We used to be
And we believed
It's plain to see
Toxicology

From the devotional freakout
of Archbishop Beardmouth:
ChemOlympics! ChemOlympics!
Don't call it chemo
These toxins are for fun!
These altered states and altered bodies are telegenic holy relics

We used to be...
And we believed...
It's plain to see: toxicology

The common sense
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
Raped by events
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
Back in your trench
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
The games won't relent, won't relent

Culvert, truck-bonnet, crazed mob,
crowbars -
we're not going out like poor Muammar
Gollies next to eagles next to crosses
on the aprons of the ungiven tosses

We used to be...
And we believed...
It's plain to see: toxicology

The medals gleam
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
The nostrils steam
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
COPD
(doesn't matter, doesn't matter)
Google, Pepsi, epilepsy!

Doesn't matter.