All Consuming Fire

Also Maria rises up from the corporate slab
All clad in flawless steel
"Hello boys," she says and the pack dogs gather
Slobbering around at her heel
And underwomen try to stretch their faces
Hoping to look more like her
And then chanting her name they hurl themselves
Deep into the all-consuming fire

So onward to the feast to end all feasting
Onward to Midas Hall
Where the treasures of the world reproduce themselves
Like a horde of cancerous cells
You can track the spread of the virus
By the newsreader's colorful attire
Let's go there now, reporting live
From the chaos scenes of the all-consuming fire

And save us from these justifications
When every one of them is a lie
Pack some ricotta, 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 is still no word, there's still no word
There's still no word from the front

And while a billion hungry eyes are watching us
From beyond the citadel wall
We've found a thousand ways to lay waste the planet
And we're gonna use them all
A culture in just two dimensions
It's all that we require
Because it burns so well, it burns so well
So blazing bright in the all-consuming fire
The all-consuming fire

The captain abandoned ship years ago
But no one thought to inquire
And so the band plays on, we sail gently west
So gently into the all-consuming fire