[Intro]
An itty bitty ditty
(Twist, twist… twist twist)
A twisted Bo Diddly ditty
(Twist, twist)
[Refrain]
So here we go
(Come on! You know)
Place all you can bet
(Into the sunset)
[Bridge]
Singin’ (and swingin’)
[Chorus]
An itty bitty ditty
(Twist, twist… twist twist)
That goes like this:
(Twist, twist… twist twist)
[Refrain]
So there we go
(Come on! You know)
Place your final bet
(Unsure? …no regret)
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Singin’ (and swingin’)
Like ole school Bo Diddly
(Sing and shout)
About:
An itty bitty ditty
(Twist, twist… twist twist)
A twisted Bo Diddly ditty
(Twist, twist)
[Intro]
You want a sound…
Feet on the ground
(Something you can move to)
Do you?
[Verse 1]
Snap of the snare
Hands in the air
Feel that rhythm slide
Step to the side
Lights going low
Ready to go
When the groove locks in
That’s where we begin
[Pre-Chorus]
Heartbeat lining up with the floor
One more beat — then give you more
[Refrain]
That’s what I’m laying down
(Round!)
Turn this whole place around
(OK!)
Feel it coming through
(You!)
Something you can move to
[Verse 2]
Shake off the week
Don’t have to speak
Music says it right
Under neon light
Spin and collide
Nowhere to hide
When the bassline drops
Nobody stops
[Pre-Chorus]
Hands up high — don’t hesitate
Groove like this won’t wait
[Refrain]
That’s what I’m laying down
(Round!)
Turn this whole place around
(OK!)
Feel it coming through
(You!)
Something you can move to
[Bridge]
You said play it loud
(I’m proud!)
Lost in the crowd
(Say it!)
Give it some swing
(Let it ring!)
Hear that rhythm sing
Move now — don’t think
Blink and you’ll miss the link
[Final Refrain]
That’s what I’m laying down
(Round!)
Turn this whole place around
(OK!)
You asked me to
(True!)
Now it’s moving you
[Outro]
Something you can move to
(Do you?)
Now it’s got a hold on you
(Dance!)
That’s what I’m talking about
(Shout!)
Spin it out — spin it out — spin it out
[Intro]
What do you say…
Can you play
(Something I can dance to)
Can you?
[Refrain]
That’s what I’m talking about
(Shout!)
Shout and get it out
(OK!)
[Bridge]
What do you say…
Can you play
(Something I can dance to)
Can you?
(And I’ll dance at the chance)
[Refrain]
[Bridge]
What do you say…
Can you play
(Something I can dance to)
Can you?
(And I’ll dance at the chance)
Brings on romance
(Dance, dance, dance)
[Outro]
That’s what I’m talking about
(Shout!)
Shout and get it out
(OK!)
[Intro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Outro]
Who’s to blame
(From losing the game)
The need for greed
(To “succeed”)
While the children bleed
(It’s a shame)
… in deed
(Indeed)
ABOUT THE SONG
“Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis may be uncomfortable. Yet acknowledging that responsibility may be the first step toward restoring both ecological stability and psychological resilience.”
Widespread Distress and Solastalgia
A defining feature of this crisis is the phenomenon of solastalgia — often described as “homesickness while still at home.”
Unlike eco-anxiety, which is anticipatory fear about future environmental collapse, solastalgia arises when one’s immediate home environment is visibly degraded. It is the distress of watching familiar landscapes burn, flood, dry, or decay.
Approximately 50% of mental health burden appears to stem from direct trauma exposure. The remaining burden relates to agency — or lack thereof.
Children and adolescents possess the cognitive capacity to understand the existential dimensions of climate destabilization. Their distress is amplified not by ignorance, but by insight. What compounds the trauma is the recognition that decision-making power rests largely with adults whose responses are often perceived as insufficient, dismissive, or delayed.
The psychological strain thus reflects both trauma and moral injury.
Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis is essential for our children.
Recent observational evidence from the Arctic–North Atlantic system indicates that climate change is not proceeding linearly but is accelerating through interacting feedback mechanisms. Arctic amplification has intensified beyond earlier projections, coinciding with destabilization of large-scale atmospheric circulation patterns, increased Greenland Ice Sheet mass loss, nonlinear cryospheric events, and measurable geophysical responses such as rapid isostatic rebound. This paper synthesizes multi-decadal satellite, atmospheric, oceanographic, and cryospheric observations through early 2026, arguing that the collapse of doubling times across key indicators—Arctic temperature anomalies, sea-ice loss, ice mass balance, and circulation variability—confirms a regime shift toward accelerated climate disruption.
[Intro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
[Bridge]
Unaware (I’m already there)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah)
[Outro]
Who’s to blame
(From losing the game)
The need for greed
(To “succeed”)
While the children bleed
(It’s a shame)
… in deed
(Indeed)
ABOUT THE SONG
“Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis may be uncomfortable. Yet acknowledging that responsibility may be the first step toward restoring both ecological stability and psychological resilience.”
Widespread Distress and Solastalgia
A defining feature of this crisis is the phenomenon of solastalgia — often described as “homesickness while still at home.”
Unlike eco-anxiety, which is anticipatory fear about future environmental collapse, solastalgia arises when one’s immediate home environment is visibly degraded. It is the distress of watching familiar landscapes burn, flood, dry, or decay.
Approximately 50% of mental health burden appears to stem from direct trauma exposure. The remaining burden relates to agency — or lack thereof.
