nominee for song of the year thus far

...and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart

the only time i will ever post poetry on my blog is when i really like a song's lyrics. these i like - listen and read along:

Random lost souls have asked me
What's the future of Rock' n' Roll?"
I say "I don't know, does it matter?"

This and that scene,
they sound all the same to me
neither much worse nor much better.

We're so fucked these days
we don't know who to hate and who to praise
consider that suffering and pain

When we're so privileged, a fact
we forget about as
we go whinging all over the place.

How they laughed as we shoveled the ashes
wrath hath soured.
Blood and death, we will pay back the debt
of this candy store of ours.

Look at those cunts on MTV
with cars and cribs and rings and shit.
Is that what being celebrity means?

Look boys and girls, heres BBC.
See corpses, rapes, and amputees.
What do you think now of the American dream?

And our soccer moms and dads who raised
us brats on those TV ads
I know that they sleep at night.

Their conscience is intact.
They've convinced themselves of that,
giving money to Jesus fucking H. Christ.

How they laugh as we shoveled the ashes
of the twin towers.
Blood and death, we will pay back the debt
of this candy store of ours.