Gobblers!

Here is a song written on the same holiday by the whole group of volunteers on the John Muir Trust Cae Mabon Trip July 2006


Gobblers!


We are consumers, we follow every trend
Driving to the shopping mall to spend and spend and spend
We are consumers, we boost economies
Filling all our leisure hours with endless shopping sprees!
We are the gobblers! We never have enough…
We’re addicted to shopping for stuff, stuff, stuff!

WHOAH….Bin it, toss it, chuck it in the bucket!
Find my flexi-friend so I’ve got lots of cash.
Wear it, tear it – oops! I’ll need a new one!
Just a few more outfits…hoard them in the stash.

Throw away your VCR, get some DVD’s
Buy yourself an iPod, toss the MP3’s.
Rwanda, Uganda, mountain gorilla homes
Are plundered every single day to run our mobile phones.
Children work for endless hours to give us plasma screens
But don’t spill your Nestle coffee on your Gucci jeans!

WHOAH….Bin it, toss it, chuck it in the bucket!
Find my flexi-friend so I’ve got lots of cash.
Wear it, tear it – oops! I’ll need a new one!
Just a few more outfits…hoard them in the stash.

Now the desert’s spreading, the seas are on the rise
Yet governments refuse to act, they dupe us with their lies
They know that we don’t want to live without our precious cars
Or give up foreign holidays, or plans to go to Mars
Cos we are the gobblers, who never have enough
We’re addicted to shopping so that we can strut our stuff!

WHOAH….Bin it, toss it, chuck it in the bucket!
Find my flexi-friend so I’ve got lots of cash.
Wear it, tear it – oops! I’ll need a new one!
Just a few more outfits…hoard them in the stash.

So let’s just sail away on an endless garbage sea
A tidal wave of adverts – seductive fallacies
We’ll go to River Island, jump on Waterstones
Our Oasis from the Monsoon and MacDonald’s Monotone!
Cos we are the Gobblers, we never have enough
Fried by our mobile phones, our brains are full of fluff!

WHOAH….Bin it, toss it, chuck it in the bucket!
Find my flexi-friend so I’ve got lots of cash.
Wear it, tear it – oops! I’ll need a new one!
Just a few more outfits…hoard them in the stash.

If we keep dumping rubbish and don’t stop wasting soon
Our planet will descend into apocalyptic doom
If we keep being gobblers and never have enough
Pretty soon we’ll find that things get really tough
And on the day that Earth implodes – goodbye, the Human Race!
There’ll just be a faint ring tone, drifting out in space….

(Nokia tone) Duddle-er-der, Duddle-er-der, Duddle-er-der, Duhh!
(Small voice) It’s God on the phone….

(Booming voice) WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY EARTH?!!! I LEAVE YOU ALONE FOR 5 MINUTES…..(then muttering)… I just go off for a piss….(fades away)