A Plague On All Our Houses

It seems that Mother Nature has decided that its time To remind us that our planet is only borrowed for a while As a plague on all our houses brings the world down to its knees We contemplate our shared fragility Our keyboards give a voice to almost everyone it seems But far too many love to push their hatred on our screens So many flaws of mankind stand so proudly on parade And vice pretends it's virtue, as it signals its charade A split from left to right is where the straw man reigns supreme Confirmation bias is the only thing that's seen As validation for a stance made over shaky ground Where businesses and statues are pulled down Our world is one where rational and reason And inconvenient truths are seen as treason And cherry picked opinions flow like water they can't hold Too many love pretending that they know more than they know Conspiracies abound in this misinformation age Assertions pose as facts, which lie forgotten in the shade And if your common sense prevents you travelling down this road You'll know the emperor's there without his clothes We claim that our democracy is something we hold dear But then we pick and choose the votes to which we will adhere And the media fuelled hatred that just goes from bad to worse Makes all our high tech progress seem a well-intentioned curse Our world is one where rational and reason And inconvenient truths are seen as treason And cherry picked opinions pass for wisdom from on high A plague on all our houses can't begin to stem the tide Our world is one where rational and reason And inconvenient truths are seen as treason And cherry picked opinions flow like water they can't hold A plague on all our houses has begun to take its toll A plague on all our houses should have unified us all A plague on all our houses hasn't unified at all A plague on all our houses where the world begins to stall