There's a fatal shooting down this road, come one and all to see
Who's the killer, who's the killed? I hope he doesn't come for me
Just to say the least, who cares? I only came to stir the heat
Of this here kill zone with more stinking potpourri

And after John Doe's swept away and all his guts are in the trash
we'll go home with empty hands until we warm them for the next attack
And sharpen up our pitchforks lined with the blood from yesterday,
We'll send those Neo-Nazis hopeless on the way

Oh, holy mountain, hear me drowning
Oh my god I hope that I'ma saved
Most of all I hope that you'll explain

Why's this man here bein' spit at? Why's that woman being raped?
They've done nothing to deserve it,
(Guess that's why they get it all the same)
The innocent exceptions in the stream of life perceived among the grain
Are always floorboards in the rain

And the more I think I know it all, the less I understand
That's the pain of being human, still I'm glad I have my hands
So that i can push more buttons and take pictures of my fleshy glands
And send them off to other people's hands

Oh, holy mountain, hear me shouting
Oh my god I hope that I'ma saved
Most of all I hope that you'll explain

Oh, and it seems humanity's uncurable disease is just what keep us goin' on,
So if you stiff yourself undoubtedly some devil's gonna take those keys and run
Oh run, but I guess when all is said and done, we're all just hopes and dreams a' wedded to the sun

But the more I think about my past, the more i wanna cry
'Cause every good and poor decision fits the same inside my land-locked mind
It almost seems like I could turn the pages back, white-out in hand,
And change all of these hadn't's into had's...

Well thank my stars I made it this far to illuminate at last
'Cause every future day's a second chance to turn my problems into plans
Don't wanna die, don't have the time, there's still too many ways to find
Another way this planet could advance

Oh honey now, "holy mountain, you gonna teach me something?
Cause' oh my god I hope that I'ma saved
But most of all I hope that you'll explain"