another fatal shooting down this road, come one and all to see
who's the killer, who'd he kill? just hope he doesn't come for me
either way i say, who cares? i only came to stir the heat
of this here bonfire with my bic and gasoline

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 some neo-nazis hopeless on the way

and i'm like "holy mountain, hear us shoutin'
oh my god i hope that i'ma saved
but 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 vermilions in the stream of life perceived among the grain are always floorboards in the rain

well the more i think i understand, the less i really know
that's the pain of being human, still i'm glad my thumbs oppose
so that i can push more buttons and take pictures of my flesh exposed and send them out to other people's phones

then i'm like "holy mountain, hear us drownin'
oh my god i hope that i'ma saved
but most of all i hope i get my raise"

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

well the more i think about these facts, the more i wanna cry
when every good and poor decision fits the same inside a needle's eye,
it almost seems like i could turn the pages back, white-out in hand,
and change all of these hadn'ts into hads...

well thank my stars i made it this far to illuminate at last
throw confetti from your rooftops, turn your problems into plans
i don't wanna die, don't have the time, there's still too many days to find
another way this species could advance

and i'm like "holy mountain, you gonna teach me anything?
cause' oh my god i hope that i'ma saved
but most of all i hope that you'll explain"