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GREED KILLING

 

The wrong time, the wrong place

Our smiling face of distrust

Buried, the seed deep in all our heads

Prepared ourselves for the fall

 

The greed killing!

 

Instinct to mistrust

Instinct - the lust

Their butchery of feelings

Geared for the greed killing

 

The greed killing!

 

Not now, then when?

Not now, then when?

When?(x4)

 

The lust denies the need (x5)

 

Existence is a steady flow,

The moulded image grows

No care, no faith in what you are

The pressure builds right from the start

 

Could it be just sour grapes?

Or have we failed to fit their shape?

It's always give, and never take

How much more can we give?

How much more can we take?

 

GLIMPSE INTO GENOCIDE

 

Blindness leading

Which one of me is real?

Through corridors of uncertainty - a forcewithout form

 

I've dug a hole so deep

Full of the shit of compromise

For once can't I keep

Pain on the outside

 

Adapt

Take on release

Others

Thoughts infringed

 

Adapt

Take on release

A life-

On pause syringed

 

A glimpse into genocide

My own emotions, a million strong

A heart so full of emptiness

 

RIPE FOR THE BREAKING

 

...You weren't born with the world fallingat your feet

 

The path is long sad agonizing being draggedon your knees

 

...and the silver spoon in your mouth tastesspoilt with rust

 

When all that glitters isn't gold and fortunesturn to dust

 

You're prime for the raping

 

And when you don't ponder to meet the agenda

Scavengers start to gather

Perverse visionaries taste the lather

The just rewards in controlled rebellion

 

Tossed and probed like a gristly peaceof meat

Lock, stock and barrel slave

You just don't contradict big brother

He's got the right to push you under

 

...and they pledge you the earth, thenpull you six feet down,

 

And you're branded with the stigma, unusabledropouts

 

...and with inspiration ravaged, you takethe final bow,

 

The creative demeanor shattered into amillion pieces

 

You're ripe for the breaking

 

CURSED TO CRAWL

 

A fragile peace that exists inside

A frame so shallow

So narrow-minded

An open wound

We run inside

A raging turmoil

Helplessness confides...

 

Cursed to crawl

For my pale and bleeding heart

Cursed to crawl

Pale and bleeding

 

Enter this sphere

Commonplace, borderline

Between my rage

Between our hate

Damn our mistakes

Fixation blinds

The pain of knowing

The truth beyond...

 

(repeat chorus x2)

 

Unprepared

A gruesome display

Perhaps a replay

Self-inflicted

Reduced to nothing

My piece of mind seduced

Unworthiness

The scars never heal...

 

(repeat chorus)

 

COLD FORGIVENESS

 

25 years severed

Take it and like it

Feel like there's nothing more

End of story

 

Thirsty, despised

Real love destroys

Hungry for anger

Hungry for... anger

 

The face behind the face

 

Cold forgiveness meant not for me

 

Race against time

Collapse

Fall in line

Nothing is sacred

 

Thirsty, despised

Real love destroys

Hungry for anger

Hungry for... anger

 

The face behind the face

 

Cold forgiveness meant not for me

 

MY OWN WORST ENEMY

 

Played out, wide off the mark

Mania develops

Akin to fiction

More than in a world of fact

 

My own worst enemy

My own worst enemy

Lifes foul treachery

My own worst enemy

 

Dams of emotion build

A dull and turbid screen

Cloudlike veils of black

In jungles of hopes oppressed

 

(repeat chorus)

 

So many times,

For no reason

So many promised punches

For what reason?

 

Ceaseless decay

Parallel obscene and flagrant

Ceaseless decay

Restrained my mind coils

 

So many times,

For no reason

So many promised punches

For what reason?

 

Ceaseless decay

Parallel obscene and flagrant

Ceaseless decay

Restrained my mind coils

 

(repeat verses 3 & 4)

(repeat verse 1 and chorus)

 

JUST REWARDS

 

I lived for the moment

I grabbed hold and I didn't relent

(the) skin of my teeth

Holds me longer

 

And now I come to claim my just rewards

Face down! ground down with no recourse

 

And now I come to claim my just rewards

The spoils of the toils are spent

 

Where is the right place?

