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DOWN TO ZERO

from THE TIME IS NOW by Jim Page

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    11 songs recorded at Studio Litho in Seattle. Engineered by Floyd Reitsma (Pearl Jam, Chris Cornell, Dave Matthews). Comes in a 6 panel digipak with full color artwork and layout by Joel Litwin. All credits and personnel listed.

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about

Older people like me aren’t going to live to see the possible devastation of climate change, but young people will. I had already become frightened for children and what they had to look forward to when one day I walked outside and saw the sun trying to shine through the long distance smoke of the Canadian fires – a sun whose color was like the sad dark red of the emergency light in a burning building. The line popped into my head, “a redder sun than used to be.” A few months later at my friends house in San Francisco I wrote the rest of the verses.

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there are no words enough to say
how a world like this could die away
how reason falls on deaf ears
truth dissolves and disappears

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

they warned us years ago
people laughed it off said “what do they know”
and we went our separate ways to find
a future facing the end of the line

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

now the weather stumbles, forests burn
past the point of no return
corporation money thrives
while the refugees look for a place to survive

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

history walks the plank
its eyes are flat, its face is blank
the melting ice the rising sea
a redder sun than used to be

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

I know people who live in trees
who chain themselves to machineries
who face the judge’s scornful stare
there is no shelter anywhere

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

thunder clap, the black snake
times like these you do whatever it takes
wherever a line is drawn
for the people and the land they live on

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

I fear for the children I see
and I don’t blame them when they look at me
as if to say “how could you?
we were depending on you”

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

I woke up in a sweat last night
so all alone I couldn’t face my fright
but I took a look around to see
millions more just like me

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

resistance goes from hand to hand
for the air, the water, the people, the land
tomorrow is born from the seeds of today
and we are going that way

and the clocks are counting
down to zero

credits

from THE TIME IS NOW, track released April 16, 2022
Recorded at Studio Litho, engineered by Floyd Reitsma
Mixed by Floyd Reitsma, mastered by Ed Brooks @Resonant Mastering
© 2020 Jim Page, Whid Isle Music BMI, all rights reserved
Jim Page - guitar and vocal
Orville Johnson – lap steel
Jessica Lurie - saxophone
Dune Butler – bass
Joel Litwin – drums
J.R. Rhodes – vocal

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Jim Page Seattle, Washington

Named by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine as “One Of The 50 Most Influential Musicians In Seattle History.” Originally from California Page has called Seattle and the Pacific Northwest “home” since 1971. Songs covered by The Doobie Brothers, Christy Moore, Dick Gaughan, Michael Hedges, and Roy Bailey. Utah Phillips: “If you’re ever going to get the message, this is the messenger to get it from.” ... more

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