James Trevor Lucier III - Destruction of the Species Lyrics

Long ago
On the coast
A whole lot of people became ghosts
They were all so close
So close to building the perfect homes
They should have built them out of stone

There were a lot of things
That these people they did need but they didn't bring
They put their frog inside the pot
Forgot they turned up the heat

When your child's choking on the water that you brought to boil
Will you think back on an ancestor's choice to root down in this soil
Not every choice a monkey makes is destined to be great
It would be wise to think on this
Let's learn from our mistakes

It's what makes our species great

If you call yourself a human you profess your fatal flaw
The master's agenda has you festered in a state of shock and awe
We are all but animals from the category ape
And just like termites create air conditioning or bacterium decide the fates

Our kind hungers for technology
We just cannot satiate
Our sentience is manifest in our job to perpetuate
A long tired line of ideas rooted in long ago in the new things that we build and all the new places that we go
All the choices that we make Everything we have to show
In everything we already chose and all the new things that we know
In our ignorance of the ocean
In our ignorance of the earth
In our ignorance of exactly what it is that our species worth
The future of our species is to end up in the zoos
If were lucky they'll have a breeding program or two
Dont think this is epochs down the line
Give our devil its due
This could happen in our domain
This could happen to you

From the wasteland that was the East Coast
All the way to Arizona Bay
This land was your land once but it is my land today

My name is the death of the entire human race
I am Vishnu, I am Allah
I'm Walmart, I am Yahweh
Your tribe would have been better off if you'd just gone and explored space
But I've got say this discord and this war to me tastes great

It's just how your species tastes

So that's how
The west was lost
That's how North America
Ate itself with shopping malls

Collect calls
Comin into Heaven up from Hell
They're asking are you doing well

Is there any way to go back
To the earth that we destroyed
Is there any way I could go back to being an employed well-oiled, precision-fitted, piece of the Machine I know there's not but if there was,

I'd jump at the chance
To go back to our home world and rejoin Nature's dance

You've heard me up until this point, my fingers snap you wake from your dream

You realize you are just a customer

YOU ARE NOT THE ENDS
YOU ARE THE MEANS

WE ARE JUST A LIVING ENGINE AND YOU

ARE LIFE THAT EATS LIFE

WE ARE A HERD ANIMAL AND THAT'S WHY OUR EYES HAVE WHITES, BUT IF WE'RE REALIZING THAT A RISING TIDE CAN RAISE ALL BOATS

AND IF WE BREAK DOWN THE DAMNS THEY'VE BUILT, AND WE CROSS OVER ALL THE MOATS, AND WE BUILD OUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IN A PRIMAL SIMPLE WAY

We've got a chance at never having to drown in
Arizona Bay and if there's gunna be a time you make a change, make that day today

All we have to do to stop it
All we have to do to stop it
All we have to do to stop it

Is stop