All Consuming Fire

'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
 In, 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 live
 From the chaos scenes
 In the all-consuming fire
 So save us from these justifications
 When every one of them is a lie
 Pax Americana rains and rains
 From two miles in the sky
 Men rise from their beds
 And shave their heads
 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 lay waste to the planet
 And we're gonna use them all
 Yeah, culture in two dimensions
 Is all that we require, because it burns so well
 It burns so well in the all-consuming fire
 The captain abandoned ship years ago
 But nobody thought to inquire
 And so the band plays on, we sail gently west
 Into the all-consuming fire