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.