Blind World - Aloe Blacc

What is the world coming to?

The way I feel about my life right now is as if I don’t

Do something quick that I might end up sick or homicidal

Appreciate the blessings lingering in my vibrato

Administrate the lessons I’m singing in my recital

Give it another title, call it the daily bread

A special formula you fix to get the baby fed

It’s brain food, that kind they ooze into a baby’s head

So he won’t be misled and when the baby’s dead

Bury him where they buried Terry just to grow a tree up

They cutting down the rainforest looking for space to free up

And paving paradise with parking lots where buildings be up

What is the world coming to?

It’s really messing me up

I got a brand new nephew in about a year

His lungs will be older than he is from the cloudy air

Not saying cloudy like the molecules of H20

I’m talking about the factories and fumes, whatever you know

And every time I’m driving, I’m thinking «I'm such a culo!»

My contribution of pollution isn’t very cool though

But what am I to do though?

I got to work to live

And if I happen to be living where my working is

Then will I ever learn to celebrate it through my kids

One day I’ll have 'em maybe but first I need a lady

And will I give her all my time and will she really love me

And will she give me shelter when the storms are up above me

I know sometimes it be my personality is ugly

And no amount of make up can make up for that

But know I recognize a game and when I’m up to bat

I’m gonna put a little change into the thinking cap

Because to change the world you gotta change your mind

We can’t go on living wrong inside of the same design

It gotta be that you and me agree to make a difference

Put up a canvas and manipulate the color pigments

To paint a portrait of tomorrow full of broader figments

In your imagination could you imagine nations?

At peace and harmony instead of genocidal warring

Where borders don’t exist and nobody’s considered foreign

Mother Earth is respected, animals are protected

Society perfected, Capitalism’s rejected

What is the world coming to?

Almost the end of us

And it’s the evils in the world today we tend to trust

How could we let the ashes crumble till they come to dust

I guess that’s what is meant to happen if you blind enough

If you ready for what is coming, then come on with me

Follow my voice, if you can hear it let the song lift me

Into the graces of Heaven’s hugs, to learn love’s embrace

And share with every beautiful face

I place my right hand on my heart

And say, let me be the start

I pound my fist on my chest and request

Allow me to be the test, and when I’m at my best

I can make a Catholic priest confess

Cause guilt is worse than the parasite in his flesh

And the flesh is weak but the pride is strong

And it can make a little lie last a little bit longer

Than it was ever intended by whom ever intended to send it

Watch the evil manifest that it rendered

And I hope you remembered your place in this

Look up at a shooting star, go 'head and make a wish

Hopefully it will be granted by the gods

Against all odds you’ll be wise enough to see through the facades

What is the world coming to?

I wish I had a answer

Better than seeing human beings as a living cancer

Better than being what I’m seeing hope I have a chance to

Raise the consciousness

Peace ya’ll and god bless

Blind World