You know they say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
So vengeful and Mother Earth has been done wrong
And I think she's sick, yo she's pukin' up lava
Her nerves tremble along fault lines
Ready to drop an entire city of guilt that's been forced upon her
We build these towers of Babylon and feel remorse for nada
The momma divorced the father, the children are droppin blotter
The rich get richer, poverty's hot under the collar
Takin' prayer outta schools and we tryin to raise scholars
Creationism verses the Theory of Evolution
Air, water, land, mind, body & soul pollution
Kids steppin on landmines from wars we all losin'
We chasin' false idols and racin' from our bibles
The golden rule, the youth are becoming more suicidal
Who teaches of you and I do, no wonder they want to fight you
Raised by hypocrites you feel lied to

Graffiti the land with skyscrapers
Graffiti the sky with aeroplanes and satellites
Graffiti the mind of children with your man-made law
Graffiti the world I saw the writing on the wall

We got ABC, NBC, MTV, TNT, The BBC, DVD, VHS, DSL
A&E, XTC, MP3, FCC, THC, NRA, GOP, ADD
The fight for free speech, lack of responsibility
Thieves in positions of power, internet pornography
Guns in the hope for fear that the next knock at the door could be death
The terrorists are in the White House and overseas
Racists, separatists, vicious bullish-ious
Buddhist, the Hindus, the Muslims, the Christians
Could it be our biggest barrier is language
Or his oil that imported that one would inflict anguish
So cars could deplete the ozone on highways
That stretch across the land where Indians once raised
Families are in denial, the world is afraid
And you say there's no more slaves

Graffiti the land with skyscrapers
Graffiti the sky with aeroplanes and satellites
Graffiti the mind of children with your man-made law
Graffiti the world I saw the writing on the wall

We're addicted to planes, trains and automobiles
We're addicted to addiction, we dig living in fiction
For money, power, respect, the army gotta go kill
They're under contract so let the blood spill
Sorta morbid ain't it? This picture that I just painted
It's an epiphany I had I realized just how tainted
Or thinkin really is when in New York when I saw
A teenager bein' arrested for tagging a fuckin' wall

Graffiti the land with skyscrapers
Graffiti the sky with aeroplanes and satellites
Graffiti the mind of children with your man-made law
Graffiti the world I saw the writing on the wall.
I saw the writing on the wall.

Graffiti the land with skyscrapers
Graffiti the sky with aeroplanes and satellites
Graffiti the mind of children with your man-made law
Graffiti the world I saw the writing on the wall

Graffiti the land with skyscrapers
Graffiti the sky with aeroplanes and satellites
Graffiti the mind of children with your man-made law
Graffiti the world I saw the writing on the wall


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    Racists, separatists, vicious bullish-ious Shouldn't this be "Racists, Separatists, vicious militias" ?

    pj19on November 01, 2006   Link

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