Destruction Is Cheaper Than Order 2

Destruction Is Cheaper Than Order [Intro — chanting, almost whispered, growing] RUIN! RUIN! CHEAPER! CHEAPER! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! (heating season) [Verse 1: male voice] It’s easier to govern through ruin Than to maintain order without ruin. It’s more profitable, And it needs no faith. This has long been a fact — No one is embarrassed by anything. The market itself is run by bureaucracy. [after the verse — chanting] SIMPLER! SIMPLER! WITHOUT ORDER! WITHOUT ORDER! [Chorus: female voice] Destruction is cheaper than order! Destruction is far more profitable! Destruction is cheaper than order — A fire instead of disposal! Check and mate, with a knight’s move, Isn’t that so, gentlemen? FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! CHECK AND MATE! CHECK AND MATE! ISN’T THAT SO, GENTLEMEN?! [Verse 2: male voice] A warehouse burns down — and no accounting is needed, Weapons disposal doesn’t count. The warehouse is the country, the country is a warehouse, Here’s the treasure! Life by the hearth is good, they say. While the fire takes the scrap on credit, And the warehouse pays — that’s the law. Covered in ash. [after the verse — chanting] WAREHOUSE — COUNTRY! COUNTRY — WAREHOUSE! FIRE ON CREDIT! FIRE ON CREDIT! (heating season) [Chorus: female voice] Destruction is cheaper than order! Destruction is far more profitable! Destruction is cheaper than order — A fire instead of disposal! Check and mate, with a knight’s move, Isn’t that so, gentlemen? FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! CHECK AND MATE! CHECK AND MATE! ISN’T THAT SO, GENTLEMEN?! [Verse 3: male voice] Let’s turn the picture around: the food market. (GEOPOLITICUS BUREAUCRATUS!) Competitive struggle — without any delays. [backing vocals: A fountain of batons!] They throw waste at each other; disposal is an expensive science, Rotten vegetables fly at the neighbor from the doorstep. Torn socks — on credit, Bones — into DEBT, fish guts — as collateral. Here are our peppers, here are our fruits. Whoever didn’t make it — is late, Fire will write it all off — so the market told us. [after the verse — rhythmic chanting, like a market shout] ROTTEN! TORN! BONES! FISH! CREDIT! DEBT! COLLATERAL! WHOEVER DIDN’T MAKE IT — IS LATE! FIRE WILL WRITE IT ALL OFF! SO THE MARKET TOLD US! [Bridge: in chorus] Check and mate — with a knight’s move, Isn’t that so, gentlemen? Destruction is cheaper than order — This is a fact, this is forever. [bridge — chanting, slowly and harshly] CHECK AND MATE! WITH A KNIGHT’S MOVE! ISN’T THAT SO, GENTLEMEN?! FOREVER! FOREVER! [Chorus: female voice] Destruction is cheaper than order! Destruction is far more profitable! Destruction is cheaper than order — A fire instead of disposal! Check and mate, with a knight’s move, Isn’t that so, gentlemen? FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! CHECK AND MATE! CHECK AND MATE! ISN’T THAT SO, GENTLEMEN?! [Outro: male voice] Destruction is cheaper than order… A fire instead of disposal… [whispered] War will write it all off — it breathes fire. Check and mate, with a knight’s move, Isn’t that so, gentlemen? FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! (heating season) [almost shouting, then cut off abruptly] [Coda: male voice, almost whispered, then abruptly] Market genes. That sorted everything out. We burn the old — From the ashes we mold the new. Profit and beauty — Neither evolution nor development. [pause] How do you like that discovery? What is coming? Huh? Global warming? Fire will write it all off — The market sorted it out. Shadows of bureaucracy. They solve all problems. [cut off abruptly]