All Consuming Fire

False Maria rises up from the corporate slab

All clad in flawless steel

"Hello Boys" she says and the pack dogs gather

Slavering around at her heel

And the women try to stretch their faces

Hoping to look more like her

And then chanting her name, they hurl themselves

Deep into the all-consuming fire

So onwards to the feast to end all feasting

Onwards to Midas Hall

Where the treasures of the world reproduce themselves

Like a hoard of cancerous cells

You can track the spread of the virus

By the newsreader's colourful attire

Let's go there now, reporting live

From the chaos scenes at the all-consuming fire

And save us from these justifications

When every one of them is a lie

Pax Americana reigns and rains

From two miles in the sky

Men rise from their beds and they shave their heads

And they wait for the orders to come

But there's still no word, there's still no word

There's still no word from the Front

And while a billion hungry eyes are watching us

From beyond the citadel wall

We've found a thousand ways to lay waste the planet

And we're going to use them all

A culture in just two dimensions

Is all that we require

Because it burns so well, it burns so well

So blazing bright in the all-consuming fire

The Captain abandoned ship years ago

But nobody thought to inquire

And so the band plays on, we sail gently west

So gently into the all-consuming fire