Desperate Straits Lyrics

Powerful winds blast from the shore

Fuelling the flames on the land

Subsidized billionaires blatantly keep on

Squeezing out oil from the sand

Overturned buses on flooded streets

Newspapers soaked in sewage

Contagious seagulls fighting each other

On heaps of infected garbage

Fishermen feasting on plastic fed salmon

Frogs and their S.O.S. calls

Bygone the blue whale, bison and buffalo

Dodo birds no one recalls

Nerve wrecking pesticides killing the bees

Honey, where is the honey?

Chemical lobby group reports released

Nobody follows the money

On Earth as it is in Heaven

Commence a new retrieval

Give us this day our daily bread

Deliver us from evil

People are scared their culture in danger

From people whose ways they condemn

Playing their primitive zero-sum games

Like monkeys with heads in the sand

They reckon the winner takes everything

That's how they come to be dubious losers

Users, exploiters, shameless abusers

Of power once sacred now spurious

Unregulated offshore accounts

Swelling with weapon sales profits

Government consultant proxy war heroes

Making a fortune off heroin addicts

Uninhibited stock market gamblers

Crashing the global economy

Too-big-to-fail investment banks

Bailed out by taxpayers' money

On Earth as it is in Heaven

Commence a new retrieval

Give us this day our daily bread

Deliver us from evil

Blindfolded dummies murder the rainbow

And slaughter the colour of skin

Safely protected in seals of confession

Inquisitors' perverted guilt

Now all is done and now all is said

Our possible futures have come to pass

Dug our own way from cradle to grave

Feeding the radioactive grass

Of course, this is not the end of our story

Without the suffering there's no giving birth

Life will prevail one way or another

Here on this hallowed and disfigured Earth

On Earth as it is in Heaven

Commence a new retrieval

Give us this day our daily bread

Deliver us from evil