Bullfrogs

When I wrote this song with Catherine Svehla I'd been feeling helpless in the face of advancing climate disaster and more than a little angry about our collective inability to mitigate it, if not turn it around. Recorded live at Wave Street Studios on 9/19/25. Taylor Safina on percussion and harmonies. Charlie Joe Wallace on Dobro. From the album, Song of the Bricoleur.

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Bullfrogs
I knew the flood was comin’ what was I s’posed to do?
One body cannot stop the wave
I heard the thunder drummin’ I saw the lightnin’ too
Still, The storm seemed so far away

The word was on the wire in the ice and fire
There’ll be time and time again we all thought
They say it’s hard to see when it’s rising by degree
Bullfrogs in the pot
Bullfrogs in the pot

We scraped the earth for fortune, we scraped the sky for fame
What were we trying to prove?
The signs we just ignored ‘em while it all went up in flames
Who knew we had so much to lose

The word was on the wire in the ice and fire
There’ll be time and time again we all thought
They say it’s hard to see when it’s rising by degree
Bullfrogs in the pot.

Some say “no need to worry”, they say God has a plan
But that’s exactly what worries me,
You see, I’ve read his book, he saves a chosen few and
The rest drown in the rising sea

The word was on the wire In the ice and fire
There’ll be time and time again we all thought
They say it’s hard to see when it’s rising by degree
Bullfrogs in the pot
Bullfrogs in the pot

© Rags Rosenberg /Catherine Svehla





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