Killing Joke are an English post-punk band formed in October 1978 in Notting Hill, London, England; other sources report the band formed in early 1979. Founding members Jaz Coleman (vocals, keyboards) and Geordie Walker (guitars) have been the only constant members.
A key influence on industrial rock, their early music was described by critics Stephen Thomas Erlewine and John Dougan as "quasi-metal ... dancing to a tune of doom and gloom", which gradually evolved over the years, incorporating elements of electronic music, synthpop, gothic rock, and alternative rock, though always emphasising Coleman's "savagely strident vocals".
Finding modest commercial success, Killing Joke have influenced many later bands, such as Nirvana, Ministry, Amen, Lamb of God, Nine Inch Nails, Porcupine Tree, Napalm Death, Behemoth, Amebix, Big Black, Opeth, Murderdolls, Godflesh, Scorn, Hole, Dead by April, Marilyn Manson, Tool, Prong, Metallica, Franz Ferdinand, Primus, Jane's Addiction, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters, Faith No More, Nick Harper, Blacklist, Shihad, Pitchshifter, Das Oath, Rammstein, and Korn, all of whom have at some point cited some debt of gratitude to Killing Joke.
Love Like Blood is a German gothic rock/gothic metal band.
Its nucleus consists of Eysel brothers (Yorck-vocals, lyrics and Gunnar - bass). The band was active in the years 1989-2001 and is now on (indefinite) hiatus. Its early sound reminisces the style of The Fields of the Nephilim. They made their breakthrough with the 1992 album “An Irony of Fate”, which marked the debut of the English guitarist Mark Wheeler. This album showcased a transition to a more hard-rock-influenced style.
In the middle of the 1990s, Love Like Blood turned to Gothic metal with the album "Exposure".
On their 2000 album, "Enslaved + Condemned", Love Like Blood made a rendition of Youssou N'Dour & Neneh Cherry's song "Seven Seconds", giving the pop song a more ragged metal-oriented cover.
In January 2010 it was announced that Love Like Blood would be performing live for the "first and only" time since 1999 at the Twentieth Anniversary Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig.
Jeremy "Jaz" Coleman (born 26 February 1960, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England) is a musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer. He is notable for his vocal contributions to rock band Killing Joke. In addition, he is also currently the band's keyboardist and has composed orchestral and soundtrack pieces.
Coleman was born in Cheltenham to an English father and an Anglo-Indian mother of half-Bengali descent who are both school teachers. He studied piano and violin under Eric Coleridge, head of music for Cheltenham College, until the age of 17 and was a member of several cathedral choirs in England. In 1973, Jaz was awarded the Rex Watson Cup at the Cheltenham International Festival of Music. Jaz Coleman studied in Leipzig DDR in 1987 and Cairo Conservatoire in 1979 where he made an extensive study of Arabic quartertones. According to his own account, Coleman also studied international banking for three years in Switzerland and is an ordained priest, with a church in New Zealand.
Irgend jemand hat ... [5x]
Irgend jemand hat mir meinen Badge geklaut,
in mein Bier gepißt,
mich einen Popper genannt,
gesagt, ich wär' ein Christ.
Noise turns darker the moments pass
But the drums keep thundering in familiar way
Outside the legions multiply
By and by - you're still alive
Getting nowhere - can't find no way
'cos ego ego taking the fame
Discord dances discord earth
Harvest thanks didn't go quite right
Noise turns darker the moments pass
But the drums keep thundering in familiar way
Outside the legions multiply
By and by - i'm still alive
Idle toying, worship the whore,
Forbidden was bidden,
kiss turned to gnaw
Indolent minds, broken rules
The grey land is falling,
Laugh at the fools
We have Joy - We have Joy!
We was drunk, intoxicate
No time for doubt, no time, no late
I saw the laughing one - this was the West
he said "take your spear and puncture the flesh"
We have Joy! - We have Joy!
We was drunk, intoxicate
No time for doubt, no time, no late
Brandish the weapon, Sound out the din
We feeling red now - time to move in
We have Joy - We have Joy!
The atmosphere's strange
Out on the town
Music for pleasure
It's not music no more
Music to dance to
Music to move
This is music to march to
IT'S a war dance
A war dance
Look at the victim
Scrawled on the wall
You know the the reason
Outside the door
You got something
Nasty in your mind
Trying to get out
IT'S a war dance
A war dance
We walk round the pitch
Honesty is sick
Try to be honest
Look what you get
The food runs short
And then the money talks
One way out
YOUR PREMONITION IS CORRECT
A war dance
Across the sand under a crescent moon
In celebration of our feards
And rumours circulating in the street
The candle burns the world awaits
We ask is this some kind of victory?
Where is the dream, where is the sanity?
As crying echoes down the corridors
The child comes running to his mother's arms
And all the things I hold so dear to me
I love my wife, I love my family
Raise up your heads and voices
The promise of beyond
With courage face the moment
Remember who you are!
A frightened people losing dignity
The shadow of an island in their minds
While fools are bent on making history
With nothing gained, is this our destiny?
Solitude,solitude
We come into this world alone
and to this place we return again
Far away in a quiet place
Try to think of an open space
I watch my life flash before me
Remembered friends that i love so dearly
And while a veil obscures my vision
I surrender to the will of God
I found peace ,yes i found at last
All i see has been meant to be??
Down, down in the forest clearing
With a breeze blowing through the branches
And i breathe in and out so very slowly
It sends a shiver right down my spine
In the quiet i can come to terms with
all i've done and who i am
I turn and face the sun
Then all my troubles fall behind me like a shadow
In solitude
Solitude
Bleak are the hearts in summer, long wintertme
We are god children running, immortal child
Out on the chill horizon, shine morning stars
Configurations I'll remember herald one season always
Run, run, run, how we run
We cry like children
In wintergardens now.
Run, run, run, how we run
And play like children
In wintergardens now.
Cry for the pride in our wars, the tragedy
Lost in this blinding frenzy, all knowledge fades.
Crimes of humanity or courageous deeds?
No longer see injustice in self destruction always.
Visions of pna transforming, new heavens come
Eternal are the grey skies, gardens invert
Nightshades of Eden touch me, forever touch
No god has answered prayers here (except ourselves).
Run, run, run, how we run
We cry like children
In wintergardens now.
Run, run, run, how we run
And play like children
In wintergardens now.
Who told you how?
Who told you how?
In bleak and empty places we can watch from a greater distance
- the credulous delighting in every nation
Don't lose your sense of humour, entertain the wildest thoughts
We can walk for miles and miles without seeing anybody
Some country rare and blessed away from this confusion
No message for the masses only you and me
The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south
I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings!
Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth with me
All our friends and relatives fell for neatly packaged policies
And we shuddered at the headline, newsflash of the tensions in the Middle East
You know as well as I do detente can't last forever
Or overpopulation
Me? I'd rather watch
Peace of mind is my priority
The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south
I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings!
Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth with me
Facts and figures the clocks turn backwards
Facts and figures turn anticlockwise
Many signposts leading to the same place
I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice
Unspeakable!
Keep running 'cos it's nightmare time
Wvery direction leading to the same place
I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice
I wonder who chose the colour scheme it's very nice
Unspeakable!
The days I wonder, the nights I ponder, and time is running out.
I saw restrictions of mortal lifespan, and hurled the lance beyond.
The stone that's bleeding, the rock that's breathing, the war that's in our blood.
Rapid formations, and celebrations, my Universe shall march.
Through love of a labour, one law to follow, until the day is done
We take our places amongts the mortals, but soon the day is done.
Picture - sent back live
Picture - the golden age
Letter - on your doorstep
Called up - for your country
Never no i don't wanna - no
Horror - don't let me go on
Mommy - they'll take his pain away
Carry us - face the music
Called up - for your country
Never no i don't wanna - no
Take - aim - and - fire
I was a tourist in the Andes
On my way to Tiahuanaco
Where the balance of a weeping god
Faced east to the rising sun
But I looked out the window
And all I could see
Was the face of a girl
She was looking at me
She was begging for food
Then I knew I had found
The weeping god
In the face of a child
As she gestures with her fingers
Her little brother followed suit
And all I did was take my camera
So the image never fades away
I no longer saw the great gate of the sun
Nor the dawn of time when our race had begun
Just black eyes like starving dogs looking at me
A weeping god was all I'd ever see
And as I sat in contemplation beyond all charity
Losing the magic and meaning of living
(the earth and the stars these things are mine)
And when they've drained the earth of all resources
We'll face the music still
For you and I shall be striking memories
In the thoughts of our children's children
I had arrived at my destination
At the gate of the rising sun
We shall again regain in sunset that balance
That we left undone
I stared at the shacks and the shanty town mess
I couldn't help but to think of the West
The balance was lost and my reason went wild
As the weeping god came alive in the child
I began to weep
And I remember the violation
Determination came,
Determination, Yeah!
