Bad Dreams Lyrics - Shine - Joni Mitchell

The cats are in the flower bed 

A red hawk rides the sky 

I guess I should be happy 

Just to be alive... 

But we have poisoned everything 

And oblivious to it all 

The cell phone zombies babble 

Through the shopping malls 

While condors fall from Indian skies 

Whales beach and die in sand... 

Bad dreams are good 

In the great plan. 

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You cannot be trusted 

Do you even know you're lying 

It's dangerous to kid yourself 

You go deaf and dumb and blind. 

You take with such entitlement. 

You give bad attitude. 

You have no grace 

No empathy 

No gratitude 

You have no sense of consequence 

Oh my head is in my hands... 

Bad dreams are good 

In the great plan. 

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Before that altering apple 

We were one with everything 

No sense of self and other 

No self-consciousness. 

But now we have to grapple 

With our man-made world backfiring 

Keeping one eye on our brother's deadly selfishness. 

And everyone's a victim! 

Nobody's hands are clean. 

There's so very little left of wild Eden Earth 

So near the jaws of our machines. 

We live in these electric scabs. 

These lesions once were lakes. 

No one knows how to shoulder the blame 

Or learn from past mistakes... 

So who will come to save the day? 

Mighty Mouse? 

Superman? 

Bad dreams are good in the great plan.