Bad Dreams-Joni Mitchell

[00:46.34]The cats are in the flower bed [00:51.95]A red hawk rides the sky [00:57.81]I guess I should be happy [01:01.92]Just to be alive [01:06.01] [01:09.15]But we have poisoned everything [01:12.78] [01:14.96]And oblivious to it all [01:21.11]The cell phone zombies babble [01:25.32]Through the shopping malls [01:26.87] [01:32.97]While condors fall from Indian skies [01:38.74]Whales beach and die in sand [01:42.42] [01:45.03]Bad dreams are good [01:49.55]In the great plan [01:53.23] [02:05.80]You cannot be trusted [02:09.30] [02:11.72]Do you even know you're lying [02:17.09]It's dangerous to kid yourself [02:21.15]You go deaf and dumb and blind [02:28.83]You take with such entitlement [02:33.26] [02:34.70]You give bad attitude [02:37.71] [02:40.74]You have no grace [02:43.17]No empathy [02:46.73]No gratitude [02:52.13]You have no sense of consequence [02:56.14] [02:58.44]Oh my head is in my hands [03:02.85] [03:04.61]Bad dreams are good [03:08.68]In the great plan [03:15.48] [03:23.96]Before that altering apple [03:26.46]We were one with everything [03:29.45]No sense of self and other [03:32.16]No self-consciousness [03:35.62]But now we have to grapple [03:37.77]With our man-made world backfiring [03:41.19]Keeping one eye on our brother's deadly selfishness [03:47.85] [04:00.88]And everyone's a victim [04:05.95]Nobody's hands are clean [04:10.06] [04:12.47]There's so very little left of wild Eden Earth [04:16.34]So near the jaws of our machines [04:21.82] [04:24.88]We live in these electric scabs [04:30.09] [04:30.65]These lesions once were lakes [04:35.46] [04:37.02]No one knows how to shoulder the blame [04:40.39]Or learn from past mistakes [04:45.62] [04:48.08]So who will come to save the day [04:53.16] [04:54.37]Mighty Mouse [04:57.26]Superman [05:00.40]Bad dreams are good in the great plan