Butcher the paper, a ravenous pen Carving out trees and scoring skin Animals too placed in plastic cages Carted around these filthy pages I will draw Japan I will draw Japan I will Specters holding scepters with fingers thin Empty vessels asserting we are still king, we are still king Black stuff running like nosebleed danger Swarming towards the source of the noise I will draw Japan with fervent hands Black cells depict a foreign land, draw draw Japan Sleeping city emits no sound, in this compound No beast walks in this compound No beast walks in this compound I will draw Japan with a ravenous pen Hungry for oil and iron tin, to you're left a concrete factory Smoke billows, fists punch, victory And my hands start shaking and Japan starts shaking And I begin to draw out Japan In the shape of a man Seen rushing through a market town Through the compound No beast walks in this compound No beast walks in this compound No beast walks in this compound No beast walks in this compound