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“Big Climb” is a fast-paced banger about how humanity’s technological innovations will be our downfall as anthropogenic climate change makes the Earth unsustainable to human life. But it’s not all doom and gloom: Jonathan Higgs told Big Issue North that changing attitudes and young environmentalists...
[Verse 1]
Big climb, big fall
I saw my picture in the crystal ball
Big climb, big fall
The pink piggies with their hands on their ears
Skeleton boy with the skeleton girl souvenir
Uh, this is the prophecy
Tenth daughter of a beast heart mother, you know that
All our lives in your hands now
All our lives in your hands now
Ice flows quicken
Drip-feed drippin' in your eye socket under the hoax moon
I don't mean to get weird now
But I know what we are
[Chorus]
Just one thing
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Led to another
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
[Verse 2]
Big climb, big fall
I saw us dying in the crystal ball
Was a big climb, big fall
The gas crawling like the ghost of the sea
You can be a drone or the god-killer-bee that I love
Uh, this is the prophecy
Tenth son of a beast heart father, the choice is
To be a slave to the big time
Champagne cork in your windpipe
And weigh a whole tonne
Or be the curved glass in a desert full of sun
Are you burning? We can burn it together
First we have to play God
[Chorus]
Just one thing
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Led to another
Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
[Bridge]
Yeah, you seem to get it
(Dancing on the ocean floor)
There's a light on the horizon
(Dancing on the ocean floor)
And the birds started singing
(Dancing on the ocean floor)
It's an infinite morning
(Dancing on the ocean floor)
[Chorus]
We are one thing
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Led to another
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
We are one thing
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Led to another
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
We are one thing
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Led to another
(Not afraid that it'll kill us, yeah
We are afraid that it won't)
Big Climb was written by Michael Spearman & Jeremy Pritchard & Alex Robertshaw & Jonathan Higgs.
Big Climb was produced by John Congleton.
Everything Everything released Big Climb on Fri Sep 11 2020.
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