Pastoral Resources

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.