Deserts Without Mirages

The car is on fire and
there's no one at the wheel
And no one tries to
put on the brakes at all
We're trapped in the
belly of this sick machine
The radiator smoking,
there's no air to breathe
And no one tries to
put on the brakes at all One by one like stars
from the sky they fell
And everyone turned
their backs, wondering to themselves
I'm on a strange
journey I didn't choose to take
Where I'm going I
don't want to think
But no one tries to
put on the brakes at all Your final breath will
be an eastern wind
To blow through the
valley of death that we've carved in this land
We're accomplices all
It's all beyond our
control
We're so innocent when
the hammer falls
And nobody tries
Nobody tries
No one even fucking
tries!
Accelerating through
industrial haze
Past the death camps
and the marketplace we've lost our way
I hope we burn up in
the wreckage
Rather than live
another day
In vain in a world
without frontiers
We're served our just
desserts:
Just deserts, in
burning thirst
And no one tries to
put out the flames at all.