If it don't suit me

I dated a smoker from Missoula

She was Christian

I could taste the mutual corruption when we were kissing

My roommates were in love

My apartment was a prison

I was stuck in between a rock and a hard decision

I wonder what she was thinking

When I went up and missing

I guess we'll never know because I left without a mention

It was teaching for me

And painful for her

Just another self-centered boy

Burn it all down if it don't suit me

You can salt the Earth and pollute the sea

They can make a man believe anything

But you cannot convince him he's wrong

Count the carcasses in the snow

Gone is the age of the buffalo

The pale-skinned dragon defends his hoard

Though he can never spend his gold

I was up North where it's cold as ice

Found me a tree that was old as Christ

Cut it down to build a rocking chair

And I rocked myself to sleep

Oil tankers in the Salish Sea

Dumping their filth in the pale blue green

No tears shed for the orca whale

I was told that it's him or me

Burn it all down if it don't suit me

You can salt the Earth and pollute the sea

They can make a man believe anything

But you cannot convince him he's wrong

Count the body parts in the stones

Overseas we will feed the crows

You can build a city on a hill

Or an empire out of bones

I was unfazed as the Congo cried

I remained cool as the Arctic fried

I was asleep as the Outback burned

But I woke for Notre-Dame

Squeeze my allies and break their legs

Melt the bifrost release the plague

the jangling keys of the Death Star sing from the waistband of a boy

So, burn it all down if it don't suit me

You can salt the Earth and pollute the sea

They can make a man believe anything

But you cannot convince him he's wrong

Bury your head in the Western sand