Peace at the break of dawn, mist on the shore,
Time is healing everything, time is standing still,
A voice that is singing in my head,
With the breeze, the waves, the sea,
As we start to move as one.
Down from the hills, into the forest,
Walking on sands, into the water,
I've been dreaming - islands on my mind
Down from the hills, into the forest,
Walking on sands, into the water,
I've been dreaming - under a southern sky
Bright are the scented flowers, many shades of green,
Water from the purest spring - man is finding wealth,
Down by the clearing in glades of fern and palm,
Invocations rising from servants of the Star,
And we walk with the breeze, the waves, the sea,
As we move in unison.
All the seeds blowing further to the south,
Continuity when all's said and done,
All the seeds blowing further to the south,
Continuity when all's said and done.
There was a rhyme that wasn't a rhyme
In a time that wasn't a time
There was a place that wasn't a place
There was a race that wasn't a race
But I lived in a city no-one knew
Thousands of people, indecisions
Chained in by sorrow everyone
Started to wonder how it all begun
Waiting for leaders to lead them to pens
Queues went for miles and millions to come
Fall of because write us a few
Friend kept complaining and joined the queue!
Still was a place that wasn't a place
Still a race that wasn't a race
Had to find it, it wasn't 'round here
Such a thought - a simple idea
Long hall and benches, flesh on the spit
Music was playing, wine to drink
Women of scarlet, faces of flame
Laughter and argue, ever the same
I here
I hear the calling
Carry across the landscape
I hear it echo from every city to every village upon the earth
From every rooftop to every mountain
Calling the faithful to find themselves
A fire burning like precious water, the fire that drives me on and on
Through hell I shall reach heaven
I shall not resist the changes before me
View the madness with perspective
(the clock is ticking but time means nothing)
So I ascend to the blinding light
Then plummet to the thickest darkness
(and I always tell myself how splendid is the adventure!)
I can no longer see good or evil
But worship polarity
So do not trust the beggars that expose their poverty of spirit
Bleating "I will follow"
I heed
I heed the calling
Follow yourselves as leaders
Arise, arise, stand upright and take pride in who and what you are
Great changes are coming and you will be asked to identify yourself
So run like a lion with inexhaustible strength from world to world
Let your work shine unto the ends of time yeah unto the ends of time.
The crowd was one (oblivion ran deep)
A consciousness of cannon-fodder walking in its sleep
Vacant expressions (and don't look ahead)
Everybody dance with the beautiful dead I said!
All queue up and gravel for a hit
SOmeone pulls the reins then you chew at the bit
Encouraged by commercials to spend beyond my means
I laughed as it all fell apart at the seams
(Hey! Take a look at tomorrow)
But will I inherit the good green earth?
Such a lovely world
All mod-cons there was dust on the drums
My electronic beat-box got the job done
Everybody emulate the pulse of the soul
And change your clothes (to make you feel old)
Effort and sweat was a thing of the past (they said!)
Welcome to the world of the beautiful dead
my [tiv's] changing
day to day
the fiery kisses
fast decay
i look up the river
my firm thoughts down
the block they've poisoned
gotta sit tight
the wait
odd awakening
the silence grows
screams outside
distortion shows
new jump force
bad bad billys
it's just another [vine]
of distorted greed
Understanding the meaning of struggle
Giving your whole life to a single passion
Which others may or may not
Consider obsolete
Like a rare flower
Seen by a few before it withers and dies
(before it withers and dies)
Seeing it all
All the way through the very end
Regardless
A full stop followed by an exclamation mark
Written in your flesh and blood
Getting knocked down every time
Getting knocked down every moment
you get up - until you love getting up
I know what you've been going through
I've been there too
God knows I've been pushing hard Pushing so damn hard -
I've forgotten what the hell I'm even -
Pushing for
Recognize it when it happens to you
Learn to recognize it and know what to do
Stop clinging on, let go, own nothing
Do it out of love
Do it out of love
Words cannot substitute
Losing everything
Losing your home
Losing your money
Your dignity
Losing your mind - your beliefs, ideals
Then and only then
When everything is gone
You no longer care
Your soul standing naked and bare
Stripped down to the truth
Then you'll find everything
On heaven and earth
On heaven and earth
On heaven and earth
The struggle is long
The struggle is hard
The struggle is beautiful
Province, state and country
The great divide has come
Ten percent shall prosper
To them the kingdom come
I can see trends behind trends
I can see
Jack has bought a business
Pete inherits home
Jill has got a trust fund
They've all been buying fun
I can see trends behind trends
I can see
Stay one jump ahead
Jack's alright he's a predator
He'll give you three good reasons that'll change your mind
1) You can't afford the B.U.P.A. health scheme
So when you get sick you're going to die
2) You can't afford to buy your own property
So when the rent goes up then you're on the street
3) You can't afford the bills and pills you need
You've got to get them cause they're going to get you
Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key
Patience as a virtue so be accessary
Or you can always be a victim
A victim of the circumstance if you like?
Stay one jump ahead
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Province, state and county
The great divide has come
Ten percent shall prosper
To them the kingdom come
I can see trends behind trends
I can see
Jack has bought a business
Pete inherits home
Jill has got a trust fund
They've all been buying fun
I can see trends behind trends
I can see
Stay one jump ahead
The Whitehouse played the game their own way
Their foreign policies gave me the shits
I didn't understand until I read
St. John's acoount of Apocalypse
American heroes Colonel Oliver North
Everybody says he was just doing his job
Arms for the hostages, it's plain to see
Why the very next day they bombed Tripoli
Terrorists were everywhere
Blowing Greenpeace ships right in the air
Wall Street crashed and the hurricane
Tore the trees from their roots, derailed the trains
London twon ground to a halt
And everybody said it wasn't our fault
Waether goes crazy
Nature goes crazy
Man goes crazy
Nature goes crazy
Stay one jump ahead
Incredible induction of such awesome energy
The sound satisfaction signify Geordie celebrity
Taking the guitar playing like he's a killer
He doesn't really matter cos you know he's gonna bill up
All the sound resounding into your brain
You know so you can never run away he;s pumping like a train
Chiffity Chaff
I'm goind down the track
I can do as I feel cos he never takes the slack
The rhythm that's riding is taking you much further
The posse in the house yo they say I'm Kruger
Murder that they give you will tak you on down
Because he is the boss of the guitar sound
Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key
Patience as a virtue so be accessary
Or you can always be a victim
A victim of the circumstance if you like?
Stay one jump ahead
Time means nothing
Time means nothing to me anymore
Twenty years ago
Twenty years ago and yesterday
All the same to me all the same to me
Yes all the same
Time means nothing
Time means nothing to me anymore
I shut my eyes a second ago
And I was only eight years old
Lying on my back in the sun
Listening to the sound of children playing
And I remember all my thoughts
(thinking how beautiful life was)
So wonderful to be young
So beautiful to be young
Rememebring how, how to be young
One by one, all my friends died
And my body decayed
Time means nothing
Time means nothing to me anymore
I close my eyes, I was learning
A lesson somewhere else
I shut my eyes, I was learning
A lesson somewhere else
Time means nothing
Time means nothing to me anymore
Slipstream
Time means nothing to me anymore
It's the age of cvs
Contract to contract
And my stress levels rise
This is a job for life
(there are no jobs for life)
I am forced to a decision
I am forced to see the other side
I can see a way out of here
I can see a way out of here
Placards of prophets
And great leaders of men
Personality cults
All over again
(but) we'll build shrines for our loved ones
We'll burn fires and lights
And we'll talk of the old ways
To find new ways that might...
...they just might
In the villages and hills
On the tundra and ice
To the forests of kauri
In the paddies of rice
By the lakes on the plains
To the great mountain range
Love the land and its people
I can see a way out
With the hours that we kill
And the dreams that we hide
Of alternative life styles
This savage freedom i love
All across the scenes the statues crumble
We cherished the seconds, counted the days
And people move with lines across their faces
Embracing each other with a smile
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
We'll remember distant times and places
We'll remember summer sun that yields
Shed our bodies heart and soul for love's sake
Civilizations wax and wane.
Inocence will fade away like Autumn
Likewise the dream of youth, the task
And we shall be at peace upon our parting
With the thoughts of loved ones in our hearts
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
So let the sunrise light up the distnat shores
And we'll remember last days of Rome again.
The age of miracles, assent of man in strident tones
Realms of fantastic have been forged by folly speed and steel
Out of the cones stream forth, creation is not yet complete
New species come, old species fall to nature once again.
