While the blue ball seeps infection
dismayed we sit and watch
and the racial tension index

rises up another notch
As we wait for our messiah
we're too slow to realize

that the prophets of deliverance
don't wear suits and power ties


When the puppets of corruption
give the sermon on the mount
They preach of loaves and fishes

but there's less each time we count

Chorus:

Everywhere a crisis, one more chaotic seed
when the helpless people multiply
confusion starts to breed

with their magnets on the needle
drunken leaders hold our compass in the air
and there's crisis everywhere


Each night we seek asylum
in our cubicles of fear

our violence in vicarious
as the evening news appears
every woman needs a can of mace

every doorway needs a lock
'till the world's just one big neighborhood
with crack on every block


There's gunfire in the alley
a kid got shot right off his bike

when they called up 911
the operators were on strike


Chorus

No eucalyptus for the Koala Bear

The ozone dies and sunspots flare
Riverwater filled with lead
voices in some hermit's head

lawyers thieving festivals
abductions by terrestrials
a hepatitis outbreak in the mall

this fall

Everywhere a crisis, one more chaotic seed

when the helpless people multiply
confusion starts to breed
over catatonic minion

drunken leaders hold our compass in the air
and there's crisis everywhere