Marieke Smit trad op met haar versie van I’m Gonna Be (500 miles). Ze schreef de tekst voor een opdracht tijdens het eerste voedselbos vak op de WUR (ontwikkeld door Stichting ReGeneratie). Zie hier onder de tekst en zing lekker mee!
When I wake up, well I know I’m gonna be
I’m gonna be the one who plants a ton of trees
I will build the future that I wanna see
It will be a paradise of birds and bees
I believe that more diversity is key
And then we can trust in our ecology
Cause we cannot let the agri-industry
Exploit all the land we have to fill their greed
So I will plant 500 trees
And I will plant 500 more
It may take some time to build that dream but I know what I do it for
When I started, I believed that it would be
Just a year till this works independently
Lazy farmer, that is just my cup of tea
All my harvest would come practically for free
But it turns out in the harsh reality
Systems don’t develop automatically
I get questions about productivity
People wonder if I’m not just growing weeds
But I will plant 500 trees
And I will plant 500 more
It may take some time to build that dream but I know what I do it for
Will this ever fit in “the economy”?
Maybe that is just the wrong mentality
There are questions, much we still want to study
This is still a scientific novelty
But we are with many people who believe
That this system is the change we need to see
So let’s give and take and share our energy
To be working in food forestry
So we will plant 500 trees
And we will plant 500 more
It may take some time to build that dream but we know what we do it for
So we will plant 500 trees
And we will plant 500 more
Because we are working for a world where care, not cash, is at the core