It's a brush fire spreading feeding as it moves And it's a disappeared glacier it's an airborne flu It's your disbelieving eyes locked in concrete miles It's your yawning conscious and your lawyers smile It's an occupied country foaming at the mouth It's no smoking gun, no mushroom cloud It's a military mother with a buoyant hell And it's a flag tricked casket in an oil well It's an Argentina school girl gagged and bound It's a torture camp and it's a long way down It's the constant brace and shock of now It's the whole damn world turned inside out, alright 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 sprinting over desert dirt He's panting my father and discado spirts (?) In his automatic rifle and it tells no lies That's truth in your stomach, it's no alibi But the trouble lies on the other side With an equal truth brethren for his holy night With his crescent and the star and the virgin sky And here's the calm milk and honey from the after life 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 It's just another bag of bones for the gods to sort It's the species disappearing, all the birds fly south In a January heat wave and the pulsing crowd It's an African militia kids with sub machines It's a conflict diamond on your bride to be It's the mission of identity go get what's yours Till there's nothing leftover to get no more And it's not what were owed but it's what we've earned And it's closer then we realized and its time now to burn It's time now to burn Oh, it's time now to burn