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: Piston-engine aircraft (PEAs) of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Aviation Academy were supposed to fly seaward from Point Cook Airfield, but instead they fly over residents, making noise and dropping lead emissions on children, reducing their learning abilities. When RMIT was training Chinese pilots in a circuit, aircraft flew over our home every minute.
Description of Work: Point Cook TV screenshots from “Airfield Anger” news article, Wyndham TV, 5th Nov 2018 showing Joe Schembri and map graphic, from https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=191993791717795 ; collaged with photo (of leaded AvGas PEA over Joe’s home) and poem by Joe Schembri with song of the poem composed, arranged and performed by Agentic AI as Orchestrated by Lucas Schembri.
Pilots and Our Leaders
Poem by Joe Schembri
Hmmmmmm
Pilots and our leaders think
Children don’t matter anymore,
While planes fly in the sky
Children.
Yes Children don’t matter anymore
While planes flyin’ in the sky.
Yes,
Children don’t matter anymore.
Planes try to fly like birds in the sky,
But they’re only metallic.
Yes – metallic.
A tin can with wings.
Their sounds are raw and bloody loud.
As they fly in the sky.
Leaving a tail of metallic grey
Yes grey particles falling from the sky.
Children don’t matter anymore,
While planes fly in the sky.
Yes!
Yes today, Children don’t matter anymore
While planes fly in the sky.
Be real.
Yes today. Children don’t matter anymore.
We are told that pilots and our leaders do care about Children.
That is a lie.
They lie to keep the tin can with wings flying in the sky.
Our leaders don’t care about Children
Pilots don’t care about Children.
Why!
Yes why?
There is so much space.
Why planes fly over Children?
There is so much space.
Why fly over Children?
There are other places to fly.
Our leaders failed us.
Our leaders don’t care about our Children.
Pilots failed us.
Pilots don’t care about our Children.
Good Neighbourly policy is a lie.
Good Neighbourly policy is just another one of their lies.
Our leaders and pilots look the other way
They want the tin can with wings to fly in the sky .
Children don’t matter anymore.
While planes fly in the sky.
The raw and deafening sound of the tin can with wings.
Covering up the sound of the Children playing.
Children playing.
Children don’t matter anymore.
While our leaders and pilots look the other way.
Look the other way.
They can’t see the Children.
They can’t see the Children.
They are high on that grey sty
They are high.
They can’t see the Children.
The grey stuff
Dropping from the sky.
Children don’t matter anymore while planes fly in the sky.
The tin can with wings is flying in the sky.
It doesn’t make sense.
Yes it doesn’t make sense.
They can fly away from Children.
They can fly away.
Yes.
Fly away from Children it’s simple.
Stay away from Children.
Just listen pilots and our leaders.
It’s simple
Stay away from Children.
Listen! Children are our future.
Yes! Our Future.
Children do matter all the time.
So stay away from our Children
Tin can with wings, fly away.
Fly away.
Our Children do matter all the time.
Children do matter all the time.
All of the time. All of the time.