Must be something in the Water

Must be something in the water
Makes the goats slap horns
Uproots the vegetation
Has rich men screaming more! more!

Must be something in the water
Drains the blood from our bodies
Gives the skin a toxic shine
Has toddlers wailing mine! mine!

What would cause good men
To choose the rifle before the book
What would compel them to erase the landscape
To erect monuments to soft drinks

Must be something in the water
Creates a foggy film over young eyes
Allows men to poison their brothers
To keep their mothers pacified

Must be something in the water
Programs the fish to sprout legs
Gives bread a rubber consistency
Has the living strutting dead

Must be something in the water
That stirs our organs to hate
All that frees us
Good foods art our families

When we see a star and bide
Our time discussing all the reasons
Why we'll never reach it
We vomit tenderness from our spines

While prejudice goes right to our thighs
Most forget to sing forget to laugh
Forget to question why
Learn to fear instinct and trust metal signs

Must be something in the water
When strangers convince us to
Believe in borders and monopolies
To pay for the worthless the ephemeral

To misplace the priceless under sofas
Leave homeless children in the gutters
With 4 empty rooms in our chambers
Mindfulness is swept like crumbs off dinner tables

Plastic vices guide us to a new zoology
We cower at assembly line boogie monsters
The new religion starves us into ecstasy
Mnemonic demonic devices divide us

Must be something thats inside us
Where comics make more sense than senators
When conformity is the only rebellion
When revenge sounds like a viable option

When Commercials Technology Armed Forces
Pose as the modern holy trinity
Must be something in the water
That stops us from crossing the bridge to Divinity