Time to Burn

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