[Verse 1] Its a brush fire spreading, feedin as it moves Its a disappeared glacier, its an airborne flu Its your disbelievin eyes locked in concrete miles Its your yawning conscience and your lawyers smile Its an occupied country foamin at the mouth No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud Its a military mother with a boy in hell And its a flag draped casket down an oil well Its an Argentine school girl gagged and bound Its a torture camp, its a long way down Its the constant bracing shock of now Its the whole damn world turned inside out All right [Verse 2] Oh, its a march to extinction with your God in step Its his name in your mouth, its his cross on your neck Its a farm boy sprintin over desert dirt And hes pantin the Our Father in staccato spurts Now thats his automatic rifle, it tells no lies Thats his truth in your stomach, its no alibi But the trouble lies on the other side With an equal truth prepping for his holy night He sees his crescent and the star in the virgin sky And hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife And as he eases to the check point, he is calm and sure Its collateral damage, its the cost of war Its another bag of bones for the gods to sort Just another bag of bones for the gods to sort [Verse 3] Its the species disappearing, all the birds fly south In a January heat wave and a pulsing crowd Its an African militia, kids with sub machines Its a conflict diamond on your bride to be Its the dispossessed lining up every gate Its the facts worth facing, faced way too late Its the mission of modernity, go get whats yours Til theres nothing leftover to get no more And its not what were owed, but its what weve earned And its closer than we realized that its time now To burn [Outro] And oh, its time now to burn And oh, its time now to burn And oh, its time now to burn, to burn
burn, sort, sprintin, prepping, disbelievin