Why did you separate me from the earth?
Why did you separate me from the earth?
You drew lines miles 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 coming home
Why did you separate me, me from the earth?
What did you stand to gain?
Why did you separate me from the earth? (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
Laying in the boiling snow
A sharp knife of concrete
The blue line of tuna's throat
I'm never, never coming home
I'll be born before you're 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?