We live in modern days With our modern ways Resulting in great expenses But let's leave that world And live for the thrill Of pleasing our basic senses Let's go on a picnic We can pack a lunch Let's go on a picnic Won't cost that much - yeah Let's go on a picnic Just you and me and the sky Let's go on a picnic Let's enter a free world And pass technology by Just like we were children Or in our second childhood Our only worries are the ants But everything else is good An anti-materialistic date With a very low price 'Cause what's more romantic - fancy cars? Or sharing chicken with rice? Let's go on a picnic Who cares if we won't get thinner Let's go on a picnic We can pack a dinner Let's go on a picnic Yeah, a dinner in the setting sun Let's go on a picnic Let's explore pure romance With our minds set on having fun YEAH [Instrumental mixed in background sounds of kids laughing, birds, etc] Back to the world made for us That we hardly get to be a part of Allow me to take advantage of the situation And propose a toast to our love Hey - on our picnic - yeah You bring salad, I'll bring the dressing On our picnic - yeah Bring some surprises, keep me guessing On our picnic - yeah Two of us under the stars Well these may be the last few years Before we have to move to Mars Yeah, lovers have picnic-ed for centuries But the tradition is wearing thin Because throughout those centuries We've slowly destroyed the world we're in So let's enjoy this while we can While the sky's still blue and the grass still green Because while the world crawls to an end We'll recycle our love to be forever clean Let's go on a picnic To keep romance from being stale Let's go on a picnic Simplicity never fails Let's go on a picnic Nothing fancy, completely sweet Let's go on a picnic Let's hold hands in the sun, my dear And - and - and - LET'S EAT!

Commentary An older favorite of mine. It contains a lot of elements that i was excited about exploring at the time and have since retained...on the surface it's very sweet especially more towards the beginning, some of the music and words veer almost close to bubblegum - but it's all amidst the backdrop of ecological ruin and an awareness that the human race over the years has done a lot of exponential damage to our habitat and ourselves and wanting to go back in time and bring back some more of the innocence. There's lots of irony and dichotomy here, but make no mistake...underneath it all it still is a romantic song...yes i do write them on occasion! (Especially moreso in my earlier works) But it's not fluff (even though it sometimes camoflauges as it); it's romance against a backdrop of something more serious - looking at our place in the universe and exploring ways to express love in a ways more basic and traditionally meaningful even if all else seems to fall apart.

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