Killing Joke  1980

 

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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

Change

You see
You feel
You know
React
You're waiting
You're waiting

Change

Complications

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
and i abandon all my need for explanation

Primitive

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
but when the animal takes hold feel forces outside my control

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
new man come along - go

The Wait

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

The wait

Tomorrow's World

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

War Dance

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
To 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
To 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
Look for a nationist command

A war dance

 
     
   

 

   

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