The sun shines on an exhausted land
Squeezed dry by our ruthless hands
It's done its best to meet our demands
Still, we expand
And if we never sound alarms at our routine
Then soon the world around will be anything but green
Our progress swells, leaving heaps of debris
And it's easy to think that's just the way it'll be
But soon we'll miss the forest and the trees
If we keep this attitude of doing what we please
While the human plague spreads across the land
And every living thing's either killed or canned
Our lack of restraint is hard to understand
And I don't, and I won't stand by while we
Pave all around, mow the forests down
Build with slabs of chrome, plastic and styrofoam
Line the walls in lead and fifty TV screens
Paint it blue and red, and anything but green
There's a nebulous power that we'd like to blame
Corporate monsters with no sense of shame
But just by living through a typical day
We'll find we're part of the problem more than we would say
Well every form of life has their own ladder to climb
And it leads to domination of the weaker design
But you'd think at some point we'd know to draw the line
We don't, and I won't back down while we
Pave all around, mow the forests down
Build with slabs of chrome, plastic and styrofoam
Line the walls in lead, a hundred TV screens
Paint it blue and red, and anything but green
(And soon the world around will be anything but green)
And we'll pave all around, mow the forests down
Build with slabs of chrome, plastic and styrofoam
If anything's not dead we'll drown it in caffeine
Paint in blue and red, and anything but green
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