All Consuming Fire - New Model Army
Cause the rear rises up from the corporate slab All proud and flawless for you "Hello, boy," she says and the pack dogs gather Slobbering around at her heels And the women all try to stretch their faces Trying to look more like her And then chanting her name They hurl themselves Into the all-consuming fire. So onwards to the peace to end all peaces, yeah, Onward to Midas' hole Where the treasures of the world reproduce themselves Like a hoard of cancerous cells You can track the spread of the virus By the news reader's colorful attire Let's go there now, reporting life In the all-consuming fire. So save us from these justifications Every one of them is a lie Pax Americana rains and rains From two miles in the sky Men shave their heads And pay at the desk And wait for the orders to come But there's still no word, there's still no word There's still no word from the front. And a billion hungry eyes they are watching us From beyond the citadel walls We found a thousand ways to burn up the planet And we're gonna try them all The captain abandoned ship years ago But nobody thought to tell And so the band plays on, we sail gently west Into the all-consuming fire. Yeah, culture in two dimensions Is all that we require, because it burns so well, It burns so well in the all-consuming fire.
Artist: New Model Army
Title: All Consuming Fire