Interpret:

Dan Fogelberg

Album:

The Wild Places

In the overcrowded cities where the nights are bright as day 
You spend your weekly paycheck and turn your eyes away 
From the crisis we've created with our self-indulgent ways 
Living like there's no tomorrow, well that just might be the case 


Now they're tearing down the forests and the jungles of Brazil 
Without a second thought about the species that they kill 
But extinction is forever and still the forests fall 
And push it ever closer to extinction for us all 


But you're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth 
And you can't see nothing 
Cause you're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth
And the judgment day is coming 


Now the politicians bicker on the early evening news 
Pledging their allegiance to whoever they can use 
The corporate bosses snicker as they watch the profits soar 
They don't care what they make next month just as long as it is more 


They take our farms and marshlands, drive nature to the wall 
Just so they can build another Goddamn shopping mall 
And it doesn't seem to matter if they cannot see the stars 
As long as they can keep on building obsolescent cars 


They're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth 
No they can't see nothing
They're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth 
But the judgment day is coming 


Now you cannot drink the water and you cannot breathe the air 
The sky is ripping open and you still don't seem to care 
The soil is tired and toxic and unable to provide 
The clock is running out and there is nowhere left to hide 


Now there's laws that we must live by and they're not the laws of man 
Can't you see the shadow that moves across this land 
The future is upon us and there's so much we must do 
And you know I can't ignore it and my friend neither can you 


Unless you're blind to the truth, blind to the truth 
And you can't see nothing 
You're so blind to the truth, blind to the truth 
But the judgment day is coming