Food Waste to Energy
c 2019 T.H. Culhane
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Food WASTE to energy
it SHOULDN'T be a MYSTERY
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it's SOMETHING every boy and girl can DO
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Everyone one has got it,
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If you're living on this planet
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Then you'll always have the icky side of food
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But now we have technology
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To turn waste into energy
so WE can turn our FOOD back into fuel (and fertilzer)
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fat and grease and pot roast, that you can't put in the compost,
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you can turn it all to energy ... it's true!
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you can turn it all to energy ... yes YOU!
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Who me?
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Yep!
CHORUS
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because it's your Planet too
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and it's the best thing we can do
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keep saying it's my Planet 2
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and my food waste is my fuel.
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Come on now: "My planet too
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-- with food waste as my fuel".
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Oh yes its our planet too,
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with food waste as our fuel
VERSE 2
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Food waste to energy
it forms the perfect synergy
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CLOsing circuLAR EconoMIES
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Food waste's really SUNshine
it's a form of solar POWER
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making goods from bads that others see as waste
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But once you know the formula
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and the magic of bacteria
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you know poLLUTIONS merely matter out of PLACE
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From ancient times to Marco Polo
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People knew we can't fly solo,
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Microbes have been there to clean the waste
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turning food waste into energy
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it isn't new to history
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but everyone's been caught in the rat race
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wasting time and wasting food
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wondering what the heck to do
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running helpless as we witness climate change
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But nows the time to get involved
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And here's what you can do to SOLVE it
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Food waste to energy's the simplest thing to Do
CHORUS 2
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Because its' your planet too
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And now you know what you can do
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We can get clean fuel from our food
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And turn the bad stuff into good
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Because it's your planet too
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And you all have wasted food
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It makes a mess of our home planet
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And we don't like the way you ran it
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But with food waste to fuel we can solve this problem, dammit!
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Because its my planet too,
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And I know the best thing we can do
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Is to turn our food waste into energy
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It's real, its not some fantasy
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There's no more time to waste to draw it down
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Draw it down... as Greta Thunberg says:
BRIDGE
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You adults been talking green an awful lot
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But the green you talk's just money or it's snot (snot, get it?)
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You drag your feet but tell kids "don't complain"
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While dooming us to certain climate change
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But we're done with your confusion
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And the time for talking's done
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We've found the best solution
One that's simple, safe and fun
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Turning food waste from pollution into energy, nutrition and new food
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That's what we're gonna do...
CHORUS 3
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Because it's our planet too
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And the SOLUTION's in our food
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Turning our food wastes to energy
It shouldn't be a mystery
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It's something every boy and girl can do
(Food waste to fuel and fertilizer
Food Waste to Fuel and Fertilizer
Food Waste to Fuel and Fertilizer -- Food waste).
VERSE 4
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We're running out of time
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Just like we're running out of rhymes
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And all y'all are doing is DEBATE
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Having meetings at the Hague
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and talks at the UN
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While our KIDS are sick of being told to wait
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You say that they should be the change
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While you all throw your food away
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And all you have to do to make the change
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Is change your FOOD waste into ENergy
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and mitiGATE that CImate change
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And really all the rest can stay the same
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And we don't have to play that dumb blame game
CHORUS
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Because its our planet too
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And best thing we can do
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Is to turn our food waste into fuel
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That's what we're gonna do.
Food waste to fuel and fertilizer
Food waste to fuel and fertilzer
Food to waste to Energy, it's true
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Because its your planet too.
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food waste to energy
we'll all go down in history
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Defenders of the earth and of the truth