The Weather

We will not be satisfied, for there is nothing we cannot alter Until we find a cure of death, until we walk upon the water There came a time when I could make sense of nothing I went down to a little shrine to wash away the sins I was carrying There came a moment of absolution The blessed light shone down from the heavens Was just about the time that the gunmen burst in firing It's pretty hard to think at all when all about is screaming Electricity charge crackles in the air The lightning is going to strike but we don't know where Or when, we just know that it's coming And we change just like the weather The winds blow a little stronger The high tide reaches a little further up the beach And the sun burns hotter And we all grow a little madder As the pressure rises up a little higher And you and I we just get harder And the spaces between us wider Now beauty and landscapes are what appear on the screen Where the forests have been manicured and the oceans clean Through the telescopic sights, the drones and the satellites We can sit back in a chair and stalk our prey We command the machines and the machines obey The animals turn in panic and try to get away We fetishize the things we love and then kill them anyway And deep in the ground, amongst the bones A million dragon's teeth are sown While high above the systems realign In a swirl of water and air And we change just like the weather The wind blows a little stronger The high tides reach a little further above the beach And the sun burns hotter And we all grow a little madder As the pressure creeps up a little higher And the rivers flow a little deeper As the floodwaters stretch a little further And the hillsides they just grow drier And the fires catch a little faster And you and I we just get harder And the spaces between us wider And we change just like the weather The winds blow a little stronger The high tide reaches a little further up the beach And the sun burns hotter And the hillsides they just grow drier And the fires catch a little faster And you and I we just get harder And the spaces between us wide