bad dreams

• joni mitchell'in 2007 tarihli shine albümünden bir şarkı.
  sözleri de şöyle:
  
  the cats are in the flower beds
  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
  
  and you cannot be trusted
  do you even know you are lying?
  it’s dangerous to kid yourself
  you go deaf, 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
  
  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 this man-made world backfiring
  keeping one eye on our brother’s deadly selfishness
  
  everyone’s a victim here
  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
  we don’t know how to shoulder 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
  
  in the dark
  a shining ray
  i heard a three-year-old boy say
  bad dreams are good
  in the great plan