The World Is Burning

The world is burning can’t you see

Let’s cut them down like they do trees

the world keeps spinning when we’re gone

Yeah you heard me, dusk till dawn

gasoline and phosphorus

fossil fuels and holes like swiss

Damned if we do damned if we don’t

they won’t feed us, we’ll be gaunt

save the turtles, save the bees

But you save yourself, don’t worry about me

I don’t know about you but I want to see the flowers bloom

I don’t know about you but I’m done with this doom and gloom

CO2 is all we give, and frankly it’s not enough

Respect the earth, respect the moon even though life can be rough

you kill because you don’t want to be killed

you go to school so that you can get skilled

graduate get a job that’s what you do

oh wait, that don’t work now you are screwed

volunteer, help someone, no. better idea, rob a clerk

rape and steal, call the cops, what do you know? now your the perp

you’re doing to me what they’re doing to you

Now I can see why you joined their coup

The world is burning can’t you see

the world is burning ‘cause of jealously

I want you and you want me

he needs that and she wants free

and because you’re pretty and delicate they’ll cut you at the stem

Look at them, look at them, look at them

I’m burning, we’re burning, let’s settle it

congruence or conflict, under the sediment

We’ll become fossils long before the earth will ever die

Continue to be selfish and the next ones will use us to fuel their rides