Where is the right place, right time?

 

If the face fits, wear it

Faces fit while heart and soul slopes on

 

Scraping through - just rewards!

Dig the dirt - just rewards!

Hold your ground - just rewards!

Being sucked down - just rewards!

 

Where is the right place?

Where is the right place, right time?

 

When you lay down on your own law

You swim against the sanctimonious tides

 

Down not out - just rewards!

Looping tracks - just rewards!

Stunted growth - just rewards!

Dwindling hope - just rewards!

 

DOGMA

 

Innocence-

A painful reminiscence

Of what was not

And will never be

Meant not for me

An unjust war

On the futile

 

Bludgeoning my affection (wide open)

Cries of overkill

 

Scraps of memories

Flung from our master's table

A plan I'm sure to disable

Allegiance to none other

 

Bludgeaning my affection (wide open)

Cries of overkill

 

Regenerate a healing catharsis

That bursts, meaningless

Regenerate a healing catharsis

That bursts, meaningless

 

Graceful - a selfish will

The chilling thrill

A play on the nerves to end 'all serves'

 

As penance

To a man's drying tear

We leer but deny ourselves

 

TAKE THE STRAIN

 

Take the strain! Can you take it?

Take the strain! Or even fake it?

Take the strain! Aren't we lucky

Take the strain! To be breathing?

 

Take the strain!

 

Are you the man in the next bed

Without the tubes, without the life support?

Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down

 

Take the strain! Do you wear strife

Take the strain! Like a clown?

Take the strain! Or accumulate

Take the strain! With a frown?

 

Take the strain!

 

Are you the animal

That escapes the snares and traps?

Bearing no quarry scars, and the hunter'scrown

 

We were taught to follow leaders - followleaders!

Never to challenge the singular pack

The goals they set slip the grasp - slipour grasp!

Chasing tails without the basic facts

 

Choose full pain, voilate, make the grade

Taut wires frey, electro-brain, take thestrain!

 

We were taught to follow leaders - followleaders!

Never to challenge the singular pack

The goals they set slip the grasp - slipour grasp!

Chasing tails without the basic facts

 

DIATRIBES

 

Bite the bit, scream till you're blue inthe face

 

Nice pipe dreams or passive revolution?

 

Foot soldiers

With weapons of placards and banners

How will they stop the rot?

 

No standing to reason

'cause reason is treason

It doesn't seem feasible

 

Lie down

And cry all you can

The machine rolls over you

 

It just don't seem feasible - no!

 

Black face to Nazi - try pleading affinity

Hands up, boot in, shattering the passivedream

But is it right to tolerate this fuckeddemocratic process?

 

Shattering the passive dream

 

Is it 'cause we like to hear the soundof our own voice?

Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma

Time to return compliments, shatteringthe passive dream?

 

PLACATE, SEDATE, ERADICATE

 

Lead the burden across my shoulders

Pour the effluent on thick

 

Placate, sedate, eradicate

Am I worthy to carry the weight?

 

Wage a war on my prone feelings

Anaesthetised and numb

 

Placate, sedate, eradicate

Strangely calm when I should be enraged

 

Placate, sedate

Placate, sedate

Eradicate

 

Don't befriend the silver screen

As long as others face / firing lines

Recline, relax take it / in your stride

Be the voyeur

 

Tamed by rabid entertainers

Engrossed in real life hell

 

Placate, sedate, eradicate

Only observing - I'm exempt

 

CORROSIVE ELEMENTS

 

Staying on an even keel

Keeping a gauge

Sanity hangs in the balance

(I) could go either way

 

Cerebral half life

The darkest summer days

My pressure defences melting away

 

'Cause I can't level this brimming, seethingdread

My pressure defences melting away

 

With anxiety I'm burning!

 

Stripping down to the core

 

Corrosive elements inducing

Corrosive elements that sap being

Corrosive elements inducing

Corrosive elements that sap being (x2)

 

Corrosive elements - joy toxin

Corrosive elements - please cleanse me!

Corrosive elements - joy toxin

Corrosive elements - please cleanse me!(x2)

 

 

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