Neptune

Neptune, I think I'm in love with the sea
 How do I woo you and make you love me
 I'm drenched by your passion
 Enthralled by your anger
 Becalmed by your beauty
 How do I make you love me?
 But when he spoke, it was a plea not a roar
 If you want my love, then go and tell them all:
 Don't oil my beaches, don't slaughter my whales
 Don't cross me with diesel, cross me with sail
 Give me some time to heal up my wounds
 Give me more poison and I will die soon.
 Neptune I don't understand what you fear
 Here round my island the waters are clear
 I live from your riches, your birds and your fishes
 I never would choke you, what do you need from me here?
 But then he spoke of all the change caused by me
 Your damage seems small, but let me recall
 That in your grandfather's day there ran salmon
 You could walk on their backs
 Now what's left of great shoals
 Those that slip through the cracks
 Now the salmon's in cages, gorged on fishmeal
 Sucked from some other sea by cruel profiteers, so...
 Don't oil my beaches, don't slaughter my whales
 Don't cross me with diesel, cross me with sail
 Give me some time to heal up my wounds
 Give me more poison and I will die soon.