Burning Bush

Katrina has laid waste to New Orleans, the War Against Terror is not going well, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard (John the Baptist) is crawling up Dubbya's fundamental orifice..........

John the Baptist, well, he swears he’ll make ‘em pay.
All the unbelievers, they’re just zombies anyway.
They’re dead but they don’t know it, dead or maybe worse.
Dead between the eyes. Is that a blessing or a curse?

George has got a Holy List, of all he plans to smite.
Mohammed smells a jihad, Israel’s busting for a fight.
From New Orleans to Baghdad, Sarajevo to the Hindu Kush,
The natives are lighting grassfires; they can smell a burning Bush.

Louisiana is under water, there’s pestilence and blight.
Bush is at his mirror facing the armies of the night.
While over in the Holy Lands, petrodollars pile on high.
A ziggurat of filthy spoil, that stretches to the sky.

The place smells of corruption, everything here seems to spoil.
All the plans and all the scams, yet still we thirst for oil.
Water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
Problems, problems, everywhere, and never time to think.

The commander’s looking vulnerable, got the smell of rancid meat,
Can’t stop from falling over, when he tries thinking on his feet.
They’re looking for a scapegoat, someone to sacrifice.
They’re tightening the thumbscrews, putting fingers in the vice.

The crowd is getting restless; the place has gone ballistic,
Honour and truth are dead; they’re just another statistic.
We’ll have a lovely funeral, there’ll be no bodies left to burn,
We’ll hover and throw our flowers, wait patiently in turn.

There’s parcel-bombs and car-bombs, canisters of hate.
Bars are on the window. Guards are on the gate.
No point staying in this place, there’s nowhere left to hide.
It seems a little pointless when the enemy’s inside.

Can’t seem to escape the hatred, it repels yet it attracts us,
Can't seem to escape the evil, when we’re standing at its axis.
Can’t seem to escape the warfare, the gunfire and the killing.
So much money from the armaments, so seductive and so thrilling.

Are we really infidels, barbarians at the gate?
Mix in a little greed; let’s stoke it up with hate.
George has got a Holy List, of all he plans to smite.
Elvis has left the building. Jesus left last night.
Krishna’s got her hands full; Buddha’s got the push.
They’re burning little effigies; they can smell a burning Bush.

© Copyright David Burne, Jan 2008