Now that I've found god on every side - and in every legion
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
The shipyards blaze, vibrant arsenals wait their turn
Idols of rational worlds to worship power, to worship strength
Great crowds excited by riot, pleasure, work
Insane crusades, destructive gesture of the freedom bringers
And all the bells shall toll, as holy banners fly
And all with talk of freedom
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
Let rage and hate of races run from Adam down
The magic of our science shines brighter than a thousand suns
Liberty in new dimensions ruthless and spectacular
Obliteration shall be poetry of 'Golden Dwans'
And as the people thrill, I stand and comprehend upon the threshold.
Revolution
Points of no return
Evolution
We cross the rubicon
I woke up in the darkness and i tried to see the clock
It was four a.m.
I was curled up like a foetus and my muscles were stretched taut
I couldn't face the burden of another week of worry
I was broken
I took a green and yellow pill. washed down with filter coffee
'til it kicked in
Get me out
Keep me up
Level me out
I was isolated by the way i thought and felt
They saw my moodswings
I travelled down the longitude of opposite emotions
I bi-polar
In the north they saw my upside. my excitable and optimistic spirit
In the south they saw my anger and my tears and my despair
They saw my moodswings
Get me out
Keep me up
Level me out
I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people
Don't monitor this guinea pig for research any more
I will try again
Pharmaceutical conglomerates just count me as a unit
For their product
Identify the enemy. remove the source of fear
Start to change my life
It's a false state of elation
You can join the prozac nation
If you want to
Get me out
Keep me up
Level me out
I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people
Around, around, young men and women move
Through sun and steel our lives transforming
To forge a link flow backwards to our source
And forfeit self amongst the masses
Why do we love them?
Love of the masses
They fight and play in timeless rivalry
The people clamour for a loser
WIth joy and sorrow mixed we realize
That epace shall come by sacrifice
Why do we love them?
Love of the masses
As proud as heroes walking hand in hand
The common destiny we're sharing
And all affected without prejudice
Shall forfeit self amongst the masses
Why do we love them?
Love of the masses.
My values altered i was looking for peace
I was tired in the lands of the west.
I had to get out
I took a map, let the pendulum swing
I wrote a note, took my prayer mat and left
On a prayer and a wing
And every moment of my life
I dedicate to you
And when i fear of falling
I am in your hands
Pilgrimage
Through the archway in the city of light
The procession began
I heard their praises rise like incense to heaven
I'd awoken from a long time ago
I fell to my knees
I kissed the ground then i started to cry
And every moment of my life
I dedicate to you
And when i fear of falling
I am in your hands
Pilgrimage
So wonderful
I saw the merchants selling saffron and spice
I felt acceptance for the fate of my life
I was thirsty then i came to a spring
I had to have faith
I was hungry, you sent a stranger to me
She shared out her food
And every moment of my life
I dedicate to you
And when i fear of falling
I am in your hands
Pilgrimage
primitive feeling
primitive way
getting closer
to the primitive day
intuition
wherever it goes
the primitive day
the primitive way
primitive feeling
primitive way
getting closer
to the primitive day
follow the feeling
wherever it goes
the primitive day
In the morning as I come around, rub my eyes and look outside
Watching, absorbing the underworld - reflections of a monstrous soul within
Power stations and power games - this sickness called society
I have identified the forces behind these changes that I see
I put on my mask
I walk down the path
I go through the arch
Outside the gate
I have walked blkac lava fields of the northern hemisphere
I have travelled the Andes range, across Pacific isles
There is no escape in the waking world from that which is approaching us fast
Salvation is drawn from our childhoos dreams
In lands of beauty untainted by cynicism
I put on my mask
I walk down the path
I go through the arch
Outside the gate
He invokes entities vast and mindless!
We shall taste unimaginable joys a thousand times greater than these!
And when the stars assume their rightful place, man liberates a mindless race
Morals and laws shall be thrown aside - tap the millenial flame with pride
Gaze with wonder, embrace your fate
- A madman looks outside the gate!
I put on my mask
I walk down the path
I go through the arch
I close the gate
London, New York, Paris, Tokyo
All is one with the multi-nationals
Total monopolies I can sink or swim
Adrenalin is rushing through every action
Whole nations crave for release from the suspense
And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession
I've been dreaming all your nightmares
Holocausts, invented fantasies
We build the tower, tower falls down
All my dreams come true
Sweet Jesus & Mohammed
Disputes between the boys
Whole nations crave for release from this suspense
And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession
Scrape my nails across a brick
I'll describe my mornings in the early hours
My pulses are racing, my heart beats out loud
I am north of the border (and I'm cold and I sweat)
And I worry I worry what tomorrow will bring
Scrape my nails across a brick
I walk north of the border and step over the line
To a place of frustration (going out of my mind)
I've tried wearing bright colours to brighten my life
But the truth cuts through fashion, it cuts like a knife
Just look at our faces, yes they say more than words
We're so lost in our problems
We're so lost in our world
Yesterday - nothing
But today is o.k. - I've enough to survive on
Tomorrow's another day
Scrape my nails across a brick
night time - turning out the sun
countdown - pulsing like a machine
conflict - cars and people, steel on flesh
night time - desperations sweat on breath
bloodstains - night covering the crimes
daytime - shows the face behind the mask
showtime - law and order life and death
funtime - a drunken time where all can lie
come, come with me, we'll run into the night
come, come and see, sweet madness of night
night time - party troops and governments
clubtime - lovers riches promises
no time - running hiding crying tears
it's night time - and time to run from all your fears
The sun is setting in on England's green and pleasant land
AT dusk I leave the town to tear the fences down
And I ignore the voice of education sighing and crying in my head
In the light of every dream, we're all coming home
Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land
Memories of gentlemen and cricket fade away in the hot summer
But still they carry out traditions of the past without a meaning
In the light of every dream, we're all coming home
Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land
New towns and concrete towerblocks, inhuman as they stand
And did those feel in ancient times, or was it just our imaginations?
In the light of every dream, we're all coming home
Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land
Nine tenths of the law than sic
Is possesion
Life expressed in matter is a blasphemy
Success defined by aquisition stinks!
So busy trying to make a living i forgot about living
Yes i do
So busy trying to make a living i forget about life
The best things i found in life were my birthright
Green fields mean more to me than a brand new car
Will you swap your hi-fi for a clear blue sky?
Will you cash in all your shares for Gods clean air?
Is your answer yes,or no,to these painful truths?
Is your answer yes,or no,to these painful truths?
Do you grovel to your master?
Do you beg like a dog?
First things first,repeat to yourself
AHHH MONEY!, Money is not our GOD!
Mine!
The best things in life are free
Mine!
I own the beach and the blazing sunset
Mine!
I own the waves and the fresh air
Mine!
I drink the milk of the stars in this beautiful moment
Say to yourself
ALL THESE THINGS ARE MINE!
Repeat after me!
Money's not our God
Do you grovel to your master?
Do you beg like a dog?
First things first,repeat to yourself
AHHH MONEY!
She walks up by the path
Into a mountain side
Sedona red the landscape
An offering for her life
She starts to rub her red clay
Across her fair white skin
She starts to dance and play
She plays a drum and sings
She builds a medicine wheel
He studied physics there
An undergraduate
But in the coffee shop
He talks of gaia's love
He talks of gaia's love
He speaks out how he feels
He turns the medicine wheel
He builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
I...am so grateful
He wields a band of fire
To fill his heart's desire
And how the wolves they bay
He hears a brand new day
With reverence he plays his song
Stone by stone he carries on
Following some high ideal
He turns the medicine wheel
He turns a medicine wheel
He builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
He builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
Equinox sun. Summers of fun
No mortgage repayments to weigh my mind
And if it all fell through tomorrow
Put my pack on my back
And it's home where the lunatics roam
Faith, faith moved a mountain
Where the rivers are so clean
And the consciousness so green
And the luminous folk shine like
Lanterns of hope
Lanterns of hope shine on
Lanterns of hope
Ribbons of wishes, tied to the trees
Hives full of honey, yield to the seed
And if it all fell through tomorrow
Put my pack on my back
And it's home where the lunatics roam
Faith, faith moved a mountain
Where the rivers are so clean
And the consciousness so green
And the luminous folk shine like
Lanterns of hope
Lanterns of hope shine on
Lanterns of hope
Fire, fire light the lantern
When we drink from the streams
And we grow our own greens
And the fences have all been torn down
Lanterns of hope (eight repeats).
