Climate is breaking
Ideal for school assemblies, this song laments our role in climate change.
More positively, at the halfway point the lament transforms into a prayer for us to take the initiative and to act wisely and responsibly.
It is specifically adapted from, and resonant with, the well-known song
Morning has broken.
(Hover the mouse near the text to see and compare the original lyrics.)
1. Climate is breaking,
nature is mourning;
our minds are waking
hearing earth's cries;
weep at our world-view,
weep for the warming,
weep with our God who
weeps from the skies.
2. Our acid rain falls
on every nation;
greenhouse emissions
round us amass.
May we act rightly
with God's creation;
may we tread lightly
where God's feet pass.
3. Ours is this planet,
ours is its future;
ours, too, this climate,
land, sea and air.
God, wake us each day
wise to its nurture;
yours is the earth, may
ours be its care.
Tune: Bunessan (10 9 10 9)
