The END

Welcome to the evening news.
Tonight:
The collective consciousness is swelling
with anticipation for the end of the world.

Seas are parting, rivers are boiling,
mountains are crumbling, skies are falling,
El-Nino's havoc-wreaking, suburban developments
metastasizing,
Millenium Bug is terrorizing,
Christ Almighty
it's the second coming!

Aliens are landing, people are starving,
black holes are vacuuming the stars in the sky.
Countries are warring, bombs are exploding,
weapons of mass destruction
are making a killing.
The environment's fading
with cloning
overriding
mating,

clear-cuts, oil spills, mad cows, dead fish
pesticides, herbicides, humanity's death wish
hunting, butchering, logging and corporate bull-dozing,
chemicals enhancing, government's snoozing,
animals are losing, extinction's advancing.
One big gun kills the tiniest aphid
and over the pristine web of life,
death is painted;
All blood is tainted.

Not to mention that nothing is sacred.
We look for salvation
in the ideals of a nation
riddled with scandal, lies, and
moral degradation.
Where in search of a thrill, kids take a pill
and it lives in their blood like a syndrome:
Pop a generation X with a glass of Jerry Springer;
induce a glamorous, merciless
suicide by overdose.
Call the psychic spiritual friends
who give free advice
for your soul a minute.
Have internet sex, fall in internet love,
become married-with-children;
just make sure your nice chat partner's not
The Good Pastor of Small Town, America,
A.K.A. "Bob the Mollestor".

Yes, tonight
is the downfall of this civilization
whose corruption overshadows
the great revelation
that free hands shall not push
for segregation,
that big brains shall not plot
degradation,
that never should we fall
by our own confession

But so is The End
of our short-lived session,
and with this procession, pop goes the world

Hey, if God holds true
to the demands of the profession,
get ready to swim,
'cause here
comes
the
flood