Land of - better change your tune now
Milk and - oh so negative
Honey - and we're so content now
Land of - Land of Milk and Honey
And you never even know when it's standing right before you
'Cos always watching the detective film about
How it's not on 93rd Street always misses golden opportunities
Land of - better change your tune now
Milk and - oh so negative
Honey - and we're so content now
Land of - Land of Milk and Honey
One up three to go, all the hidden motives
Like daytime airplay - hah- cocktail Saturday
And the silver disc upon the wall means success
So they tell me
Land of - better change your tune now
Milk and - oh so negative
Honey - and we're so content now
Land of - Land of Milk and Honey
Change the tune now, sales go dwindle
Change the subject next new single
Change the tune now, sales go dwindle
Change the subject next new single
Land of Milk and Honey
Land of - Milk and Honey
Land of.
Well take it easy
While the world goes crazy
As it's just another day
And we've all been through the mangle
And our pockets are empty
But we'll live like kings and queens
Hear the choirs of noise sing
Take a load off my mind soothe me
Live like kings and queens
Well easy sleazy
In and out and back again
Feel a power running through me
And i'm alive and kicking
I accept submission
To the pleasures of the flesh
And the joy of pain
Satisfy me satisfy
Live like kings and queens
I said: "take it easy
"Sanity has come"
I can never undo
The wrong of the beginning
There's so many hungry
But i'm gonna turn a blind eye
'Cos i've got to live now
Rejoice and kill your heart 'cos i say...
Live like kings and queens
this is an instrumental track no lyrics
running through this maze - cry at what i see
a civilisation with values alien to me
all the role models, lost souls, false gods that i am shown
ordeals that i pass through for purposes unknown?
in the cul-de-sac turn back on my trade from the cul-de-sac
help try getting me out
in a transient phase
at the end of an age
running through this maze
some born again idiot tracks me down and i couldn't escape
trying to notch up points for his entrance fee to new jerusalem
"do you love the lord your god with all your dogma?"
he said "you'll get it all back in the next life"
get it all back, get it all back
get it all back
mystery schools for the fools, great seats of learning
business, lawsuits, market forces - no philosophy courses
a bachelors degree in loopholes and a masters in self-interest
studies for automatons and syllabus two
She hears his footsteps, he walks up the path
And when the letter drops her heart beats fast
She picks up the envelope then she turns her face away
She'll check out her results another day
Refusing to accept what they might say
Jana cry "i've got so much to give"
Jana sigh "i've got so much to live"
Jana's mind - positive or negative
Jana died
I watch her shiver by the fireside
From time to time she just breaks down and cries
Her cat curled in her lap and she's secure in a place that she calls home
Flicking through postcards and brochures of rome
Dreaming of places that she'd like to go
Her friends bring her soup each day
And she takes an array of bright coloured pills
From a.z.t. to vitamin c but still she wastes away
Forcing down food but still she wastes away
Jana cry "i've got so much to give"
Jana sigh "i've got so much to live"
Jana cry - jana tested positive
Jana died
I looked across the North Sea
And the sea looked so dead
(I wondered what this place would look like
In the next twenty years)
But where I'm living
All the shop shelves are full
Goods to help me shut out
Scenes of this dying world
And every time I tried to hide
The churning of my guts inside
Everybody failed to heed the warning
Mother, mother I just stand by
They push the needle deep inside
Pump poison in your veins
Intravenous
Holidays were different
All the things I learnt
All the boys were sunning
While the skin cancer burnt
Just for one split second
I saw the great work of man
As he turned the forests
Into deserts of sand
Gold rimmed glasses hypnotise
Acts of love are analysed
Rites of passage rationalised
Reason then gives birth to lies
Don't pull me. don't pull me.
Don't pull me down
Don't pull me. don't pull me.
Don't pull me down
A dog doesn't question why he barks
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my
The mind creates monstrosities
Paradise makes the opposite
Constitution of my heart
A clear conscience all i need
Don't pull me. don't pull me.
Don't pull me down
Don't pull me. don't pull me.
Don't pull me down
A dog doesn't question why he barks
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my
To feel and cry, to move and run
To laugh at hate and overcome
To laugh at fate and go as one
I am happy in this state
don't pull me. don't pull me.
Don't pull me down
Don't pull me. don't pull me.
Don't pull me down
A dog doesn't question why he barks
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
By day we're dormant
Because it's too hot outside now
Nocturnal notions (as we leave or cocoons)
Antennae tuned to inuman vibrations
Shading the cities of the world to come
I listen to the sound, the endless construction
Inside the termite mound
I walked past the nursery
All the children have gone now
(The rules we taught them are what they've become)
Move past the people (they make me feel so indifferent)
Serving their purpose
It's their purpose to serve
A thousand lights from this hneycombed labyrinth
These winding tunnels lead to my place of desire
Bars and bazaars of self-gratification
Live to consume
Live for momentary pleasures
I listen to the sound, the endless construction
Inside the termite mound.
Slowly, slowly all fall down
A blindfold dance and a 1,2,3
No mistake where they always emphasize security
Draw the curtains, shut the door, the heater's on
I couldn't ask for more
I pull the sheets right overhead
Snuggle, snuggle safe in bed
Take the wight right off my shoulder
Misery claims much too late
Bow the head or grip the sabre
Vermichten regenerate
Bright eyed young inherit all
treading down upon the fallen
They was drawn towards the Hum
Plenty more where they come from.
Slowly, slowly all fall down
A blindfold dance and a 1,2,3
Swarm upset the gentle lamb
A hive don't hold no humble bee!
Slowly, slowly, out it came,
Tendencies that weren't the same
And they were drawn towards the Hum
Plenty more where We come from.
Extreme nature panic plays anothertune
Drastic measures taken round by all
Four years - four minutes still turns my insides out
I can't help thinking of the cowering families
Inside the hatred builds
Spit out the contents later
So we can - Have a nice day now
I had a word with the old man at the gate
Recollections, anticipated days
The poor old cloth capped man had problems
Fitting in pitch fork victories in the next campaign
And down his garden path he stopped dead in his tracks
I saw the old man's face so sad
Extreme nature panic plays anothertune
Drastic measures taken round by all
Four years - four minutes still turns my insides out
I can't help thinking of the cowering families
Inside the hatred builds
Spit out the contents later
So we can - Have a nice day now
Attack behind attack
A war behind a war
Wise thoughts to broad horizons
A nation, the very least
Such simplicity, advance to find myself
He didn't see such simplicity
Hope is for the loser
Certainty to be
Pleasure of the winner
Certainty to be
Take now or stay the same!
Attack behind attack
A war behind a war
Wise thoughts to broad horizons
A nation, the very least
Such simplicity, advance to find myself
He didn't see such simplicity
Hope is for the loser
Certainty to be
Pleasure of the winner
Certainty to be
Take now or stay the same!
You see
You feel
You know
React
You're waiting
You're waiting
Change
Around the strangers moved, the shouts I felt within
New panoramas seen (I loved it as it was).
Forests of pylons built, the scaffolding is raised
And how the men pursue their worrk
They act convinced of freedom.
Crossed over by the bridge
The brook was running ill.
We recognised the place - places we knew as children
We wept upon the sight, and progress tore our hearts
Fences divide the land, homes boxed like rabbit hutches.
Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village
Where soil will not provide, no king and land are one
Monopolise the holy ground, all that we hold as sacred
No harvest moon shall rise, no valley homestead seen
And now the cities never end, and how the cities stretch forever
And in the morning promise me great times will come again
And the homelands in our hearts will never fade away
Let the legends promise me the earth shall rise again
And homelands in the hearts of men shall never fade away.
Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village
Goodbye to the village
I'll never never see my home
I'll never never see my home
You'll never never see your home
You'll never never see your home
Bright clothes and smiles and we'll talk sunshine
Although the light bulb's dim
And my beach ball is getting dusty
And the fun wears thin - thin.
It's much the same everywhere
Diversions right and we're ready to dance
Complacency seemed to kill the cat
Curiosity led me on
On what foundation is your pedestal built
The great architect to a tower block
And Uncle Sam says it's not long now
And we can play our way
My Marvel comic says a hawkheaded man
Led to a brighter day
It's much the same everywhere
We're getting ready and we're ready to dance
Happy, so happy, I just accept the way things are
I'll stick to songs - that's real
So happy
La la la la aah
Come inside boy - they call this fun!
(Music to please the adolescent)
Taking the easy way out again
Part of the process - same old story
Follow the leaders
(look at the leaders)
You just condone all that you mean
Play time doesn't last forever
Shouting about it taking the bait
Walking again in the same direction
Follow the leaders
(look at the leaders)
Time moves on and then you notice
The ground starts to tremble beneath your feet
Man killed man and blood was shed (yawn!)
