You can look a hurricane right in the eye 
twelve hundred people dead 
or left to die, follow the leaders 
were it an eye for an eye
we'd all be blind 
deaf or murdered this i'm sure 
in this uncertain time 

so come pull the sheet over my eyes 
so I can sleep tonight 
despite what I've seen today 
I find you guilty of a crime 
of sleeping at a time 
when you should have been wide awake 

Down on the road the world is floating by 
The poor and undefended left behind 
While you're somewhere trading lives for oil 
As if the whole world were blind 

so come pull the sheet over my eyes 
so I can sleep tonight 
despite what I've seen today 
I find you guilty of a crime 
of sleeping at a time 
when you should have been wide awake

wide awake
wide awake
wide awake
wide awake