from the album "Elect the Dead"
EMPTY WALLS
Your empty walls.Pretentious attention, dismissive apprehension, don't waste your time on coffins today.
When we decline from the confines of our mind, don't waste your time on coffins today.
Don't you see their bodies burning, desolate and full of yearning, dying of anticipation, choking from intoxication?
I want you to be left behind those empty walls, taunt you to see from behind those empty walls.
I loved you yesterday, before you killed my family.
Don't you see their bodies burning, desolate and full of yearning, dying of anticipation, choking from intoxication?
I want you to be left behind those empty walls, I taught you to see from behind those empty walls,
From behind those fucking walls, from behind those goddamn walls, those walls.
THE UNTHINKING MAJORITY
We don't need your democracy, execute them kindly for me, take them by their filthy nostrils, put them up in doggie hostels.We don't need your hypocrisy, execute real democracy, post-industrial society, the unthinking majority.
Anti-depressants, controlling tools of your system, making life more tolerable.
I believe that you're wrong, insinuating they hold the bomb, clearing the way for the oil brigade.
MONEY
Money, all for money, save your money, hide your money, stuff your money, hump your money, keep your money, all for money.Waning patience, people's appetite, disposition, this possession.
Dispossessed from all the attractions, dancing bears of eroticism, self-absorbed delusion, inclusion of dysfunction,
I now await the triumphant, lost baggage, train station.
The causes of ineptitude can be traced to my mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude can be traced to the tyranny of
Money, all for money, save your money, hide your money, stuff your money, hump your money, keep your money, all for money.
My final surrender, away from inclusion, I now await the triumphant, left baggage, train station.
The causes of ineptitude can be traced to my mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude can be traced to the tyranny of a down.
The causes of ineptitude can be traced to my mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude can be traced to the tyranny of money
FEED US
Maybe we believe she was ready to go in the morning light.Maybe you believe that she was made of gold in the east where you killed her;
You lead us when you need to feed us, you comfortably delete us when you need your foetus.
You cheat us when you feed us with the lie, stars look out, goodbye.
She speaks unrehearsed languages from skin in the morning light,
Painting shadows on the faces of the dead in front of their widows.
You cheat us when you feed us with the lie, stars look out and
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie, before its too late.
Do you know that life is ending, as we go, the dots connecting?
We had our chance to save the garden; as it dies, our souls will harden.
With these words chastising your conscience, we're breaking through and praying for transcendence, but you deceived us all now.
You cheat us when you feed us with the lie, stars look out.
SAVING US
Why do we sit around and break each others' hearts tonight?Why do we dance around the issues til the morning light?
When we sit and talk and tear each others' lives apart, you were the one to tell me go,
But you were the one for me and now you're going through the door.
When you take that step, I love you baby more and more.
We need to laugh and sing and cry and warm each others' hearts tonight,
Observing the fun of everything and loving all of mother God.
You're tearing us, you're breaking us, you're killing us, you're saving us.
Forever alive, forever, never and ever again.
SKY IS OVER
Everybody knows that you cradle the sun, living in remorse, sky is over.Don't you want to hold me baby, disappointed, going crazy?
Even though we can't afford, the sky is over; I don't want to see you go, the sky is over.
Behind closed eyes lie, the minds ready to awaken you, are you at war with land and all of its creatures?
Your not-so-gentle persuasion has been known to wreck economies of countries, of empires, the sky is over.
Don't you want to hold me baby, disappointed, going crazy?
Not even from the sun, don't you want me to run.
Even though you can't afford, the sky is over; I don't want to see you go, the sky is over.
Even though we can't afford, the sky is over us.
BABY
You came to me within a dream, not everyone is who they seem, all these words we can't redeem,Like the great magic of our world, corroborated by your words, splitting planets into thirds.
Baby, I miss you.
To all the leaves that fall in vain while god and goddess go insane, all these words in your domain.
The watches kill time as the books read, inadvertently we bleed, fighting for what we deceive.
Baby, I miss you.
Leave me alone, now why can't you see that you always perturb me so?
Nearing the end of the world, just leave me alone.
HONKING ANTELOPE
Why don't you go photograph everything that ever passed in time?Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs, vanishing hereditary lines,
Poets gone wild on the muse, prophets all destroying the Tao.
When you see that honking antelope, the secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all.
Nature-based being will survive apocalyptic days of now,
Poets gone wild on the muse, prophets all destroying the Tao.
When you see that honking antelope, the secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all.
Run away with me now, my life.
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong; nature will survive us human dogs after all.
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong; wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song?
LIE LIE LIE
My baby, let me know, because you love me, let me go,And you're my lover, you pay me, twice my size, and on your knees you lay in my thighs.
Take my hand and let's end it all, she broke her little bones on the boulders below, take my hand and let's end it all.
My baby, let me go, and if you love me, let me go,
Cause I'm your brother, have some pride, and now you love me, then die tonight.
Take my hand and let's end it all, she broke her little bones on the boulders below,
Take my hand and let's end it all, broke her little bones on the boulders below,
And while she fell I delightfully said, 'Lie lie lie'.
She took my hand and I let her go, she broke her little bones on the boulders below,
Took my hand and she ended it all, broke her little bones on the boulders below,
And while she fell, I smiled.
PRAISE THE LORD AND PASS THE AMMUNITION
Come lay it down, won't you? Come burn it down, can't you?Lay it down, the guns above the ground.
Nlelith is a prophet, from the prophet came the king,
From the king came the pauper, from the pauper came the swing,
From the swing came creation, from creation came love, you don't know what this love is all about.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, life affirming and our spiritual trust.
Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu lost one hundred.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, people still ask when will Armageddon begin.
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter.
Nlelith is a prophet, from the prophet came the king,
From the king came the pauper, from the pauper came the swing,
From the swing came creation, from creation came love, you don't know what this love is all about.
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
Do we ever have enough when we see that blue dove?
We want to go where no one's been.
BEETHOVEN'S CUNT
Brushing, touching, feeling on your shoulders, believing, appealing, kneeling in your worlds, oceans are combined.Being that I love you so much, in the end they all will say, breaking someone else's heart again.
Find the little evil perpetrator and feed him to the hungry alligator.
You want it all, love is not about the profits nor the riches in your dreams,
The arms of time are breaking off, civilisation is on trial, the clocks eliminating time, do you believe in me?
I've been walking through these dead farms but I don't mind.
I've been screaming through these dead lungs, but I can't find.
Being that I love you so much, in the end they all will say, breaking someone else's heart again.
Find the little evil perpetrator and feed him to the hungry alligator.
You want it all, love is not about the profits nor the riches in your dreams,
The arms of time are breaking off, civilisation is on trial, the clocks eliminating time, do you believe in me?
But lately I've been blind, you leave me all alone, left in time,
You left me here to die, left in time, leave me all alone, left in time.
The arms of time are breaking off, civilisation is on trial, the clocks eliminating time, do you believe in nothing?
ELECT THE DEAD
Arms are raised above the sky, but all I want is me.You are there beside the night, but I all I want is me.
Love, we know, comes from inside, but all I want is me.
Death, we know, comes to us alive, but all I want is you.
Death, we know, comes to all of us alive, but all I want is you, all I need is you, all I want.
