If I Ain't Got You

 [lost]

Heart Of Darkness

 Delusions of grandeur in bitter sight

Rotting inside, can't sleep at night

Violent imagery, flickering light

Heart of darkness in the English countryside

Counting pennies in the dark

Counting on winning the lottery

Moral obligation to let him wait

Vindication for keeping faith

\Parts of mason to make him scream

Starving children look away

Sneer across his twisted face

Ritually pure patriot

Hero worship the powerful

Killing animals just for fun

Crush rebellious underclass

Illusory control in toxic rage

Taking mass rinse since he learned to read 

Justified his wasted life

Lychmob tiny slimy grin

Bleeding victim schadenfreude

Get Outta Wood End

 Dark compulsion and there's trouble brewing up

There'll be burning and looting in this neighbourhood

Taxis won't come here and cops can't be found

They keep themselves in the nice part of town

Balls of fantasy belt at last

Go on home to your semi-detached wife

Get outta Wood End if you value your life

Electronic Wet Dream

 Anti-depressant TV screen

Union jack to you meaning

Trigger finger, power of life

Drones and robots control the sky

Complete detachment from the real world

Electronic wet dream

Fortune teller got no crystal ball

She knows your life don't mean fuck all

Elvis joined the army to forget

A million promises that can't be kept

Retreat into paranoia

Reprise the dark days of cold war

Terrorists enforce conformity

My DNA sequence don't control me

Devil King

 Well...

Thousand lifetimes of misery

Just one try to break free

Sick of turning the hamster wheel

Sick of repressing how I feel

Ain't gonna for for the devil king (2x)

Seen my foolishness, seen my pride

Look at all in a different light

Got my mantra and I got my guide

All geed up, now I need to fight

Desperation Express

 Lie down easy, it'll all be over soon

Just like in a dream, some things aren't meant to last

Suffering and pain, never had your due

Desperation express coming down the track

Low, soft music in a darkened room

Pinch of brown, and a needle and a spoon

Take everything, you just gotta relax

Desperation express coming down the track

Desperation express to liberation

Oblivion's the name of the next station

Don't need a ticket, don't need a fare

Still gonna cost an arm and a leg

Thief and small force mercies, not mean in this life

Things gonna get dark and bloody before the white light 

Desperation express coming down the track

Velvet jacket suit and a frilly shirt

Soho destination and a rich, old jerk

Suffer degradation back on the meat rack

Desperation express coming down the track

Kick the habit, clean up once and for all

But they know where you live, gonna give you a call

Abandon hope in a hellish council flat

Desperation express coming down the track

Cabaret Of Flux

 [Lost]

Blue-green Bay

 Zero sum

Gotta escape, get away to blue-green bay

They can't keep me away from blue-green bay

One day they'll fence it off

I'll find a new spot

All Of Me

 You said that you loved me and wanted my heart

Together forever and never to part

Intimacy told, be as one breath

Together forever now until death

Shaven and hairless, disinfectant reek

Prepared for combining, no room for the weak

Strapping you down, stop you backing out

Your screams fill the theatre, but too late now

Local anaesthetic, want to stay awake

Surgeon's scalpel falls to a kidney-shaped tray

Table for two, I want you by my side

Soon will be one, bodies intertwined

 You said that you loved me and wanted my heart

Together forever and never to part

Intimacy told, be as one breath

Together forever now until death

Afghanistan

 Afghanistan (4x)

Fairytale eden leading to a culture of hate

Cradle of humanity to an early grave

When there's no more rubble left to shift around

Will anything grow in the blood-soaked ground?

Dreams and nightmares intertwined

A warlord's empires comically aligned

Man or men demanding sacrifice

Cycle of violence leaves no lives

21st Century Slave

Don't wanna be jailed if I don't conform

Don't wanna wear your uniform

Stick your contract where the sun don't shine

You got all the power, I ain't gonna sign

21st century (x3) Slave

 You talk about freedom but it's just bombast

You jail anyone who dares to speak out

Your juvenile daydreams come out of a gun

You call it holy but it's just fear and blood

Little Backwood On Sea

 There's never a frown

It isn't allowed

The doc'll give you a pill

Or something stronger still

Suburban bliss

Perfect families

Can't allow failure

Overdraft'll save yer

Your kinds will succeed 

At a school for the elite

Electrified fences

Anti-pleb defences

Sinister

 Clad head to foot in black leather and lace

She stands in silence by the cemetery gates

Blood red smile seems so insincere

Sinister (x4)