And the gasps of relief at human nature like
Follow the leaders
(look at the leaders)
Extremities confusing me
Affect me night and day
Fascinated, devastated
Critical decade
Vanishing greenery
Changing scenery
Yet somehow I accept
Extremities confusing me
Yet somehow I accept
White heat (I watch a meltdown)
Cut the wood against the grain
Pleasure - pain (one word)
Extremities
I'm frightened
I'm excited
And I cannot differenciate between the two
(Can you?)
Each and every one of us is watching for the signs
The days go by we count the moments
The moments of our lives
All the time all the time
The earthquakes came and the buildings all fell down
(And the waves I saw, I saw the people slowly drown)
Yes the sun grew hot and the children dehydrate
I saw the soldiers burn
I saw their skin just blister and break
Each and everyone of us is counting out the
Moments of our lives all the time
Outside the boundaries where all the streets are empty
In such a lonely moment we reach the same conclusion
Chants of cathedral choirs, stations of iron cogs grind
Primeaval screams we heard.
Release cannot be found, no
You'll never see that water flow
You'll never see the water flowing
We that have tasted such beauties of corruption
Triumphal arches raised designed to fall again
My kingdom and place of exile
You'll never see the water flowing.
Your shouts of righteousness jaded our contributions
Too scared for anger, the cause without a rebel
No revolutions in four four time
You'll never see that water flowing.
I walk down amongst the ruins and past glories shattered me
Elysian decays, answers that we are finding
Waters of perfection fade
You'll never see the water flow
You'll never see the water flow
You'll never see the water flowing.
Back to square one, and the old school backfire
It's just begun, let's watch the blind eyes turning
Stains on the wall, been waiting far too long now
Nice day, blue sky, I watch them shrug their shoulders
Tighten the grip (getting tighter)
Now see the ball is rolling
We take delight, it's been a long wait for this moment.
Back to square one, another empire backfire
Back to square one, another empire backfire
SIgn of the time, blood pressure running high now
Nowhere to dance, which channel can you turn to?
We take delight, we watch them shrug their shoulders
Let's take delight, it's been a long wait for this moment.
Back to square one (now it's my turn)
Another Empire backfire
Back to square one (now it's your turn)
And the old school backfire...
Watching the decoys of all description
Sparkle of colour creating diversion
The liars are out - they have all the assets
Crawling for oil they were bleeding for gold
Fruit tasting bitter and lead in the air
Butcher the womb and expect her to bear
Forests are falling there's smoke in my throat
Machine over man and the mass over mind
Re-assurance from face on my screen
Appointment with destiny for those who will run
Out of the virus immunity comes
Out of the virus immunity comes
Watching the decoys of all description
Sparkle of colour creating diversion
The liars are out they have all the assets
Crawling for oil they were bleeding for gold
Fruit tasting bitter and the lead in the air
Butcher the womb and expect her to bear
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
Eighties - i have to push, i have to struggle
Eighties - get out of my way, i'm not for sale no more
Eighties - let's kamikaze 'til we get there
And we sang
You do it this way
Eighties - by day we run by night we dance, we do
Eighties - i'm in love with the coming race
Eighties - i've got the best, i'll take all i can get
Eighties - i'm living for the eighties
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i struggle
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - push, push, struggle
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - push, push, struggle
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(original lyrics)
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties
Eighties - I have to push, I prostitute myself
Eighties - I saw the whole world getting anxious
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
And we sang
In these Eighties
Eighties - I'm sitting on a table talking ideals
Eighties - I got the best, I'll take all I can get
Eighties - Here comes the savage day
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
And we sang
In these Eighties
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)
Funny handshakes. insider dealing
Et in arcadia. arcadia ego
Backhanders and salamanders
A powerhouse that is morally
Mechula
I'm sorry democracy is changing
I'm sorry democracy is changing
I'm not a slogan or a badge
Or a cross in the ballot box
Neither values or objectives
You do not represent my deepest
Thoughts and wishes
Education in obsolete skills
Stereotyping and media projection
Industrial psychologists
Plan a campaign that is financed by
Big business
You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)
The lore of elders passes judgement on this waste
And finding me or them does lack accepting fate
And as the moments pass another face arrives
We watch them come and go with speed of passing clouds
Forbidden fruits of dreams that rule our thoughts my love
Of lands untouched and ways to come always maybe
But choking on promises meant for the deal
Thinking again the darkest hour before the dawn
Confirming fears that from the dawn of time have been
Retracing footsteps in dark chambers of grey lands
And through the madness through the terror we must pass
As if awaiting sunlight that may never come
In time we face ourselves with all our faults and fears
Now that i know the final conflict is within
I recognise the faces of my friends and hear the call
"Come journey, journey with me through the darkest hour"
Take a walk to the new town, take a look around
Pretty road names pass us by, a foundation sound
They paint their walls and ceilings white to feel clean inside
Ten square miles so synchronized I could have cried
And the bodies go by barely half awake
Awaiting things to come again, nice things to come
It's such a nice environment I'm in
I wonder why I'm here and the bodies go by barely half awake.
All but the few ever notice anything at all, Oh dear
All but the few ever notice anything at all.
I've got a nice new wristwatch with a bright red strap
The second hand really moves quite fast - I'd never thought of that
And then I pick my picture book to compensate outside
It's back to fiction once again, I could have cried.
And the bodies go by barely half awake
Awaiting things to come again, nice things to come
It's such a nice environment I'm in
I wonder why I'm here and the bodies go by barely half awake.
All but the few ever notice anything at all, Oh dear
All but the few ever notice anything at all
We in our infancy, led down shining paths
Shine, shine, shining paths, divine our disillusion
Face our imperfection, I begin to wonder
Onion peelings scattered, we've been crying crying.
Open our eyes and tears run down
I open my eyes and tears run down
I look through your mind and tears run down
And under the skies and tears run down.
Look at our condition, stand on concrete dias
Lovers frail and naked move like pawns on chessboards
I had no idea, I had no conception
Where have we all come from? Where are we all going?
Open our eyes and tears run down
I open my eyes and tears run down
I look through your mind and tears run down
And under the skies and tears run down.
All these changes we shall witness
I will try to understand
Share your grief and your confusion, compassion in us cries
No divine intervention, only moves on black and white
Great schemes, great schemes are also made of these.
Open our eyes and tears run down
I open my eyes and tears run down
I look through your mind and tears run down
And under the skies and tears run down.
Rosette and campaign trails
False gestures. too much make-up
Elected to serve the public
How did you make your fortune?
I love your cheesey smile
Please will you kiss my baby
More cars and endless car parks
Planning permission granted
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Cover-ups. official statements
Digest my gospel headlines
Marilyn committed suicide
Some nut blew jfk away
Mr. Murdoch cares for orphans
McDonalds goes eco-friendly
I'm cynical of you
There's millions like me too
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!
The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America
I will buy you rich perfumes
And we will eat the finest foods
A mansion in New England
A silver dollar for every child
Where everybody has got their price
They'll sustain our way of life
You and I will fly to Rio
I'll make you feel like a millionaire
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!
The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America
West is best and might is right
And with our allies - fight the good fight
A first class, five star enterprise
Now everybody's got to compromise
My moral code's on overload
Liberty still takes its toll
Take a look at the losers wasting in the bars
Where they cut their losses!
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money, and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!
The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America
There were fireworks in the Gulf
There was champagne at home - How I love America
But showbiz and Hollywood still shouted out - America
Ten percent of the rest
Is the hand that pulls the strings
Be the privileged few (to have to own to hold)
Power over the people yes yes
Power over people
Be the privileged few to have to own to hold
Money property assets before lives
Green gestures of a dying planet
An endless debate only too late
An appetite for glutony
The only way is up the only way is up
But when you are up you have to try and stay there
So you stamp and cheat on people
Champagne breakfats (rewards for the killing)
And a fat waist bulging
Indulging, with what you call good living
But most of all there is too much fat on your heart - pig
A lifestyle of cholesterol
Cross collateralized cholesterol
Saving what's left from profit margin
For what?
I'll tell you what for
For some conscience easing charity - Why?
Just to justify! Just to justify!
Look at this utopia
Society based on solid foundations
Educate our children - educate them well
To feather the nest and fuck the rest
(Yes yes feather the nest and fuck the rest)
The waste expands
(Your waist expands)
While others stand at the back of the queue
I mean you
Still the same old security
For your creature comforts
Exchanging the hours of your life
For the cash you've already spent
Eating rubbish so you can pay the rent
Table wine once a week if you're lucky
In comparison
Privatise the people's lives
Be part of the company (or fade!)
Appliance of science to privatise their lives
Water is our business
Electricity is our business
Gas is our business
Lives are our business
Business is our business
Your money - my time
Your stinking industrial bathwater - my wine
Imbalance induces hate
How will you bridge the gap
Between the endless buffet
And the empty plate I have
I feel hate I feel hate
I feel hate I feel hate
(Don't be afraid to show your hate, hate!)
