Going, Going...Gone

[Words & Music: Ted Kirkpatrick]
 [This song is dedicated to the animals we share this planet with and the people who work to protect them]
 [Solo: Aaron]
 Is it greed or is it ignorance or is it both?
 As the bulldozer trashes a thousand years growth
 Clear cutting with a clear conscience
 A burning desire to burn
 If a tree falls and no one's around
 The wildlife still hear it crashing down
 [Chorus]
 You were gone before we even knew you
 And there's no way to ever get you back
 Gorilla seven days old
 Ripped from his mothers dead arms
 Her hand now an ashtray souvenir for a tourist's charms
 [Chorus]
 Will I join the ranks of the photo gallery
 It may be the only way left to see me
 Thousand acres a day
 Burning it all away
 Extinction - the price to pay
 A ton of rhino, a pound of horn
 The Javan one cursed - the wheels of greed are born
 Medicinal myth, smuggled to Hong-Kong
 Ancient superstition - reality gone wrong
 [Chorus]
 I joined the ranks of the photo gallery
 Its the only way left to ever see me
 You were gone before we even knew you
 And there's no way to ever get you back
 The greatest land animal killed for a foot of ivory
 Will your children live to see one
 Or witness decimation by tyranny
 Passenger pigeons blackened the sky
 Never a chance we would say goodbye
 Oh how I wish I could see one fly
 [Chorus]
 You were gone before we even knew you
 And there's no way to ever get you back
 American symbol of freedom and power
 Only for target practice by the hour
 Buffalo sat on the brink of no more
 [Chorus]
 Will I join the ranks of the photo gallery?
 It may be the only way left to ever see me