The Earth Is Not Green lyrics

The smoke rises as if it were a prayer And the sky swallows what the axe has done There is no forgiveness in the cooling wind Only the bill that comes more than once We cut down what was not ours to cut We call what's a scar progress The earth bleeds and won't stop bleeding And we pretend it never belonged to us, it says That it came from fate, that it's a higher power That the market regulates it, that the expert solves it But every flood that inundates, every pain Is the reflection of a mirror that no one embraces There is no nature out there You are nature, you're part of it now And every burned tree burns within you Every dead river is a seed that won't grow The earth is not green, it's what we've destroyed The earth has no borders, it's what we've sold Green and blue were all we ignored And the hell we reap, we planted The flood didn't come out of nowhere, it came from us From the concrete that suffocates where life should sprout Nature isn't the victim, we are We chose to destroy instead of inhabiting It's disingenuous to say it's natural When it was a hand, it was a choice, it was easy profit The crisis didn't come from the cosmos, it came from the newspaper From the pen that signed over the fragile map Collapse Collapse Collapse It wasn't the climate that changed It was what we chose to be The wind isn't to blame The wind only obeyed Everything that exists is one and the same And we've burned a part of ourselves There's no escape in technology There's no escape in rhetoric We are the