Rosalind - Water Rises (Official Lyric Video)

We wrote a party song about climate catastrophe.
The ghost of Hurricane Sandy still lurks in New York City almost nine years later. You can see it in the high-water marks memorialized in corners of Red Hook, the endless service disruptions still caused by the flooding, and the millions of dollars allocated for defenses against rising sea levels that still have yet to break ground. In short, New York is a city haunted by the promise of its future: climate change.
What do we say to make it ok? Where’s the outrage? There’s someone more brilliant and qualified solving it. So everyday life as we know it doesn’t have to change...right?
WATER RISES is an ironic invitation to look a little closer. What would the government say to soothe us if spring disappeared? Plastic flowers are just as good? It sounds ridiculous, but is it so different from the mechanical polonizing “bees?” floated to solve our dying bee problem?
But screw bumming. WATER RISES is here to make you smile, make you think, and maybe make change by moving to a climate change anthem.
We hope you’re also inspired by the distorted, glitchy samples of Greta Thunberg's speech at the United Nations (2019), and moved to groove by the mason jar coin shakers, the paper recycling we taped behind the hammers of our piano, and the straw “mutes” we wove into the guitar.
We hope you'll join our trash party as we dance our way to climate revolution.
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