Sapiens

 

An egret dies outside New Orleans
His feathers are covered in oil
Outside my window a cold wind is blowing
It’s raining in Willow Pond Park
A lion was shot outside Jo’burg to become a trophy tonight

There are two hundred wolves here in Sweden
Help! They are eating the moose!
Let’s shoot them, those moose are ours!
There are seven billion people on Earth
Let’s cut down some more trees to make room!
And if we turn off the lights for an hour a year
We can all take the car to the store

In Yemen a girl is sold to an old man
Change the channel - we want to watch sports!
Women in the Congo are gang raped
Have you heard of what Lindsey’s been doing today?
In the Bengal a baby dies from starvation
There’s a shoe sale today at the mall
Build thicker walls on the slaughterhouse
Eat Piglet for dinner tonight

Beauty is dead
We killed it
It was not productive enough
We built a factory there in its place
It makes cheap t-shirts for hot summer days

The river where Jesus was baptized
Will be all gone by the next year or so
No more river
No more river of Jordan
No more river
There’s no more river to cross

We killed Jesus in Auschwitz
Jehovah in Hiroshima
The last of the angels died with Rwanda
The few that survived Königsberg and Hanoi
And Buddha was shot a long time ago
For being a non-conformist
For being a bum hippie slob

We have a new god
His name is Mammon
We love him ‘cause he gives us things
It says in the Bible the rich won’t win Heaven
But who needs a Heaven to dream of 
When we have caffelatte on Earth