Living in a greenhouse
Growing crops that we can't eat
Making money out of poverty
Turning forests into meat
We got our fingers on the trigger
Of some suicidal gun
The population's getting bigger
Underneath a dying sun
There's a fire in the furnace and there's nothing left to burn
Buried waste has reached the surface, is there nothing left to learn?
Every day, ozone's getting layered
Every way, life is getting worse
Everybody's lung is getting cancer
Everyone, something more to lose
Every country, armies are rising
Every gene, splitting into two
Every breath, monoxide getting stronger
Every sea, whales are beached
Economies are growing
Subsistence life is dead
We can't sustain this growth and
Things are coming to a head
We gotta learn to climb down
The ladder of success
With two feet on the ground
We gotta clean up all this mess
There's a fire in the furnace and there's nothing left to burn
Buried waste has reached the surface, is there nothing left to learn?
Every life, extinction is forever
Every town, riots in the streets
Every sky, greenhouse is affecting
Every tree, dying in the breeze
Every plant, chemical pollution
Every song, relying on the beat
Every lake, water getting shorter
Every heart, aching for release
Aching for release
Aching for release
Aching for release
Aching for release
Ahh!
Surviving in a world of mass production, we must all consume to live
Our working lives to give and join the unemployment lines
When confidence is low
Confidence is low
Confidence is low
Confidence is low
A man must try to sell his labour to the highest bid
And keep his anger hid and try not to get pulled into
The vicious undertow
Vicious undertow
A vicious undertow
A vicious undertow
But even in the middle classes they fall into that hole
Aspiring to that goal of rising from the yoke of
Such an exploitative state
Exploitative state
Exploitative state
Exploitative state
Consume to live
Consume to live