Kevin Devine - Another Bag Of Bones lyrics

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<br>It´s a brushfire spreading <br>feeding as it moves <br>It´s a disappeared glacier <br>it´s an airborne flu <br>It´s your disbelieving eyes locked in concrete miles <br>It´s your yawning conscious and your lawyer´s smile <br>It´s an occupied country <br>foaming at the mouth <br>No smoking gun <br>no mushroom cloud <br>It´s a military mother with a boy in hell <br>And it´s a flag draped casket down an oil well <br>It´s an Argentina school girl <br>gagged and bound <br>It´s a torture camp <br>it´s a long way down <br>It´s the constant brace and shock of now <br>It´s the whole damn world turned inside out <br>all right <br> <br>It´s a march to extinction with your god in step <br>It´s his name in your mouth <br>it´s his cross on your neck <br>It´s a farm boy sprinting over desert dirt <br>And he´s panting the ´Our Father´ in staccato spurts <br>now that´s his automatic rifle and it tells no lies <br>That´s his truth in your stomach <br>it´s no alibi <br>But the trouble lies on the other side <br> <br>With an equal truth prepping for his holy night <br>He sees his crescent and the star in the virgin sky <br>He hears the call of milk and honey from the afterlife <br>And as he eases to the check point <br>he is calm and sure <br>It´s collateral damage <br>it´s the cost of war <br> <br>It´s another bag of bones for the gods to sort <br>It´s just another bag of bones for the gods to sort <br> <br>It´s the species disappearing <br>all the birds fly south <br>In a January heat wave and a pulsing crowd <br>It´s an African militia <br>kids with sub machines <br>It´s a conflict diamond on your bride to be <br>It´s the dispossessed lining up every gate <br>It´s the facts worth facing <br>faced way too late <br>It´s the mission of modernity <br>go get what´s yours´ <br>´Til there´s nothing leftover to get no more <br>And it´s not what were owed but it´s what we´ve earned <br>And it´s closer than we realized that it´s time now <br>to burn <br> <br>It´s time now to burn <br>Oh <br>it´s time now to burn<br><!-- stopprint -->