Click on the image or here to hear the song while you read the song lyrics in the poem below.
Artist: Joe Schembri
Lead-safety Message: For 30 years my neighbours withheld that their aircraft used leaded fuel (AvGas). In the photo, black particles are floating in a concrete pit. The small particles are attracted to each other and join together as shown. These particles came from the exhaust from piston-engine aircraft (PEAs) of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Aviation Academy at Point Cook Airfield. flying circuits over my property.
Description of Work: photo and poem by Joe Schembri with song of the poem composed, arranged and performed by Agentic AI as Orchestrated by Lucas Schembri.
Tin Can with Wings
Poem by Joe Schembri
Tin can with wings
Yes wings.
Flying in the sky.
Tin can has a sound.
The sound that is raw.
The sound is loud.
This tin can with wings
Pretending to be a bird
Be a bird flying in the sky.
The bird flying in the sky
Flying in the sky.
The birds are honest
Honest birds sounds
Sounds different nothing to hide
Nothing to hide under its wings.
Bird sounds are not raw,
Bird sounds are not loud.
Bird sounds are gentle
Gentle all the time.
Straight away you can tell the difference between the tin can with wings and a bird flying in the sky.
Flying in the sky.
The flying tin can with wings has been hidden a secret in the sky.
Thirty years hidden their secrets from the sky.
Wild birds are honest
Honest nothing to hide.
The birds leave their mark.
Leave their mark
By giving back
Yes giving back to the place they have been.
Giving back on their journey,
But on the other hand.
On the other hand
The flying tin can high in the sky.
High in the sky.
Your secret has been uncovered
Uncovered hidden in the sky.
Thirty years of Deception
Thirty years of telling a lie.
Thirty years of Good Neighbourly policy.
Good Neighbourly policy just a lie.
Yes a Lie!
Lie!
Thirty years our leader telling us lies!
Thirty years of seaward circuits
Seaward circuits that failed to be delivered
Thirty years of dark particles
Dark particles raining down from the sky.
Raining down on our Children.
Raining down.
Our leaders knew
Yes our leaders knew.
Our leaders knew of the facts
The facts that dark particles harm our Children
Harm our Children
Harm our Children while they play.
Our leaders knew
Yes our leaders knew.
But it was so easy
To look the other way.
Our leaders eyes were fixed
Eyes were fixed
Our leaders eyes were fixed to the tin can in the sky.
Our leaders couldn’t see the Children!
Children!
Our leaders eyes were fixed to the sky.
The tin can with wings flying in the sky.
Children were playing
Playing while dark particles
Dark particles rained from the sky.
Our leaders knew
Our leaders failed
Our leaders lied
So the tin can with wings can fly in the sky .
Tin can flying in the sky.
Our leaders eyes were fixed to the tin can with wings
In the sky.
Our leaders failed us
Failed us many times over.
Thirty years of lies.
Failing to protect our children
Failed to stop the dark particles
Dark particles raining on our Children
Good Neighbourly policy
What a lie
Lies
Yes lies
That keep the tin can flying in the sky
Yes lies in the sky
Lies in the sky
My family and others families at Point Cook
Was told lies and they covered over with words.
The Good Neighbourly policy
Is only a shopfront for their lies
Our leaders failed us,
They knew and said nothing
To warn us of the harm
Of lead contamination
Because they allowed aircraft
To fly over children.