Everywhere A Crisis

While the blue ball seeps infection

dismayed we sit and watch

and the racial tension index

rises up another notch

As we wait for our messiah

we're too slow to realize

that the prophets of deliverance

don't wear suits and power ties

When the puppets of corruption

give the sermon on the mount

They preach of loaves and fishes

but there's less each time we count

Chorus:

Everywhere a crisis, one more chaotic seed

when the helpless people multiply

confusion starts to breed

with their magnets on the needle

drunken leaders hold our compass in the air

and there's crisis everywhere

Each night we seek asylum

in our cubicles of fear

our violence in vicarious

as the evening news appears

every woman needs a can of mace

every doorway needs a lock

'till the world's just one big neighborhood

with crack on every block

There's gunfire in the alley

a kid got shot right off his bike

when they called up 911

the operators were on strike

Chorus

No eucalyptus for the Koala Bear

The ozone dies and sunspots flare

Riverwater filled with lead

voices in some hermit's head

lawyers thieving festivals

abductions by terrestrials

a hepatitis outbreak in the mall

this fall

Everywhere a crisis, one more chaotic seed

when the helpless people multiply

confusion starts to breed

over catatonic minion

drunken leaders hold our compass in the air

and there's crisis everywhere