living in the greenhouse growing crops that we can't eat  making money out of poverty turning forests into meat  we got our fingers on the trigger of some suicidal gun  the population's getting bigger underneath a dying sun  there's a fire in the furnace and there's nothing left to burn  buried waste has reached the surface is there nothing left to learn?    every day ozone getting layered every way life is getting worse  everybody's lung is getting cancer everyone has something more to lose  every country armies are rising every gene splitting into two  every breath monoxide getting stronger every sea whales are beached    economies are growing subsistence life is dead  we can't sustain this growth and things are coming to a head  we gotta learn to climb down the ladder of success  with two feet on the ground we gotta clean up all this mess  there's a fire in the furnace and there's nothing left to burn  buried waste has reached the surface is there nothing left to learn?    every life extinction is forever every town riots in the streets  every sky greenhouse is affecting every tree dying in the breeze  every plant chemical pollution every song relying on the beat  every lake water getting shorter every heart aching for release    surviving in a world of mass production we must all consume to live  our working lives to give and join the unemployment lines  when confidence is low    a man must try to sell his labour to the highest bid  keep his anger hid and try not to get pulled into  the vicious undertow    but even in the middle classes they fall into that hole  aspiring to that goal of rising from the yoke of  such an exploitative state    consume to live