Please forgive us should You find this insolent Or see no tears we shed after the latest trick of Yours But writhing inside, we have been guessing the motive Eeach time one disaster rallies against another; Guess we should know better that we should know better Dumbstruck by quakes and tsunamis we wish to arrive At the meaning of Mother Nature's messages Though we know we'd better take precautionary measures Whilst in the midst of the whirlwind of political rhetorics Filthy conglomerates sneer and chuckle with each drop Of the mud bursting from their oil pipes in East Java Guess we should know better that they aren't sorry