Dark  brown eyes that instil fear

She's so sinister

Keeps me wrapped in suspense and fear

Just one flash of those dark brown eyes

Fills me up with wild ideas

Disappearing act with the dawn

Nighttime creature skin so pale and drawn

Leggy fragments from within a haze

Reaching back to the most ancient of days

High heel staccato beat rising dawn

Blood lust envy pounding round my skull

Metallic taste of lost mercury dreams

Unfrocked preacher screams become obscene

Johnny Cool

 Black leather jacket

Got his hair greased back

Mirror aviator shades

Glistening chrome pipework

Leopardskin upholstery

On a 750cc frame

Pocket full of baggies

Heaven for the scagheads

Hanging out round the school gates

Keep the engine turning

Love to hear it purring

Maybe need a quick getaway

Working in a garage

Getting sacked for slacking

Summertime fairground rides

Pull a scared teenager

Who wants to flirt with danger

Needs excitement in her life

Teach how to give head

Though she doesn't want it

Get a little sadistic thrill

Pass her round his gangmates

Now they owe him favours

Sweetener for another deal

Never get high on your own supply

Meant number one in the animal life

Never learnt a fact since the day he left school

Ain't no messing with Johnny Cool

The higher you get the farther you fall

Law of the jungle, dog eat dog

Damaged

 Damaged by the thought of a global war

If it goes nuclear I'll be damaged more

Damaged by the terror threat all around

And the race hate dragging us down

Damaged by the pollution in the air

Permeates my body, needing repair

Damaged by the sea full of plastic trash

And our source of life drowning in crap

Damaged by all the quack remedies

Charlatans and dilettantes spreading disease

Damaged by all the conspiracy games 

Inventing demons where they can ly the blame

Damaged by the angry poisonous speech

Sliding out of mouths lacking self-esteem

Damaged by macho bullshit hate

And all the roidhead gym bunny rage

Damaged by all the computer screen stress

Profit extraction driven to excess

Damaged by financial anxiety

Demise of a conman society

She Hates Me

She hates me for wrecking her life

Failing to be her shiny white knight 

She blames me for our poverty

For all this life of misery

She wants to be a celebrity

Getting invited to A-list parties

She's stuck with me holding her back

A no-account third-rate man

She says I'm not aspirational

She wants a go-getter psychopath

Get all the money, trample underfoot

Those who'll never amount to much

A real man would buy her everything

Holidays and dresses, designer bling

Take her out to expensive bars

Where she could met her favourite stars

She hates me with a venom I can't explain

She hates me in a way that's almost insane

She hates me and she shows me non-stop contempt

She hates me and she wishes I was dead

Death In The Morning

 The moon and the stars have vanished away

Taking their dark-shrouded fantasies

Burning passion through to soft, warm alert

Pretty girl's smile , transport of delight

Barechest bravado and thrust of the chin

Two groups square off in eldritch ritual

Sliding back through evolution's mists

Flash of steel and the searing pain

White shirt yields to blood's escape

Like a red rose lying in the snow

Death in the morning comes too soon

Reluctantly he has to go

Sun is rising but light is dying

Everyone loses in a zero-sum game

Smell of chrome in a slick of fear

Last hours surrounded by tearful faces

Don't wanna leave with so little done

Tears of regret and groans of sorrow

Never touch her lips, never know her name

Won't be no loving bright tomorrow

Machine City

 Machine city has lost its dream (xloads)

Medicine Man

Yeah, sincere 

I'm the medicine man and I've got no need for sleep (2x)

I'll be at your bedside when the darkness is getting deep

Medicine man (2x)

 I'm the medicine man, gonna play tricks with your mind (2x)

I'll be you guru and shaman too - you're mine

I'm the medicine man and I unlock other worlds (2x)

Open up your eyes to another universe

[Unknown]

 It's another tequila sunrise

For the man with the bloodshot eyes

A consummate professional

At overing it all up with lies

Another fortnight missing

So he went to join the AA

One last stop at a bottle shop

And he died along the way

Teardrops mist the hostel hell

There'll never be a place like home

Judges took the house and kids away

For a wife with a heart of stone

Drunks and thieves are family now

White lightning a breakfast treat

Fights break out over trivia

Welcome to life on the street

Watch paralympics on the TV

Former comrades rebuild their lives

Self medicated with the curtains drawn

All his injuries are deep inside

Decorations from a pointless war

Some things no man should ever see

Done things to tear a soul apart

Bitter tears won't set you free

Respectable Married Man

 He's smart and well dressed

And drives a Mercedes Benz

'Cos he's a respectable married man

He's the manager man

At an investment bank

'Cos he's a respectable married man

And he lies

And he cheats

His blond trophy wife

Demands the high life

'Cos he's a respectable married man

She's all botox and bleach

And clings on like a leach

'Cos he's a respectable married man

He gets down in the dirt with his secretary bird

He tells his lies about leaving his wife

'Cos he's a respectable married man

They scream and they fight every Saturday night

She breaks down and cries and she hides the black eyes

'Cos he's a respectable married man

Suck On this, Satan (Inspired by Chris 'Stax' Wallis)

