It’s a brushfire spreading, feeding as it moves   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 lawyer’s smile   It’s an occupied country, foaming 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 Argentina school girl, gagged and bound   It’s a torture camp, it’s a long way down   It’s the constant brace and shock of now   It’s the whole damn world turned inside out, all right      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   And he’s panting the ‘Our Father’ in staccato spurts   now that's his automatic rifle and 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 in the virgin sky   He 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   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 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 were owed but it’s what we’ve earned   And it’s closer than we realized that it's time now, to burn      It’s time now to burn   Oh, it’s time now to burn