We Can’t Really Throw Things Away

We Can’t Really Throw Things Away
Copyright 2011 Patricia M. Shannon

(chorus)
We can’t really throw things away, (audience: No we can't)
we can’t really throw things away; (audience: No we can't)
they’ll come back to haunt us, come back to taunt us;
we can’t really throw things away. (audience: No we can't)

(1st verse)
The plastic bags we throw away
can end up in oceans or lakes;
get eaten by creatures who think they are food,
and die from a big tummy ache.

(chorus) ‘Cause we …

(2nd verse)
The plastic we make and the pills that we take,
contaminate water so bad,
it can make little girls to grow up way too fast,
and boys might never be dads.


(3rd verse)
The gases that belch from the tailpipes of cars,
and spew out from our factories
can give us cancer, rot lungs and brains,
and are bringing the whole earth to its knees.

(chorus) ‘Cause we …