You just treat me like a commodity
You didn't know I couldn't even afford to feed my family
I just want to kill
I just want to take a gun
And put it to your head
And pull the trigger
Denominations of a thousand
Different deities
Congregations, endless carnivals of gaiety
Why should i fear? why should i cling on to anything?
it's not how long long i live but how beautiful it is
And i saw crying. there was turmoil in the marketplace
I saw economies perpetuate the next arms race
And i felt helpless and there was nothing i could say
And then i noticed there's a change
That's coming over me
Tapping into the aeon
Balance of the eco-system,
Self-reliance beckons us
Windmills and waterfalls, strawberries and lily ponds
When skyscrapers no longer block the sun's meridian
When we wake up to the whisper of the voice
Tapping into the aeon
Adorations
Courage and Cowards move, heroes to ecstasy
Welcomes of war and wounds, vigil and vitcory
Structures of atoms dance, sugar towards the taster,
Prey to the predator, love as we're falling down
Through light and laughter flow, to dirge and death we go,
Mindless processions move, lanterns of burning towns,
Welcome to fray and feast, bliss in all sorrows found,
Rhythms and random moves and waves of adorations.
Patterns I'm finding
As pain and joy and sorrow mingle.
Patterns we're finding
Our faces raised in adorations.
Deserts are paradise, awake to genocides.
Delight and suffering, these roles that we have found
Nourished by food we eat, hungered by waste excrete
From apes or sons of god, let every act be sacred.
Patterns I'm finding
As pain and joy and sorrow mingle.
Patterns we're finding
Our faces raised in adorations.
here in this vortex my true self begins to show
where phantoms pass me by what secrets do they hold?
flesh torn upon the wheels of human frailty
part of me was fascinated by the cruelty
running from the madness running from this mirror of how i feel
a dream is just a shadow of something that i found real
black moon bad sleep - another side of me
black moon bad dreams - another side of me
in the temples i am kneeling fearing god
in the cinemas they are baying for some blood
horror began to dawn as fear played its part
the fear that cancels out the love that's in our heart
all the hurt we felt repeated down the line
the pain inflicted was the pain that we designed
i try escaping from the person that i am
here is the endless cycle break it if you can
black moon bad dreams - another side of me
I remember the sun beating down
Across my back
The taste of olives and pleasures that
You taught me
And we broke bread and then we drank
Cheap white wine
Memories of happiness frozen for all time
I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love...love...love...love
And i remember laughing so much we cried
You knew my every thought, there was
Nothing i could hide
We celebrated moons we marvelled at
The night sky
With flute and drum and pen we were
Grateful for our lives
I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love...love...love...love
I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love...love...love...love
One man limited room to think
Move with the lines in soft fat red
Phase one environment experiment
This is your city with miracles spent
So dead
Crime of flesh control is joyless
Blue white shells will not grow to trees
Phase one environment experiment
The smoke on the city with miracles spent
So dead
leave my body lose myself
leave this planet and leave this hell
born in the east die in the west
i never rest i never rest - whiteout
backwards backwards lose all time
intellect made us blind
analysis paralysis
analysis paralysis - whiteout
hear dog bark don't ask me why
be born grow old with grace and die
salmon leap sower reap
as crow flies so heat rise - whiteout
need to fill drink this wine
knock back the juice see the signs
leave my body lose myself
sitting in my armchair thinking again and again and again
going round in a circle i can't get out
then i look around thinking day and night and day
then you look around - there must be some explanation
and the tension builds
take advantage - let nothing be fantasy
how do you grow as you stunt your growth?
nothing you say makes sense anymore
then you look around - there must be some explanation
and the tension builds
sitting in my armchair thinking again and again and again
going round in a circle we can't get out
then i look around thinking day and night and day
then you look around - there's nothing left to say
Just enough water to ensurface the world
Oil baron running the government
So I'll start a war
All votes invalid, use any old lie
Gonna carve up your wealth, like pumpkin pie
Only fools won't realize and won't be told
That empires run on the old black gold
It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
It's a total invasion
Terrify them, complete submission
This is our goal,this is our mission
Destroy your customs, you'll have no say
We'll clothe your women in the western way
Is a fucking crusade
A lesson trade
So all you intellectuals
We're gonna invade
It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
It's a total invasion
The final push, the last battle
Even restored? Man is cattle
We want your oil, we want your land
We'll take your wealth, you'll have much less
We'll change your God to the 'Bitch Goddess'
It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
move on - light up the way
banner and festival where the wine and plenty flow
we'll go - let's make our way
because the flame within our hearts telling us to move towards
the feast of blaze la-la
each day - move closer to
where the noise uplifts my soul, where the "wilful" man shall go
start here - let's make our way
and the mess the fools have made won't stop us in our way
the feast of blaze la-la
the feast of blaze la-la
let's go - light up the way
banner and festival where the wine and plenty flow
we'll go - until that day
when the sun will shine again and then we'll all move towards
take up your arms pick up your courage
a black sun is rising as the gods of europe sleep
come back into your strength awaken
catastrophes atrocities shall summon you my love
glory glory how we wait in europe
what have they done, what are they doing?
the place i love so butchered ravaged scarred and raped
the years have passed us still we're fighting
'til once again somewhere green lands shall be in sight
glory glory how we wait in europe
glory glory how we watch in europe
the day humanity is over
let nations east and west tremble at the sight
'til standard bearers' eyes are hungry
we go - to the gathering
we go - to the common feeling
we go - anyway we can
we go - to the basic man
we go - get back my senses
we go - with a basic man
we go - and a basic feeling
we go - to the gathering
we go - to the gathering
Artist:Killing Joke
Album title:Killing Joke
Song title:Wardance
The atmospheres range
out on the town
music for pleasure
its not music no more
music to dance to
music to move
this is music to march to
to dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
look at the victim
sprawled on the wall
you know the the reason
outside the door
you got something
nasty in your mind
wanting to get out
to dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
we (walk on the pinch?)
honesty is sick
sure to be honest
look what you did today
the food runs short
another man he talks
one way out
will (?????) issue his command
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
the war dance
My faith and my love
But howl, howl, howl, the pain
My faith and my blood
Oh why, why, wild insane
My faith and my people
We'll howl, howl, howl, the pain
My faith and my freedom
I'll never let it go again
Not anymore I must let go
And when I finally reach the point of no return
I must let go because I know
I'm manic, I'm manic, I'm manic, so
And when you need catharsis, yes
Because it's how you're made, you know, yes
And when you need absolving, yes
Don't ask how but come into my house of pain
My faith and my love
But howl, howl, howl, the pain
My faith, yes my own will
Oh, see me through this pain
My faith in my blood
And flow right through my vein
My faith and no reason
I'll never be the same
Not anymore I must let go
And when I finally reach the point of no return
I must let go because I know
I'm manic, I'm manic, I'm manic, so
And when you need catharsis, yes
Because it's how you're made, you know, yes
And when you need absolving, yes
Don't ask how but come into my house of pain
My faith and my love
But howl, howl, howl, the pain
My faith and my freedom
I'll never let it go again
Not anymore I must let go
And when I finally reach the point of no return
I must let go because I know
I'm manic, I'm manic, I'm manic, so
And when you need catharsis, yes
Because it's how you're made, you know, yes
And when you need absolving, yes
Don't ask how but come into my house of pain
And when you need catharsis, yes
Because it's how you're made, you know, yes
And when you need absolving, yes
look at the faces
whose is the meaning
forget the passion
feeding the dead
the fall of because
look at the faces
it's cold outside
you're on your own
staying indifferent
the fall of because
it's cold outside
losing my fear
no more passion
passion is fed
because
Mark out the points, build the pyre
Assemble different drummers, light up the fire
Put on your masks and animal skins
Illumination, illumination
Listen to the drums
Between each beat, each beat of the drum
Oh beloved mother of liberty
Hold me in your arms
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
And the day will come before the lights go out
Who will you turn to, who will you turn to
Choose the crucifixion or Osiris slain
Recurring themes, time again
Illumination, illumination
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Oh, how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekiel?s chariots streak across the skies
Holy books and history texts forget because we know
Souls are recycled in the death and resurrection show
Oh beloved mother of liberty, come to me
Everything I?m taught, amounts to not
Everything I learn, the fire shall burn
Notions of myself that I?m not
Whoever I was is now lost
Illumination, illumination
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Oh, how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekiel?s chariots streak across the skies
Holy books and history texts forget because we know
Souls are recycled in the death and resurrection show
Oh, beloved woman of liberty, come to me
Burn away all my impurities
Hold me in your arms
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Oh, how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekiel?s chariots streak across the skies
Holy books and history texts forget because we know
Souls are recycled in the death and resurrection show
Oh, beloved woman of liberty
i've tried to understand the ways of men they taught me
they've lost their values as we define a wealth
semen and blood is all i've got, investments of a future
i'm searching for a new gold yes i'm searching for a new gold
a voice is calling
move closer to you - yeah
virile young men run down the street in havoc singing
"i wish to build, i penetrate, i penetrate"
restricted sexuality gives birth to worlds of terror
and all the time i'm trying to piece new schemes together - help me
architects erect erections, monoliths are raised
i love the swollen mound i love the swollen mound
all hail the new seed breeding from our hearts and wombs
and night and day run round in circles following sex instinct
push it between her legs and stretch the lips mother relieve me
bodies entwined in human tangle at the point of climax
shoot forth the new gold and at last reason makes perfect sense
i'm shooting, shooting forth
all time was left behind
i made my way to the basic man assembly
music filled the air and voices sing
and then the song became alive
stick hit the skin - i hit the stick
and we've all been keeping time
and all the boys been playing the drums
let's make our way to song and dance - continue
and then the song became alive - song and dance
i've seen a place - set in time
and pillars tall in my sight
then i heard voices sing
sweet in the air [they fell through]
haunting you
and then the song became alive - song and dance
ways we've lost come flooding back now
then my ancestors awake
(then i forgot myself)
and in our joy they take their joy
and in their skills we take our skills
then all the lines between are gone
then all the lines between are gone
stick hit the skin - i hit the stick
and we've all been keeping time
so all you boys keep playing the drums
let's make our way to song and dance - continue
and then the song became alive - song and dance
one man limited room to think
move with the lines in soft fat red
phase one environment experiment
this is your city with miracles spent
so dead
crime of flesh control is joyless
blue white shells will not grow to trees
phase one environment experiment
the smoke on the city with miracles spent
Artist: killing joke
Album title:kiling joke
Song title:requiem
Man watching video
The bomb keeps on ticking.
