The Water Tale : a rap song

[Semia]

I will get my college students learn it and sing it at the end of the year. Indeed, we need to spread the words. Congratulations for this song. Could you please give me the details of the authors in order to acknowledge them correctly ? Thx and BRAVOO !

[Alpha Lo]

Hi thanks, that would be awesome to have your college students sing it. The rap song is by Teisho and Alpha Lo (me). 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

[Semia]

Thank you very very much for the lyrics, you spared me the time of writing them down.

I will update you about this project in my lecture about water resources.

[Leon S]

Haha, ok rap music is not my sort of thing but this was pretty good, impressive getting the tongue around all the scientific words!

[Regenerative Water Alliance]

thanks, i had to practice some of those words a bit in order to rap them

[Ricardo Amon]

Well done

[Regenerative Water Alliance]

thanks

[John Earl]

Great rap! I cross-posted

[Regenerative Water Alliance]

thanks for cross-posting