Poison is bubbling
Beneath your dreamhome
Buried there years before


Kid runs in crying
From playing in the garden

"Mommy, I burned my hands!"

"What's making our eyes so itchy?"

"Don't rub 'em-they'll swell up."

Oh Oh Oh Oh

It's the big waste dump
Oh, yeah


We built your ticky-tacky houses
On landfill soil
To cover up a gift

We left you years before

Of toxic chemicals

And leaking gas
Just dig a little while,
You'll find our acid baths


Cesspools
In Eden

Oozing away:

Groundwater's poisoned

Air stings like hell
The lines for doctors grow long


Over martinis
The company laughs
"We don't owe you one damn thing."


But what about all these fainting spells?
How'd you like a lick

From my open sores

And Oh:.Oh Oh Oh -

Why are our babies stillborn?

A storage tank's leaking

It's about to explode
Why evacuate
When you can watch the fun


Nothing happens here
Get out the lawn chairs

We'll drink pink lemonade
And watch Martinez burn


Cesspools
In Eden
Oozing away

Cesspools in Eden
Leak by the day


The land we sold you
Is right atop our acid pits
We fill them by the truckload

In the dead of night

There's thousands more toxic

Tips of the iceberg
We pay a little bribe
Or we just don't report them


And see what you get-
Cesspools

In Eden
In Eden
No accident-

Just a little of our greed-fueled negligence

So you've found the proof why
Your cancer rate's shot up
But whatcha gonna do

When we've got all the cards

Times Beach, Rocky Flats,
Love C!@#^ & Bhopal
Merry Christmas, hostages

From the folks who care

Cesspools in Eden
Oozing away
Cesspools in Eden

Leak by the day
Cesspools in Eden
Have a nice day