Poison is bubbling
  Beneath your dreamhome
  Buried there years before
    Kid runs in crying
  From playing in the garden
  "Mommy, I burned my hands!"
    "What's making our eyes so itchy?"
  "Don't rub 'em-they'll swell up."
    Oh Oh Oh Oh
  It's the big waste dump
  Oh, yeah
    We built your ticky-tacky houses
  On landfill soil
  To cover up a gift
  We left you years before
    Of toxic chemicals
  And leaking gas
  Just dig a little while,
  You'll find our acid baths
    Cesspools
  In Eden
  Oozing away:
    Groundwater's poisoned
  Air stings like hell
  The lines for doctors grow long
    Over martinis
  The company laughs
  "We don't owe you one damn thing."
    But what about all these fainting spells?
  How'd you like a lick
  From my open sores
    And Oh:.Oh Oh Oh -
  Why are our babies stillborn?
    A storage tank's leaking
  It's about to explode
  Why evacuate
  When you can watch the fun
    Nothing happens here
  Get out the lawn chairs
  We'll drink pink lemonade
  And watch Martinez burn
    Cesspools
  In Eden
  Oozing away
  Cesspools in Eden
  Leak by the day
    The land we sold you
  Is right atop our acid pits
  We fill them by the truckload
  In the dead of night
    There's thousands more toxic
  Tips of the iceberg
  We pay a little bribe
  Or we just don't report them
    And see what you get-
  Cesspools
  In Eden
  In Eden
  No accident-
  Just a little of our greed-fueled negligence
    So you've found the proof why
  Your cancer rate's shot up
  But whatcha gonna do
  When we've got all the cards
    Times Beach, Rocky Flats,
  Love Canal & Bhopal
  Merry Christmas, hostages
  From the folks who care
    Cesspools in Eden
  Oozing away
  Cesspools in Eden
  Leak by the day
  Cesspools in Eden
  Have a nice day