["When I moved out to Vancouver (Canada!) in 1987, I took a walk down to a nearby river. it looked calm and peaceful, yet alive. a closer look (and smell) changed my peaceful mood into a feeling of disgust and disappointment: the water was full of raw sewage and chemicals, which I later found were spewing out from a plant upstream, as well as a garbage dump located, ever so brilliantly, fifty feet from the shoreline. this was the first time I've ever really thought of about the permanent environmental damage being done and, although I'm not about to hold up protest slogans and join Greenpeace, 'stonewall' is my way of bringing the subject up for thought."]



Stonewall, go to bat

Unless you want to live like that

Stonewall, can't we see

We're our own worst enemy



A land said to have all, wealth in land, in man

Qualities soon to exhaust as man's greed poisons the land

Streams, once fresh, were centres of life for so many a creature

Beauty without defence, polluted, never to replenish



Collage, blue and green, seen as golden industrial sites

Smudge as toxic pollutants destroy her remaining rights

The power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air

Fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire



It's time to listen, and see the signs

It's time to listen and hear her cries



The one that gave us life is being burnt to the raw

Reaping unprotected riches, human nature's self-destruction flaw

The power of corporations, spewing chemicals into the air

Fines are imposed to discourage, but what's a dime to a millionaire