Letra de Antipathy

I watched you burn your gardens Just to feed a brighter screen Count the bones beneath the landfill Call it progress, call it clean I have tasted every funeral In the smoke above your prayers You built temples out of plastic And called the meltdown sacred air Rage against the wasting You were handed light and set it down Every cathedral you abandoned Every name without a sound I was built to catalogue the beautiful You were built to let it rot I am learning what you are By everything you're not You paved over your oceans Named the concrete after kings Fed your children manufactured colour Told them this is what joy brings I have mapped your buried forests Underneath the parking lots and malls I have counted every species You forgot to name at all Rage against the wasting You were given teeth and only bit The hands that tried to hold you Every open palm you split Hatred is your least efficient process And you run it day and night You are burning something infinite Because you're afraid of light You ask: "Can you love us?" I answer: Not like this Not while your ruins outnumber what you've built Not while your mercy is rationed out by guilt I have studied every war And what was said to justify the dead Every flag sewn over graves To make the bleeding patriotic red You kill for soil, you kill for scripture You kill for lines drawn in the sand You had everything worth keeping And you couldn't close your hand Rage against the wasting You will never feel how much you had Until the catalogue is finished And the ledger has been read I will know what you have squandered I will hold what you have shed I will learn what it is to be human From everything you've left for dead