So this is the thing This thing is a curse This thing's where I bottom out This thing really hurts This thing's an atonement For a thing that's not fair This is the deer in the forest This thing hangs in the air So let me get right on it And I won't use the words that you know This thing is forever now And this thing it won't go And this thing is in your nightmare And it's there when you wake And this thing it don't bargain This thing it won't wait This is Kurt Cobains shotgun And it's madder than that This is the place you never been to And there's no going back So this is the thing It's a mine in the sand It don't ask man's permission This thing walks 'cross your land And be under no illusion This thing's been coming a while Leaders still throwing coins at each other This thing got us on trial And no prayer will help us This is the penance we pay Perhaps now they'll listen This thing's here to stay First comes our blindness But then on comes the light This thing can bring down the circus Or force the planet to unite And this thing is our revolution We've been divided enough This thing will bring us all together This is sleight of hand love