1. TOUR CRUSHER

Beware the tourcrusher

Nothing but sorrow and pain
Heed my warning
Here he comes, no one is safe
No one is safe

A line drawn in the sand
You dare not cross
Or ablaze with the witches
Orders from the boss

Or ablaze with the witches

Like a plague


2. BORN INTO THIS

Born like this, into this
As political landscapes dissolve
As the supermarket bag boy
Holds a college degree
As the oily fish
Spit out their oily prey
Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness
Bars where people no longer speak to each other
Fist fights that end as shootings and knifings

Born into this
Into hospitals so expensive, it's cheaper to die
Into lawyers who charge so much, it's cheaper to plead guilty
Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes
Muted because of this
Castrated
Debauched
Disinherited
Pissed on by this
The heart is blackened
The fingers reach for the throat
The gun
The knife
The bombs
The fingers reach toward an unresponsive god
The fingers reach for the bottle
The pill
The powder
We are born into this sorrowful deadliness
And the banks will burn

Nuclear power will be overtaken by the many
Explosions will continually shake the earth
The rich and chosen will watch
From space platforms

The sun will not be seen
All vegetation will die
The rotting bodies of people and animals
Will stink in the dark wind
The last few survivors will be
Overtaken by new and hideous diseases

The petering out of supplies
The natural effect of general decay
And there will be the most beautiful
Silence never heard
Born out of that
The sun still hidden there
Awaiting the next chapter


3. NERVE DAMAGE

Drowning myself
In an ocean of vomit
I've drank too much again
Mammals from the deep
To my rescue
Whiskey did me in

Bolt Thrower blasting
In the background
Ringing in my ears
Is a gurgling sound
Loss of breath
Lungs filled to the brim
I can't breathe
Death slowly creeping in
Out of the darkness
Here they are
To my rescue
My bottle-nosed friends
Saved me again
Back to the abyss
Awaiting the next blackout

Drowning myself
In an ocean of vomit

I've drank too much again
Whiskey did me in


4. ANNIHILATION OF OUR KIND

Write it backwards
Meet the curb
Delicious bag of herb
All gone and served
Many a snitch is choking
Cosmic giggle not always joking
Get it?
Did not, retrieve anything
Just been there
Some supposing
Just poke an apple
Do not talk at the place inside
Some will be leering
Awkward potion soaking
Look at seer
Maybe thinking never happened
Flinch
Seen the haze is the mist
Crown encrusted ego
Seam and desist
Searching for a lid
Let it all out
This is what sandals are all about


5. KOYAANISQATSI

Five hundred years
And every promise broken
From Coronado to Bush
Backstabbing gringos
Consistently marginalize

Original people
Forced into the least fertile
Corners of the continent
Yet still surviving
Black mesa is not dying
It is being killed
Because Peabody and Halliburton
See dollar signs where
There are sentient hills
Life sustaining aquifier
Already exhausted
Unwanted highways
Penetrating Hopiland
As corporate greed
Salts virgin earth

But prophecies unfold
Soon Pahana will return
Egalitarian harmonization
For the empathic
As whitey and Uncle Tom
Meet a swift demise
The gourd of ashes fell
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Have been obliterated
Sacred relations cauterized
The web replaced with power lines
The hemisphere we have raped
And brutalized
Our collective actions
Cause the reaction
Of impending self-genocide

Five hundred years
And every promise broken


6. PEACE MAKER

The joyless wonder it is
For murderers we are not
Slipping into its rusty grip
It's not too far-fetched
Sinking to be the fuel
Burning

Peace maker do my bidding

Your tragedy lies beneath my weapon
And its roots run deep
Taste the back hand of my mind cleaner
Snuff you out

Death dealer
Christ killer
Murderous skin peeler

You keep building and building
I'll keep burning and burning