Children and adolescents possess the cognitive capacity to understand the existential dimensions of climate destabilization. Their distress is amplified not by ignorance, but by insight. What compounds the trauma is the recognition that decision-making power rests largely with adults whose responses are often perceived as insufficient, dismissive, or delayed.
The psychological strain thus reflects both trauma and moral injury.
Recognizing adult responsibility in driving this crisis is essential for our children.
[Intro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ back now)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(Still here somehow)
[Verse 1]
The river’s thinner
(Than I remember)
The summers longer
(Each September)
The fields I ran through
(Burned to ember)
But I’m still standing
(I still remember)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
Homesick
(For how it used to feel)
But home is changing
(And so are we)
[Bridge]
Unaware
(I was already there)
The loss in the air
(The weight we share)
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ around now)
Sola, la, la
(Not backing down now)
[Verse 2]
You said it’s weather
(Not the design)
You said it’s cycles
(It will be fine)
But children notice
(The warning signs)
They read the science
(Between the lines)
They feel the fracture
(Of trust and tone)
They carry questions
(We should have owned)
The moral injury
(Is overgrown)
When home keeps shifting
(Beneath their bones)
[Refrain]
Homesick
(Missing the music)
Though “You’re right here”
(Is what I hear)
Homesick
(For a steady sky)
But we’re not powerless
(If we decide)
[Bridge – Turning]
Who’s to blame
(We know the name)
Delay and greed
(Disguised as need)
While children plead
(For grown-up deeds)
Recognize
(We set the pace)
Recognize
(We shape this place)
Responsibility
(Is not disgrace)
It’s how we come home
(It’s how we face)
[Chorus – Lift]
Coming home
(Is not retreat)
Coming home
(Is change on our feet)
Home is not memory
(Alone in the past)
Home is the future
(We build to last)
Homesick
(But not alone)
We can restore
(What we have known)
Agency
(Seeds are sown)
We come back stronger
(We come back home)
[Outro]
er, ahhhh…
(Comin’ at ya)
Sola, la, la
(Solastalgia)
Yeah, yeah, yeah
(But listen closer)
The music’s faint
(But it’s not gone)
It’s in the will
(To carry on)
If home is hurting
(We don’t withdraw)
We heal the breach
(With what we saw)
Homesick…
(And wide awake)
Coming home
(Is what we make)
[Intro]
What is the price of will…
(Is it free?)
What is the weight of choice
(On you and me?)
Will…
(Still free?)
Freewill?
(Or chained by history?)
[Verse 1]
I will stand for the river
(When the tide gets higher)
I will stand for the forest
(When it’s under fire)
I will stand for tomorrow
(Though today feels dire)
If will is a spark
(Then let me be the wire)
[Chorus]
Will…
(It isn’t free still)
Freewill?
(It costs resolve and skill)
Freewill
(But we can bend it still)
We will
(We will, we will)
[Bridge]
The price of delay
(Is paid in decay)
The price of denial
(Compounds by the mile)
Maybe it’s time we see
(Choice is velocity)
History turns
(When we turn the key)
We!
[Verse 2]
I will stand for justice
(Not someday — today)
I will stand for children
(Who cannot yet say)
I will stand for science
(Though lies flood the way)
The future is shaped
(By the risks that we weigh)
[Chorus]
[Bridge – Turning Point]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass]
Not fate —
(But feedback)
Not doom —
(But pivot and act)
North and South
(Can realign)
When human will
(Shifts the design)
We determine destiny
(Collectively)
We determine destiny
(Responsibly)
[Final Chorus – Lift]
Will…
(Now we see it clearly)
Freewill?
(It grows when we act sincerely)
Freewill
(Not passive — but dearly)
We will
(We will, together)
[Outro]
Oh for tranquility
(Not fantasy)
Oh for a livable sea
(And breathable city)
The price of will
(Is paid in courage)
The gift of will
(Is collective leverage)
[Intro]
Hairline whisper
(Entropy begins)
Tiny fissure
(Under the skin)
[Verse 1]
Heat in the ledger
(Loss in the sea)
Premiums rising
(No longer free)
Storm on the coastline
(Fire on the hill)
Actuaries redraw
(What markets can’t fill)
[Pre-Chorus]
Small deviation
(Nonlinear drift)
Risk re-evaluates
(The sovereign shift)
[Chorus]
System at the edge
(Stress transmits)
Private collapse
(Public commits)
Branch upon branch
(Spread the load)
Fractal finance
(Down the road)
[Verse 2]
Policies canceled
(Last resort plan)
Backstop the backstop
(If you can)
Bonds start to tremble
(Ratings descend)
Mortgage illusions
(Begin to bend)
[Bridge]
Energy trapped
(Pressure confined)
Thermodynamic
(Debt intertwined)
From climate to credit
(Line by line)
Feedback loops
(Intertwine)
[Chorus]
System at the edge
(Threshold near)
Liquidity fades
(Spread the fear)
Fracture branching
(Network strain)
Insurance gone
(Taxpayers remain)
[Breakdown – Spoken Vocal]
It was only a crack
(So they said)
Localized loss
(Manage the spread)
But stress propagates
(Path dependent flow)
Critical mass
(And down we go)
System at the edge
(Tipping point)
Abstract risk
(Meets the joint)
Crystal markets
(Glass facade)
Climate writes
(The final clause)
[Outro]
After the yield
(After the call)
Branching lines
(Through it all)
Crystal ball
(We saw the fall)
Cracked fractals
(Shatter the wall)
