coming of age during the plague
  of reagan and bush
  watching capitalism gun down democracy
  it had this funny effect on me
  i guess
    i am cancer
  i am HIV
  and i'm down at the blue jesus
  blue cross hospital
  just lookin' up from my pillow
  feeling blessed
    and the mighty multinationals
  have monopolized the oxygen
  so it's as easy as breathing
  for us all to participate
    yes they're buying and selling
  off shares of air
  and you know it's all around you
  but it's hard to point and say "there"
  so you just sit on your hands
  and quietly contemplate
    your next bold move
  the next thing you're gonna need to prove
  to yourself
    what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
  to make machines that are disposable
  and sell them to seagulls flying in circles
  around one big right wing
    yes, the left wing was broken long ago
  by the slingshot of cointelpro
  and now it's so hard to have faith in
  anything
    especially your next bold move
  or the next thing you're gonna need to prove
  to yourself
    you want to track each trickle
  back to its source
  and then scream up the faucet
  'til your face is hoarse
  cuz you're surrounded by a world's worth
  of things you just can't excuse
    but you've got the hard cough of a chain smoker
  and you're at the arctic circle playing strip poker
  and it's getting colder and colder
  everytime you lose
    so go ahead
  make your next bold move
  tell us
  what's the next thing you're gonna need to prove
  to yourself