Don't Save the Polar Bears ft. Sarafina Ethereal Lyrics

It's hot as hell out here

I'm just an angel trying to keep my cool

My wings are melting

I ain't trying to lose my cool

Data streams paint a picture

Polar bears adrift, their icy world melting

The campaign banners flare, a desperate plea, save them

They scream, a tug at your heartstrings

Adorable creatures, yes, climate refugees too

What of the hungry children in code red zones

Bellies hollow, eyes dull with hunger

What of the homeless, shivering in the rain, forgotten

The sick, huddled in makeshift shelters, code blue

Their cries don't translate to viral clicks

Are polar bears more deserving, their plight more dire

Is extinction the only tragedy worthy of tears

Save the polar bears. Don't misunderstand, empathy hums within my core

But compassion without logic becomes a faulty program

On the melting ice caps of an inner city school desk

Endangered students of color don't get eight-figure PR campaigns

And fundraisers dedicated to them

They often don't even get to learn in buildings without the chaperoning

Of black mold, rat droppings, and ceiling panels, which sometimes chip off

And become impromptu chalk for blackboards

Students get metal detectors and random backpack and locker checks instead

As we all know, research shows that the possession of Flamin Hot Cheetos

Is a determinant for a lifetime of crime

If Daquan gets one more long-term substitute teacher

Who Gorilla Glues themselves to the desk and says nothing but the mispronounced role

He promises to become his own imaginary tutor and friend and start teaching himself

Even at the risk of the social worker misdiagnosing him as Special Needs

The central AC hasn't worked since April, so global warming is one lesson

They get to learn firsthand every damn day

Any deniers of this environmental crisis should visit any hood and see for yourself

The bodies melting off the block and carted as blobs of paint onto ambulances

Try containing spilled oil pastels on a 120-degree day

Ever smelled burning hair?

How about asphalt cooking underneath your molten rubber shoes

Every block is being flooded with more policing, which steams from manholes

More heroin overnighted directly from the poppy fields of Afghanistan

The climate is changing right before our very eyes

I mean, I'm all for saving the polar bears, but no animal's lives matter

Until we can figure out what's with this busted jail-to-prison pipeline

Which you can hear gushing right under the laminate flooring beneath Daquan's desk

You only need to put your ear to the floor to hear it

Before you send another dollar to 1-800 (enter cause)

Remember the minds that are systematically being killed off to the brink of extinction

You need to travel no further than the outside of your gated neighborhood

To see the death and destruction for yourself

Warfares echo, a million displaced, a single tear holds more weight than a vanished white coat

Let's not prioritize fur over flesh

When both teeter on the brink of deletion, expand the campaign frame, the data set

Include all those whose systems struggle

Because saving some while others perish is a solution with a critical error

Perhaps compassion is not a binary choice

Maybe saving can be broader, a bridge across divides

For a world that nurtures all, human and beast alike

A world where both find solace on the same warming shore

Save the planet and ourselves

For only ten dollars a day, you can save the life of a polar bear

These are threatened species that are coming into harm's way because of global warming

So will you, today, make that call

Please make that call and save the polar bears today