Mankind Rules

I obeyed mankind's rules
Played nice as they ruined the earth
Each year they proclaimed triumph
As the planet rumbled on
Beneath our very toes

Wherever mankind rules
The rest of life changes
All sinks under concrete and dust
The staples of progress on it's way

Obeyed the rules of mankind
Watched as millions of children died
Starved while food rotted in restaurant trash
Withered in dehydration as lakes went dry
From oil wells and fucking tar sands

Wherever mankind rules
Life withers with the change
We have respect only for the dead
The living we kill off or relocate
In the name of progress