Strip mining was born man's desire  For maximum gain from minimum strain  Using water cannons they washed away  Entire mountainsides that are just desert today    The deluge lasted for too many years  So long ago, but even now it appears  The floods cut the ground like a sacrificial knife  Now just gravel and dust, three can never be life    Mountains that stood, the waves erased  Man disfigured, destroyed the earth's face  Only infertile sand, like the dot from a bleed  Annihilated, taken by greed    (Chorus)  Maceration - the constant erosion  Total immersion - They raped the Land  Massive infusion - man's inclination  Hydraulic destruction - They raped the Land    The unholy baptism  A lymph unstoppable  Mother Nature lies violated  Used against herself  The retrogradation  Soil wearing away  MAnkind is responsible  For mass decay    (Solo: Ron)    (Chorus)    Water is lifegiving fluid  It is the cause of revolution  And can recreate  Man, whose instinctive nature is evil  Puts limits on himself  But is always too late  Earth, our only terra firma  Invincibly cnstructed  Both of shale and slate  Together, it seems  That man is weakest  But still he's had the power granted to abate    the debasement of our environment  Continues today in different ways  Two steps too far it seems we've gone  Full circle now, a sick perversion    (Solo: Brett)    Surrounding weakened, a quick decline  Demoralized, the last in line  Now defeated, the earth rebels  The atmosphere a living hell    (Chorus)