it’s a pock-marked landscape and victory is claimed
no-one really wins among those who play this game
I see the suffering never ends, it will continue on
since religion will still be there, even when capitalism has won

and they call it democracy reigning supreme
and exerting it’s power over those lowly beings
and what of the people at the heart of it all
the people whose lives have nothing in store

I know very little about where we’re going or have been
but the human spirit is alive, the human being
and religion are the roots of all evil I know
religion causes more suffering than any wanton foe
because foes are all based on differing ideals
and on man’s insecurity in the realm of the free

and free we are to express what we say
but that hasn’t changed the beauty of the day
the beauty of the night or the life that we lead
and what is it for us to say who we have freed
and under what circumstance their lives may be better
because the human race is just an animal race
no matter what we claim to be

and this super power in which I don’t believe
it’s exerting its force on everything I see
and doesn’t represent what you or I think
only corporate profit and a stymied power to think

no, nothing’s changing,
we might have won a war

but I’m still glad I voted for Gore.