Charles Bukowski - Putrefaction lyrics

Of late i've had this thought
That this country has gone backwards
4 or five decades
And that all the advancement
The good feeling of person toward
Person has been washed
Away and replaced by the same
Old bigotries
We have
More than ever the selfish wants of power
The disregard for the weak
The old the impoverished
The helpless

We are replacing want with war
Salvation with slavery

We have wasted the gains
We have become rapidly
Less

We have our Bomb it is our fear
Our damnation and our
Shame now
Something so sad has hold of us
That the breath
Leaves and we can't even
Cry