New Model Army - All Consuming Fire lyrics

'Cause the rear rises up from the corporate slab All proud and flawless for you "Hello, boy," she says and the pack dogs gather Slobbering around at her heels And the women all try to stretch their faces Trying to look more like her And then chanting her name They hurl themselves In, into the all-consuming fire So onwards to the peace to end all peaces, yeah Onward to Midas' hole Where the treasures of the world reproduce themselves Like a hoard of cancerous cells You can track the spread of the virus By the news reader's colorful attire Let's go there now, reporting live From the chaos scenes In the all-consuming fire So save us from these justifications When every one of them is a lie Pax Americana 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's still no word, there's still no word There's still no word from the front And a billion hungry eyes they are watching us From beyond the citadel walls We found a thousand ways to lay waste to the planet And we're gonna use them all Yeah, culture in two dimensions Is all that we require, because it burns so well It burns so well in the all-consuming fire The captain abandoned ship years ago But nobody thought to inquire And so the band plays on, we sail gently west Into the all-consuming fire