

like this the torrential slaugther allowed is unceasing

like this the monumental carbon count we are releasing

keeps on increasing, so keep on this weaving

of forests, of wind, of the water ways,

bioregional ecosystem power plays

from tha adria to cascadia, from sahel to sahara

from Great Lakes to the great plains, we'll all do it together

Chorus -

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong tha time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale

so let's dig a swale, guide the water trail

slow it like a snail, prolong tha time scale

charging aquifers, sink it in no fail

this is the water tale, this is the water tale