He doesnt know why
He's just cattle for slaughter.
The Requiem
The Requiem
The Requieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem
When the meaningful words
When they cease to function
When there's nothing to say
When will they start plotting against you
The requiem
The requiem
The requieeeeeeeeeeeeeem
Only a hint of religion
Uncensored truths for the novelty.
the sound of breaking glas
this is a reflection
The requiem
The requiem
The requiem
i heard the horn sound out the call
air began to shake
because it's hunting time again
senses start to wake
so you get up on your feet
and you gather into packs
and then the packs become a horde
then we all begin to laugh
take my hand now - let's go
find that place now - let's go
let's make haste now - let's go
because it's taking shape - new man come along
instinct overtake
singing as we go
war machine inside
push me further still
so you get up on your feet
and you gather into hordes
eliminate the obstacle
start to make your way
then the clouds begin to move
and my heart begins to pull
because the lady's taking hold again
i saw her taking shape
where the old will always die
when winter comes along
and man shall fear the storm again
all begin to move
i feel this wave that is carrying me
and i'm unable to stop
i stand outside of my body
but it continues to walk
love me and touch me
your body my feast
torn between two sides of my nature
half god and half beast
this hunger in my flesh my instinct says it knows what's best
and when the animal takes hold feel forces outside my control
and then my mind starts to work out
what's going on
while the knot in my stomach
is telling me something's wrong
yes it's all the pain that i'm feeling
and the guilt that i hide
yes it's all the hurt that i caused you
and all the tears that i've cried
this hunger in my flesh my instinct says it knows what's best
this craving comes and all i want is more - just a little bit more
to be shameless is blameless if we be what we are
if freedom is what i suspect
then tomorrow will jar against your conditioning
this hunger in my flesh my instinct says it knows what's best
i was born to see two thousand years
of man's effect upon the planet
extinction seems to be a plausible risk
whatever happens well i'm part of all this
my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment to come
taste the salt of my tears
take the wealth of my years
singing in the millennium with you
[resolutions for show]
[old ways don't seem to know]
singing in the millennium with you
fire burn all our uncertainties
water wash away impurities
contradictions and predictions abound
yes i believe that we can turn it around
my life i've been waiting for this moment
my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment
she talks of supernatural aeons that we'll make
she says "look behind the wave of changes" feel the future taking shape
i can see tomorrow
i can see the world to come
i can see tomorrow
hear the pandemonium
i ask her of her next of kin and loved ones in her care
she gestures all around her then she whispers "everywhere
"there is no nuclear family required any more
"my parents are the village and the village is the law"
she said "unlearn you must forget the values that you hold
"life is not longevity and beauty is the only goal"
cymbals that crash and pipes of pan awaken from your trance
the multitude excites, the flags are flown
by fireside the programme starts
and i am running through this madness
and all the time i can't relate
we sit around in rooms we talk our fears
asking why we should go on
god i try to make ends meet the best i can
playing rhythms out of time
far from the multitudes a few will always stand
they don't fit in they don't belong - move on, move on this way
within disorder i assume my role
laugh and cry as i accept
eternal indolence through ages
'til restless souls begin to wake
perfection within decades of dissatisfaction and disillusion
turbulence is certainty turbulence is friction between you and me
suffering and pain crystallised in a brain that recreates the process again
draws borders, cites laws monopolies of food and trade start wars
every time we try to impose order we create chaos we create chaos - breakdown
i have my doubts
a state of eternal conflict is all i have found
we build a wall that is made of tears watch the house fall down
and at the end of my life
yes at the end of my life
all shall be well all is as it was always meant to be...
blessed are the meek it is written they shall inherit the earth
watch her dying of cancer after a lifetime of caring for the poor
child with her arms blown off screams as she bleeds upon the rocks
sickened by my self-flagellation but i don't know how to stop
where is your love, my loving god? - breakdown
i have my doubts
[this base stand of filth] and the people around
we build a wall that is made of tears watch the house fall down
and at the end of my life
yes at the end of my life
all shall be well all is as it was always meant to be...
globalism and the u.n. neutralised by ethnic cleansing
animal aggression and a mind to perceive this terminal conflict
awareness is a curse - the more you open your eyes the more you despise
fashioned in the creator's yolk
it must be some sort of practical joke
only the righteous kiss those lips
too much guessing too much "need to believe"
this is madness madness
why should i suffer when i can't see your eyes?
whose truth is your truth?
what brain can you pick? what bones?
this is madness
when did living start being a sin?
if this is today - well what the fuck's tomorrow?
whose fashion is your fashion?
what passion can you buy?
when you know god is dead
and you are god?
this is madness madness
madness madness
fucking madness
only the righteous kiss those lips
too much guessing too much "need to believe"
this is madness madness
why should i suffer when i can't see your eyes?
whose truth is your truth?
what brain can you pick?
we (la-la-la hey!)
take lust almighty (la-la-la hey!)
and the sex between your legs (la-la-la hey!)
twist in the dance now (la-la-la hey!)
we (la-la-la hey!)
twist in the dance now (la-la-la hey!)
and the sex between your legs (la-la-la hey!)
on our way to the fire dances
let's all stay on our feet so
in the market here we are then
sing a song for sixpence oh!
time keeps ticking - tick tick tock
can't stop now just keep on pushing
i've got a feeling something's changing
i'm gonna find this feeling somewhere
let's all go to the fire dances
take the future in your hands now
let's do this dance forever
teacher teach me something new please
sow the seed god speed the plough
basic ways to simplify me
sun is shining in your favour
push push me till i get there
i'm gonna find the human somewhere
turn the pages time goes backwards
pay the piper to play your tune
you and me in a dance forever
summer nights and music - oh!
