Why Did You Separate Me From the Earth?

Why did you separate me from the Earth?

Oh my God

Why did you separate me from the Earth?

My Father

You drew lines mile high in steel or nuclear

The forests of Borneo, and white water in your mouth

I don't want your future, and I'll never return

I'll be born into the past

I'm never, never comin' home

Why did you separate me, me from the Earth?

What did you stand to gain?

Why did you separate me from the Earth?

(Me, me from the Earth)

The rotten bodies threaded gold

The pitch of hair and sticky meat

The sea life cut with plastic

A white cross gilded gold

A case of white doves layin' in the boilin' snow

A sharp knife of concrete

The blue line of tuna's throat

And I don't want your future

I'm never, never comin' home

I don't want your future, I'll be born before your born

Why did you separate me, me from the Earth?

What did you have to gain?

Why did you separate me from the Earth?

What did you have to gain?

Why did you separate me from the Earth

From the Earth, from the Earth, from the Earth?

What did you have to gain?