SOS from the Kids - (Official Music Video)

We are S.O.S from the Kids. A community of kids who love singing and want to protect nature. We write and sing songs as our form of environmental activism. We're asking for social and environmental justice and we invite others to sing with us. If we protect nature, nature will protect us back. It's our planet, our home. Our window is now! The song 'SOS from the Kids' is released on all platforms.
SOS from the Kids formed when brothers Sim (12) and Noah Macaulay (14) got together with their cousin, Coen and close friends to record, ‘SOS from the Kids’. Sim had written the song with his mum, Dorry Macaulay, as a wake-up call for climate action. The troupe immediately started using the song in their environmental activism, singing to politicians on the streets outside important climate meetings and at festivals. The group quickly swelled in size and gained momentum; sending their message out globally as semi finalists of Britain's Got Talent and by singing their plea to world Leaders at COP 26 in Glasgow in November 2021.
A bit about the song...
'SOS from the Kids' was written after Sim and Noah learnt about humankind's destruction of nature at school. The brothers came home telling their mum about the number of trees cut down per day, the state of the insects and the amount of energy and resources that are consumed to make a t-shirt. Watching David Attenborough's 'Climate Change - The Facts' alerted them to the crisis this destruction was causing. It had been Attenborough's nature programmes that had first inspired their boyhood fascination with bugs and insects, so they started to talk about changes they could make at home that would help the insects and animals.
Being a musician, Sim's mum started writing a song about this realisation happening in the family. Sim immediately took interest. He asked to sing it, but it didn't have proper words yet so he started suggesting lyrics and re-phrasing words to make them 'how he would say them'.
Dorry says, 'the lyrics of this song are very much pointing at me', I, as an adult, need to "change the story". It's my generation that need to take responsibility. We've left a legacy that my kid's will bare the consequences of. This song is a wake up call to myself and all "grown ups". The song started as a way to channel our family's feelings of despondency into something proactive, something that has hope and that other people could join us in.’
SOS from the Kids have put free resources on their website sosfromthekids.com. The musical score, backing track, string and guitar chords can be downloaded by anyone anywhere who would like to sing the song. SOS from the Kids invite young people worldwide to join them singing. Do let us know if your group perform this song. We'd love to share what you are doing.
Song written by Dorry Macaulay & Sim Macaulay
Recorded & arranged by Dorry Macaulay and Oliver Baines
Mixed by Oliver Baines
Mastered by Thomas Pink
Artwork by Jesse Baines
LYRICS
This is an SOS from the kids
All the grown ups take note of this
We’re finding our voice, calling you out
You can’t leave the world in fire and drought
This is an SOS from the kids
Please change the story
Re-write the plot
This beautiful earth
Can not be lost
Stop hurting our planet
Like you don’t care
There’s only one world
For us to share
This is an SOS from the kids
All the grown ups take note of this
Wake up and see that you must make a change
The riches you seek will all be washed away
This is an SOS from the kids
Please change the story
Re-write the plot
This beautiful earth
can not be lost
Stop hurting our planet
like you don’t care
There’s only one world
For us to share
Don’t listen to the fat cats, they only want their cream
Always needing oil for feeding their machines
We must care about the animals; care about the trees
I'll need help from you, you'll get help from me!
Please change the story
Re-write the plot
This beautiful earth, can not be lost
Stop hurting our planet, like you don’t care
There’s only one world, for us to share
This is an SOS from the kids
You can do better than this
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