More and more there is this animal
Looking out through my eyes
At all the traffic on the road to nowhere

At all the shiny stuff around to buy
At all the wires in the air
At all the people shopping

For the same blank stare
At america the drastic
That isolated geographic

That's become infested with millionaires

When you grow up surrounded

By willful ignorance
You have to believe
Mercy has its own country

And that it's round and borderless
And then you have to grow wings
And rise above it all

Like there
Where that hawk is circling
Above that strip mall


More and more there is this animal
Looking out through my eyes

Seeing that animals only take from this world
What they need to survive
But she is prowling through all the religions of men

Seeing that time and time and time again
Their gods have made them
Special and above

Nature's law
And the respect thereof


And I think when you grow up surrounded
By willful ignorance
You have to believe that mercy has its own country

And that it's round and borderless
And then you just grow wings
And rise above it all

Like there where that hawk is circling
Above that strip mall


Ask any eco-system
Harm here is harm there
And there and there

And aggression begets aggression
It's a very simple lesson
That long preceded any king of heaven

And there's this brutal imperial power
That my passport says I represent
But it will never represent where my heart lives

Only vaguely where it went

Cuz I know when you grow up surrounded

By willful ignorance
You learn that mercy has its own country
And that it's round and borderless

And then you just grow wings
And rise above it all
Like there

Where that hawk is circling
Above that strip mall