Hurry Up and Eat your slow food
Hurry Up and eat your slow food,
Stop making such a fuss,
Hurry up and eat your slow food
’cause we’re gonna miss the bus
The climate is is changing fast,
No time to sit and stare
We have to heal this planet
and show each other how to care
There is no time for digestion
We are really in a race
The ice caps they are melting
and are gonna flood this place
So hurry up and eat your slow food
Stop making all this fuss
Get it into you quickly
We have to catch that bus
No more time for self indulgence
We have to serve this land
So get up off your backsides
And give your heart and hands
Food is all around us
In forest, lake and sea,
We only need the knowledge,
So we can start to see
There was a black time in the past
When famine spread throughout the land
That time will come again for us
This you must understand
One million people starved to death
a population in sharp decline
A land was torn asunder
but monoculture does not mind
They relied on one potato
which was ruined with blight
And Ireland’s sons and daughters
died or just took flight
What is this stuff we’re eating
Does it grow here on our soil
or is it the production
of some poorer person’s toil
It’s time to wake and shake ourselves
We’ve been sleeping for too long
We need to courage to use our voice
to admit we have been wrong
We have to work together
Move past our egos call
We all hold a part of the jigsaw
But none of us hold them all
Communities across the world
are growing day by day
to take charge of their resources
and finally have their say
And now I really have to go
The future of food is ours to choose
But if we choose the passive route
Then all of us will lose
So hurry up Get into slow food
Take your time and make your choice
If it don’t look like its natural
Then have courage and use your voice
Your food is your liberation
from the shackles of industry
take time to grow and know your food
and your struggle will set you free
set you free set you free
and your struggle will set you free