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 force without 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 falling at your feet The path is long sad agonizing being dragged on your knees ...and the silver spoon in your mouth tastes spoilt with rust When all that glitters isn't gold and fortunes turn 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 peace of 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, then pull you six feet down, And you're branded with the stigma, unusable dropouts ...and with inspiration ravaged, you take the final bow, The creative demeanor shattered into a million 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's crown We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders! Never to challenge the singular pack The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp! Chasing tails without the basic facts Choose full pain, voilate, make the grade Taut wires frey, electro-brain, take the strain! We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders! Never to challenge the singular pack The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp! Chasing tails without the basic facts DIATRIBES Bite the bit, scream till you're blue in the 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 passive dream But is it right to tolerate this fucked democratic process? Shattering the passive dream Is it 'cause we like to hear the sound of our own voice? Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma Time to return compliments, shattering the 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, seething dread 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! 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