They Raped The Land

Strip mining was born man's desire

For maximum gain from minimum strain

Using water cannons they washed away

Entire mountainsides that are just desert today

The deluge lasted for too many years

So long ago, but even now it appears

The floods cut the ground like a sacrificial knife

Now just gravel and dust, three can never be life

Mountains that stood, the waves erased

Man disfigured, destroyed the earth's face

Only infertile sand, like the clot from a bleed

Annihilated, taken by greed

Maceration, the constant erosion

Total immersion, they raped the Land

Massive infusion, man's inclination

Hydraulic destruction, they raped the Land

The unholy baptism

A lymph unstoppable

Mother Nature lies violated

Used against herself

The retro gradation

Soil wearing away

Mankind is responsible

For mass decay

Water is a life-giving fluid

It is the cause of revolution

And can recreate

Man, whose instinctive nature is evil

Puts limits on himself

But is always too late

Earth, our only terra firma

Invincibly constructed

Both of shale and slate

Together, it seems

That man is weakest

But still he's had the power granted to abate

The debasement of our environment

Continues today in different ways

Two steps too far it seems we've gone

Full circle now, a sick perversion

Surrounding weakened, a quick decline

Demoralized, the last in line

Now defeated, the earth rebels

The atmosphere a living hell