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Song for a Small Planet

by Teresa Doyle

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I wrote this track for a project by the same name. Songs for a Small Planet is an international songwriting collective focused on climate activism and promoting environmental sustainability and social justice through the power of original music. It’s time for a new narrative, not of global destruction, but of global re-generation. The climate crisis needs songwriters to pull people out of hopelessness and embrace the myriad solutions that are already unfolding. While politicians dither and take up arms, communities are springing into action creating eco-villages, re-generative farms, renewable energy projects, net-zero houses and much more. Thousands of organizations around the world are lit-up with new ideas and technologies giving people a sense of purpose and dignity. As songwriters we need to do our part. 

Musician Teresa Doyle, author/musician Todd MacLean, and arts administrator Rob Oakie joined forces to create Songs for a Small Planet. The intent is to ignite a network of musicians around the globe to compose visionary songs of hope, community, justice, and environmental renewal. We are beginning with a collective of musicians from Prince Edward Island, Canada who can reach out to national and international peers, requesting they write songs on the theme and further spread the idea in their own communities. 

The full scope of the project could reach thousands of people through songwriting networks worldwide. Together with artists from every corner of our small planet we can use our voices as inter-generational climate advocates. Change comes when people take charge in great numbers in a million small ways. It is an exciting time to be a songwriter.

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We're on a small planet spinning around
chasing our tails without our feet on the ground
looking for joy and all the wrong places
walking around with lonely faces.

I've got a house in a bit of land,
I've got too much stuff and I can't understand
why we strive for more when we have so much
what we truly crave is human touch.

Chorus:
Human touch, time together, human touch and simple pleasures
like a walk on the beach or a hike in the woods
all the little things that make us feel so good, like human touch.

Every other species has it figured out
they don't borrow trouble or look for a doubt
but our minds are busy with 1000 things and
we're blind to the beauty the moment brings.

We're suffering late stage capitalist psychosis
left untreated it's a grim prognosis
embrace the cure find a new way to live
stop taking so much and learn how to give.

Here we are folk musicians dreaming of a brighter vision working hard to put things right because a little song can be a beacon of light.

credits

released May 11, 2022
Words, music, vocals Teresa Doyle
Arranged engineered and produced by Andrew MacIssac.
Guitars, keyboards, percussion, merlin Andrew McIssac
Background vocals Patrick Bunston
Mixed by Adam Gallant at Hill Sound

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Teresa Doyle Prince Edward Island

Teresa Doyle is a folk/celtic/jazz/world singer from rural Prince Edward Island. Music from her 12 releases has garnered three ECMAs, two JUNO nominations and the 2007 Victor Martyn Lynch -Staunton Award given annually to one Canadian musician. She's toured in Canada, The U.S., Mexico, Europe and Japan. ... more

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