[Verse 1] It's a brush fire spreading, feedin' as it moves It's a disappeared glacier, it's an airborne flu It's your disbelievin' eyes locked in concrete miles It's your yawning conscience and your lawyer's smile It's an occupied country foamin' at the mouth No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud It's a military mother with a boy in hell And it's a flag draped casket down an oil well It's an Argentine school girl gagged and bound It's a torture camp, it's a long way down It's the constant bracing shock of now And it's the whole damn world turned inside out All right [Verse 2] Oh, it's a march to extinction with your God in step It's his name in your mouth, it's his cross on your neck It's a farm boy sprintin' over desert dirt And he's pantin' the "Our Father" in staccato spurts Now that's his automatic rifle, it tells no lies That's his truth in your stomach, it's 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 blink 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 It's collateral damage, it's the cost of war It's another bag of bones for the gods to sort Just another bag of bones for the gods to sort [Verse 3] It's the species disappearing, all the birds fly south In a January heat wave and a pulsing crowd It's an African militia, kids with sub machines It's a conflict diamond on your bride to be It's the dispossessed lining up every gate It's the facts worth facing, faced way too late It's the mission of modernity, go get what's yours 'Til there's nothing leftover to get no more And it's not what we're owed, but it's what we've earned And it's closer than we realized and it's time now To burn [Outro] And oh, it's time now to burn And oh, it's time now to burn And oh, it's time now to burn, to burn
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