[Verse 1]
It's a brush fire spreading, feedin' as it moves
It's a disappeared glacier, it's an airborne flu
It's your disbelievin' eyes locked in concrete miles
It's your yawning conscience and your lawyer's smile
It's an occupied country foamin' at the mouth
No smoking gun, no mushroom cloud
It's a military mother with a boy in hell
And it's a flag draped casket down an oil well
It's an Argentine school girl gagged and bound
It's a torture camp, it's a long way down
It's the constant bracing shock of now
It's the whole damn world turned inside out
All right

[Verse 2]
Oh, it's a march to extinction with your God in step
It's his name in your mouth, it's his cross on your neck
It's a farm boy sprintin' over desert dirt
And he's pantin' the "Our Father" in staccato spurts
Now that's his automatic rifle, it tells no lies
That's his truth in your stomach, it's no alibi
But the trouble lies on the other side
With an equal truth prepping for his holy night
He sees his crescent and the star in the virgin sky
And hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife
And as he eases to the check point, he is calm and sure
It's collateral damage, it's the cost of war
It's another bag of bones for the gods to sort
Just another bag of bones for the gods to sort
[Verse 3]
It's the species disappearing, all the birds fly south
In a January heat wave and a pulsing crowd
It's an African militia, kids with sub machines
It's a conflict diamond on your bride to be
It's the dispossessed lining up every gate
It's the facts worth facing, faced way too late
It's the mission of modernity, go get what's yours'
'Til there's nothing leftover to get no more
And it's not what were owed, but it's what we've earned
And it's closer than we realized that it's time now
To burn

[Outro]
And oh, it's time now to burn
And oh, it's time now to burn
And oh, it's time now to burn, to burn