justifications of the selfish

We make every excuse to justify our selfish actions
Why we rob and kill to fill  our own satisfaction
Why are entire lives end up driven by greed
When we already have everything we need
And the mis-fortunate go to sleep in filth
While we toss and turn in our sheets of silk
We look up to men who are breaking our nation slowly
And turn our nose at the man who stole just to buy groceries
We build monuments dedicated to the men who should be blamed
And ignore the woman walking to and from work in the rain
We shake our heads at the girl selling her self to feed her kids
But we would hate to be corrected about the way we live
We would rather dig around in other peoples mail
Then to admit our mistakes we swore we would'nt tell
We regard God as a light bulb just so we can flip the switch
And turn Him on or off just as we see fit
Our technology has become our Baal which we give our praise
We extract our conscience and lock it down in a cage
So we can be free from the laws of morality
So we can go through life living wrong so casually