Smokestack Blues

[Verse] City choking black cough air so stale it won’t budge Skies turnin’ gray ‘bove the buildings they smudge Streetlamps glowin’ dull through the haze so thick Breathin’ deep in the city feelin’ oh so sick [Bridge] Mother Earth she weepin’ tears of rain Rivers choked with our refuse and pain Mountains cry out but the echoes so faint We livin’ in a picture that we can’t even paint [Chorus] Oh the smokestack blues cloud our view What’s it gonna take to make the skies turn blue We got the power and we holdin’ it tight Time to set it free time to make it right