Americana
We are each so convinced of our own importanceWe walk right by the dumpster-diver vetTrying to score some scraps on a battlefieldMore anarchic than any in Afghanistan—We might take the time to call the cops on himSince, after all, he might be better off in jail,But not if it inconveniences us.
Welcome to America. The illusionOf freedom dazzles your eyes until you seeThe harvest of death on the city streetsAnd the rally of hunger in children’s belliesAnd the boxing of women cheap as slaves,Their wombs the tombs where righteous hypocrisyBuries their free will after it rapes them.
Look at court houses marquee Moses’ lawBlanking Yeshua’s beatitudes—what’s loveGot to do with it? Suffer the little children … Yeah, that’s about right, for the kingdom of greedSucking the planet dry, as dry as Mars,Incinerating it under noxious gases,The flatulence of greed glutting on nature.
Listen to the politicians slaverWhite is the only right! Death to all others!White is the only might! Murder the many!White is the only light! Turn out the world!Madness is to mouth one scream foreverAs if psychosis were not suicideMurdering the mind with monotony.
Nature pays no mind to our mindlessness.Try as we will, our everyday crueltyBleeds just one more chance for her to mutate.The billionaire’s cancer! A brand new species?The diamond-dripping heiress? She’s overweight.Cashing-in-on-Jesus telefornicatorsOD on masturbation and adultery.
A strand of DNA is two meters longAnd three billion letters are lots of chancesFor evolution to correct its errorsStaying one code ahead of CRISPRAnd our fever for immortality,Which is actually extinction at work—Nature’s delete key waiting for the finger.
Because we made the world a better placeIt hurts to know we also choked it to death;Because we cured so many diseasesIt hurts to learn we ourselves are disease;Because we built a tower to the starsIt hurts to admit we can only babble;Because we split the atom to its quarks
It hurts to know we’re never undivided.
We are each so convinced of our own importanceWe walk right by the dumpster-diver vetTrying to score some scraps on a battlefieldMore anarchic than any in Afghanistan—We might take the time to call the cops on himSince, after all, he might be better off in jail,But not if it inconveniences us.
Welcome to America. The illusionOf freedom dazzles your eyes until you seeThe harvest of death on the city streetsAnd the rally of hunger in children’s belliesAnd the boxing of women cheap as slaves,Their wombs the tombs where righteous hypocrisyBuries their free will after it rapes them.
Look at court houses marquee Moses’ lawBlanking Yeshua’s beatitudes—what’s loveGot to do with it? Suffer the little children … Yeah, that’s about right, for the kingdom of greedSucking the planet dry, as dry as Mars,Incinerating it under noxious gases,The flatulence of greed glutting on nature.
Listen to the politicians slaverWhite is the only right! Death to all others!White is the only might! Murder the many!White is the only light! Turn out the world!Madness is to mouth one scream foreverAs if psychosis were not suicideMurdering the mind with monotony.
Nature pays no mind to our mindlessness.Try as we will, our everyday crueltyBleeds just one more chance for her to mutate.The billionaire’s cancer! A brand new species?The diamond-dripping heiress? She’s overweight.Cashing-in-on-Jesus telefornicatorsOD on masturbation and adultery.
A strand of DNA is two meters longAnd three billion letters are lots of chancesFor evolution to correct its errorsStaying one code ahead of CRISPRAnd our fever for immortality,Which is actually extinction at work—Nature’s delete key waiting for the finger.
Because we made the world a better placeIt hurts to know we also choked it to death;Because we cured so many diseasesIt hurts to learn we ourselves are disease;Because we built a tower to the starsIt hurts to admit we can only babble;Because we split the atom to its quarks
It hurts to know we’re never undivided.