Inferno

Midway through life, I realized I went astray
 From things that matter most, a pain that won't cease
 Lost in the Dark Wood of Error every day
 Need to witness hell before I know true peace
 Must embrace darkness to reach enlightenment
 Need to know the things that no one cares to see
 The first ring of hell, I hear cries of torment
 Millions scream in anguish, silenced by the heat
 Never cared for what animals underwent
 The second circle brings a storm of skinned meat
 What's left of people who wore leather and mink
 Women with make-up dragged to labs by their feet
 Ring number three a swamp of garbage I sink
 Fat slobs live below, they ate nothing but shit
 A three headed hog eats lard and blood he drinks
 In the fourth circle, those who wasted their wit
 Disrupting creatures, tomfoolery to sell
 Now demons taunt them, starve them for stupid tricks
 An eye for an eye
 Stripped down of your rights
 You make think you're innocent
 But ignorance makes you a suspect
 Greed and gluttony
 Fraud and treachery
 You may think you're better than this
 Arrogance, a guilty verdict
 I descend on a marsh, the fifth ring of hell
 Where violent morons wage war with each other
 They inflicted rage on those who could not tell
 And in the sixth ring those who lived to smother
 Animals for speculation, playing God
 Cut open, tested on a burning alter
 In the seventh circle, a river of blood
 Flows to the burning sands where bulldozers run
 Over the ones who tore down forests with grudge
 Getting close now, circle eight, Bolgias I shun
 Where government agencies are sealed inside
 Ignored animals while corrupt deed s were done
 Who lies within the ninth ring after they die?
 Forever frozen in the lake Cocytus
 Where Satan himself the Lord of Sin resides
 Menacing heads above the ice twitch and fuss
 Slayers of innocence by religious rit's
 No virgins wait here, just gashed throats, blood and pus
 Men struggle to breathe, such a horrendous sight
 I recognize Tony Hayward from BP
 Smash his face down into the oil and ice
 Approaching the center and what do I see?
 The ones who made billions in life butchering
 Can't cry about it now or their eyes will freeze
 I see Ronald, Wendy, and the Burger King
 Dangling from the mouths of Satan like cigars
 Below contorted CEOs suffering
 Arise from hell, once again beneath the stars
 Mount Purgatory, dawn of a brand new day
 Surrounded now by other penitent souls
 Begin the journey that will pave the light's way
 Through seven sins of nature I pay my tolls
 I am starved and beaten, branded on my chest
 I cleanse myself, now ready to reach the goal
 Travel the universe, meet the very best
 A flash of light reveals the meaning of life
 The vision comforts me, finally I rest
 I see farm animals roam fields without strife
 Horses without reigns wander wide open land
 Primates live in jungles, not under the knife
 I see nature sleep in peace, untouched by man
 Ocean creatures swim liberated and clean
 Melodic skies of birds, silent desert sands
 I see people shut down their deadly machines
 Religions join hands, end this conceited war
 A life worth living in a world so serene
 I fall back to earth, see who we really are
 I lie down on the dirt and stare at the stars