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