Blind To The Truth Lyrics - Fogelberg Dan

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 

In 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. 

Chorus 

But you're so blind to the truth 

Blind to the truth 

And you can't see nothin' 

You're so blind to the truth 

Blind to the truth 

But the judgement day is coming. 

Now the politicians bicker 

On the early evening news 

Pledging their allegiance 

To whoever they can use 

And 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. 

The 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 we cannot see the stars 

Just as long as they can keep 

On building obsolescent cars 

'Cause they're so... 

(Repeat chorus) 

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 hid. 

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... 

(Repeat chorus)