Big sun, up in the sky   You burn my skin   And you hurt my eyes      Big river, closing in upon us   Our lives are swept away   In your floods that rise      The farmer lays the crop   Down into deadly ground   Growing our children's food      One day I walked in a river bed   A silent trace of waters that once flew   One day I stood on a mountain top   The world below was not the one I knew      We dance and laugh out in the acid rain   Are we travellers on a ship of fools ?      Are we all blind   Are we all blind or maybe   We just don't want to see   But want to trust that man on TV   Who's saying everything's going to be alright   Be alright for you and me   We walk right on the edge of nowhere   With our heads held high   And obviously nobody cares   They all walk on by   As if they were not concerned at all      You better look twice   At each line in the papers   You better look twice   At that man on TV   You better look twice   Into the eyes of your leaders   Or just look around   See the dying world   Don't you see it fade away   In silent grace      One day I walked in a river bed   A silent trace of waters that once flew   One day I stood on a mountain top   The world below was not the one I knew      We dance and laugh out in the acid rain   Are we travellers on a ship of fools ?      Are we all blind   Are we all blind or maybe   We just don't want to see   But want to trust that man on TV   Who's saying everything's going to be alright   Be alright for you and me   We walk right on the edge of nowhere   With our heads held high   And obviously nobody cares   They all walk on by   As if they were not concerned at all