fill your cup and don't say maybe
sun is shining in our favour
let's be human - oh so human
Silent weapons for a quiet war
Under my skin, getting under my skin
All systems go
Security clause, passing of laws
Reality
Silence in the air, silence in the air
Acceptance
Information from birth
Animals are first then man
Silent weapons for a quiet war
ID not free for me
You can?t escape implant
Implant to the next step
You don?t want to protect
You just want to fucking control
Know my DNA, know my DNA
My structure
Know the movements of my day
Know the movements of my day
And haunts
Hypnotize, hypnotize
Acclimatise
Fingers in control, fingers in control
[Incomprehensible]
Silent weapons for a quiet war
ID not free nor me
You can?t escape implant
Everything is under control
Deep below the ground
Deep below the ground
Blasphemies
Deep below the ground
Deep below the ground
Hybrids
Hypnotize, hypnotize
Acclimatise
Hypnotize, hypnotize
Acclimatise
Silent weapons for a silent war
ID not free nor me
You can?t escape implant
Tear up your ID cards
And stick your implant up your ass
i am a child of folly
now i want my way
and i don't know good or bad
but i dance all day
and my sense of humour
getting out of hand la-la
and the diamond's sharp you know
all the harlequins they go go
such a lovely colour
so the nasty taste won't show
and when i'm seeing bitter
then the carnal feelings go
so if you guess my next move
then that's more than me
so when i start to smile
then the harlequins will go go
i am a child of folly
now i want some fun
so i don't need good or bad
and we've just begun
so if you guess our next move
let your sense of humour show
and the diamonds are forever
twilight open and you're on your own
noon is shining you want fun and games
hear the voices inside your head
let's play wild - volatile
get out my way - we go - take back
those ways - you know
fun and games come out to play
fun and games for unknown days
then you join your playmates in the street
and the nightfires burning and you're on your feet
all the boys and girls - look in their eye
domestication - lost overnight
games get bigger all the time
games get bigger all the time
because the playpens falling - stakes are high
and the child will conquer - step by step
let's play wild - volatile
fun and games come out to play
i found my way
i walk towards the new day
left my conscience way behind
tumble-tumble here we go
i found my way
i walk towards the new day
sun in my blood now
tumble-tumble here we go
faster we go
leave it all behind
saw the cities come and go
tumble-tumble here we go
faster we go
leave it all behind
saw the cities come and go
rise from my unconscious let it rise
get it out get it out get it out
behind the illusion of reality
are forces that speak to me
we will draw them out
we will cast them out
drink wines that foam
watch the ugliness rise
watch it bubble to the surface
let it out let it rise
all the hate all the hate
i saw you
you just wanted to take a razor and cut his face until it bled
you wanted to inflict
i saw the barbed hooks penetrate deep into the side of his flesh
get it out
let it rise
let it rise let it bubble to the surface
get it out
all desires that are undeclared
all resentments [their mockeries will show]
bulging eyes the animal soul begins to rise
let it out
get it out
let it rise - let the images rise
let it rise - let it bubble to the surface
get it out - get it out - get it out now
let it rise to the surface - let it rise - let it rise - guilt
all your guilt and the pain and the hurt you cause
all the tears in the child's face
all resentment undeclared
let it rise
let it rise let it bubble to the surface
clean it up - clean it up
cover yourself with water
wash it away, that's right, wash it away
You'll need holy water
And a little bit of knowledge
Invocation to your holy guardian angel
The great evil around
God gave man dominion
Over fowls of the air and fish of the sea
Justification of desecration
Who wrote this madness?
Get up, wake up
Someone's taking you for a ride
Get up, wake up
Dark forces
They're printing up money
That doesn't exist
Then watch the wealthy
As they cash their chips
Economy's failed, start a war machine
Devoid of moral cause
As we witness the end
Of international laws
Get up, wake up
Someone's taking you for a ride
Get up, wake up
Dark forces
I'm a inside man of the serpent clan
33 degrees, I'll do as I please
Power for power's sake
A personal treasure trove
And two weeks off in Bohemian Grove
You wanna come?
All the banking houses that buy and sell
They'd sell their own mother
Just eat shit die
Like everyone else
Get up, wake up
Someone's taking you for a ride
Get up, wake up
Dark forces
Get up, wake up
Someone's taking you for a ride
Get up, wake up
see the sun turn green
from my penthouse window
it's different now
because you got no shelter
alienation
by experimentation
enjoy yourself
this is the new age
complication
lens in the bath
of a new destruction
it's different now
it's what we always wanted
alienation
self-destruct
at the count of ten
complication
see the sun turn green
from my penthouse window
it's different now
because you got no shelter
alienation
enjoy yourself
this is your new age
i see patterns in the wind and in the sand
i see the stars, i read the clouds, i understand
then the madness overwhelmed (i lost control)
it was cut out for each stain upon my soul
all who died (and everything is alive)
communion
i saw a man, i knew his face, he called my name
and the house i'd never seen still looked the same
then i found all my possessions by the fire
the physical world fell into place i had all i desired
the mind begins to doubt what the heart already knows
reason gives into rhyme, mind begins to blow
reoccurring people numbers faces
We must play our lives like soldiers in the field
The life is short, I'm running faster all the time
Strength and beauty destined to decay
So cut the rose in full bloom
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
Everyday through all frustration and despair
Love and hate fight with burning hearts
Till legends live and man is God again
And self-preservation rules the day no more
Oh, we must dream of promised lands and fields
That's never fade in season
As we move towards no end we learn to die
Red tears are shed on gray
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
Till the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
Nothing, is real,
Or is illusion,
Escape, from flesh,
Transcend the earthly.
With fire, and chants,
Purification.
Between, the worlds,
In this state of bliss.
Rapture
Rapture
Rapture
Rapture
Revitalize, to be ecstatic,
Re-energize,
Recharge batteries.
Liberations, or incantations.
Liberate with, convulsions.
Rapture
Rapture
Rapture
Rapture
Free me, from all, materialism,
Let in, free breath, and out
With totality, into the abyss.
Rapture
Rapture
Rapture
Songs of joy & sorrow echo expressions of unity
Rejoice in precious moments - chants & noises of purity
Seperated from each other yet bounded by time as one
Past hurts forgiven now we recognise what's done is done
Beyond the veil in dreams we fly,
To soar again and then to die
Weeping at disaster
Choirs of endless tear
Holy is the laughter that overcomes all your fears
And did we overcome the shadow - confront the inner rage?
Will all our deeds be sung of - remembered with loving praise?
And did we fight with courage and make the world a better place?
They're dropping bombs again
And they're doing it in your name
All the rational commentaries
In the papers that I read
Marmalade and buttered toast
And the smell of Sunday roast
Kiss the arse of Uncle Sam
Oh, to be an Englishman
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only color is red, red, red, red
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only color is red sky in the morning
Everywhere I'm seeing red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red
Dawn brings a day of hell
How is that we pawn and sell
A single magpie in a tree
One for sorrow, one for me
Kick it off the cliff I said
Now the line fucks up my head
Too late to change this mode
Break all my moral codes
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only color is red, red, red, red
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only color is red sky in the morning
Everywhere I'm seeing red, red, red, red, red, red, red, red
Running from myself again
And all I feel is shame
It doesn't matter where I go
Everywhere still looks the same
This sense of emptiness
As we create this mess
Self-destructive tendencies
Of what you mean to me
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only color is red, red, red, red
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only color is red sky in the morning
And the third angel sounded
And a star fell from heaven
Burning as it were a lamp
And it fell upon the third part of the waters
Asteroid
I'm a ball of fire
A fire from heaven
Terror from nowhere
You'll never shoot me down
Days turns to minutes
Five seconds till it hits us
Three seconds to ground
One second to
Asteroid, asteroid
Coming in from the void
On the bed of the ocean
Where history lies
Strange civilizations
Vaporised
Days turns to minutes
Five seconds till it hits us
Three seconds to ground
One second to
Asteroid, asteroid
Coming in from the void
I.N.R.I
Nature renewed by fire made whole
And I climb to the mountain
Light to dark
Behind time and space
A hole in your Ark
Days turns to minutes
Five seconds till it hits us
Three seconds to ground
One second to
Asteroid, asteroid, asteroid
I'm a ball of fire
A fire from heaven
Asteroid
Coming in from the void
I'm a ball of fire
A fire from heaven
Terror from nowhere
You'll never shoot me down
Asteroid
Saw, all those things,
I should have said,
While I had the time.
You, who stood by me,
When I lost the plot,
You were always kind.
All, through these mortal joys,
Through my anger,
And endless rain.
And during, my addictions,
Yet the love you showed,
Still remained the same.
I'm grateful,
For all the times we've shared.
Through struggles, and madness,
You're there.
If, I don't return,
Before your time is up,
I promise, to set your place,
On a table, the one I throw your cup.
And to, ourselves we lie,
As we, break down inside,
'Cause we never, said enough,
How much we really loved.
I'm grateful,
For all the times we've shared.
Through struggles, and madness,
You're there.
I've seen you, in a dream,
On a sunny day, where the skies are clear.
I'll see you, in Cythera,
On an island, far away from here.
I'm grateful,
For all the times we've shared.
Through struggles, and madness,
People shoutin' nigger
Well it's time to draw a truce
Exxon's dumpin' oil
Probably goin' for that deuce
A baby boy of eighteen
Gets his license to kill
Mother in the ghetto
Sells pills to pay her bills
Here comes the punchline
It's a killin' joke
Welcome to you future
I leave you with no hope
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
Ah ah ah
It's a killin' jokeBastards bent on genocide
Well happy happy day
Kids killin' cops make
The weak begin to prey
Demon voice of evil
In the church and here to stay
And God
I really have no faith
(Chorus)