Everest

I watched them build an escalator

all the way up to Everest

Never thought we'd go so low

to try and get high

They cut the ribbon, posed for pictures,

the news started questions

The engineering cavalier

was one of a kind

but if you change the face,

of a sacred place,

that place, ain't that place

no more

If you think you can

sell tickets to the truth

what a shame, that place

ain't that place no more

I watched them sell an

ancient island to

the highest of bidders

the one who could yell

loudest of all

then they said that they

had had themselves

some kind of a vision

from a prophet of profit,

progress for all

but if you change the face,

of a sacred place,

that place, ain't that place

no more

If you think you can

sell tickets to the truth

what a shame, that place

ain't that place no more

No more, No more,

No more, No more.