True Confessions of a Sinner

I saw a vision of a land in decay
I wanna turn and walk away
Our promised land was blackened by man
And they all held picks and chipped away

There were no sounds of nature around
For they had died on a forgotten day
Oh no, this can't be real
I don't need this kind of place

I felt the anger roll in like fog
But the time to act had passed, it was gone
I walked amongst this product of man
As I witnessed this product of greed
I remember thinking out loud
Is this what it means to be free

I saw a lady all dressed in white
So pure among the smoked-filled night
You know I ran just to touch her skin
She attracted me like the coming of wind
The coming of wind

I wanted to believe it was all a dream
But too focused in every scene
She grabbed my hand and pointed across the land
My son, what you see is

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True confessions of a sinner
True confessions of a sinner
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I walked amongst this darkened humanity
Avoiding debris wind threw at me
A prayer I said for the lost Amazons
And gathered the last, the last green leaf
The last green leaf

Oil-wasted oceans stained once white beach
Crude rose between my toes
Things have gotten out of reach
Salt from my tears mixed with salt from the sea
I kissed the last damn whale that lay in the sand with me