Punched my card in the slot in every shit job

From here to Bangalore I've cleaned for the rich

And shovelled their shit when I've been poor

Worked in the snow and rain when I was in pain

Been on the sausage roll, felt like I had no goal again and again

Swallowed my anger and switched off my brain

Fighting depression, it all feels insane

I've stoods it till now but I won't stands it no more

Suck on this, satan, I won't do your bidding no more

Suck on this, satan, I'm walking through that open door

Been on the breadline, down in the saltmines

Worked my fingers to the bone

Bleached by fluorescent light and cathode ray nights

Till my colour's all gone

Ripped off by bankers and government cronies

And left in the blackest hole

Render unto caesar every last bit of silver

But you ain't gonna get my soul.

 

24 Hours

 Terraced house squalor, uncool boy

Tropical elysium, magnetic vice

Morally repugnant, life on the road

Isolation storm clouds, roll the dice

Twenty four hours too late

Twenty four hours to wait

Revolution of the clock into fate

Pressure cooker puritan coal fire town

Adolescent teardrops running in the rain

Passport into freedom, aluminium tube

Cabaret star gun for hire, walk of shame

Empty pocket, walk on by

Loss of face sheer disgrace, heart of ice

Death destruction ends illusion, open eyes

Fools and angels fall from grace, dead of night

Pearl Necklace

 Fashion's love doll with an ice cold face

Svelte and chic with a haughty disdain

Lives the life out of magazine pages

I'm just there to serve her secret tastes

She loves cream pies and daisy chains

Head girl at her convent school

Innocent smile had everyone fooled

Risking expulsion by breaching the rules

Couldn't escape the dark side's lure

Got a great deal from selling her soul

Looks immaculate in society

Needs adoration and needs to be seen

Whether cocktail dress or leather and jeans

Never suspect she rolls in mud with me

His Master's Voice

Hysterical shrieks of the tabloid press

Mask the silence of all the repressed

Make independent thought a heinous crime

Cynicism isolating the mind

It's a kneejerk reaction

Elimination of choice

Ensure obedience

To his master's voice

Pride in hard work stupidity

Praise the machine's profitability

Run the treadmill all the way downhill

Kid yourself you're doing well

Salute the flag and fuck all the rest

Twisted face of hate and contempt

Blame the foreigners for all your ills

Keep on tilting at windmills

Politics of insecurity

Keep control through anxiety

Teenage suicides out of stress

Just can't function without success

Paranoia and conspiracies

Quarantine the incurable disease

Military lockdown, entire system

Herd immunity gene restriction

Terror network growing by the day

Insane rejection of modernity

Criminalise all alternatives

Pressure cooker's gonna have to give

 

Whirlwind

 Schoolgirl rebel of suburbia

Love to play and sing

Ancient soul in teenage body

Hiding secret anxiety

Late night jam with jazz musicians

Daddy's baby growing up too soon

Little girl sings happy birthday

Grown up woman sings the blues

Life just like a whirlwind baby

Trying to blow back out of control

Jaded audience, new sensations

Giving out your heart and soul

Afraid to cause them disappointment

In the darkest corners so insecure

Moneyman shark-droids start to circle

Seeking blood of a superstar

Fail to see a fragile human

And her psychological scars

Zero Day

 Empty streets, darkened corners

Guilt racked survivors

Cower and hide away

Our yesterdays uploaded

Online paradise, system failure

Dreamless sleep eternal

Deserted robot factories

Dejected low consumers

Declining asset values

One more final solution

Eliminate the workless

Overdosed on some dreams

Getting more deserted every day

Middle Eastern war is here to stay

Battle scars of cannon fodder

Contradicting market glamour

Our rulers are demanding zero day

Nicotine

 In a world full of pain and stress

There's a little something to help you forget

Living in fear of the Communist threat

You'd better light another cigarette

It's a cruel friend, nicotine

Gonna be your death, nicotine

Dreams of suave style sophistication

In a morass swamped with alienation

Fantasising your material success

The adoration of the opposite sex

Starting out from schoolyard addiction

Forty years of painful affliction

Orange fingers and sickly bad breath

Making inroads till no control is left

Cough and choke to start every day

But all your pay gores up in flames

Looking ancient long before your time

Lung disease has leaked away your life

Scared to death and sinking deep in gloom

You light up one to digest the news

Local I.C.U. lying all alone

Exhausted family go back home

Ventilator purrs so gently

Drip feed morphine and chemotherapy

It Came From The Sewer

 Biohacker student creating life

Internet genes and some DIY

Just another failed experiment

Flush it down the lav with the excrement

Woman next door having an abortion

Don't want children, she's too important

Teenage boy gonna ruin his sight

Pulls the chain on his great delight

It came from the sewer, spreading death

It came from the sewer, with really bad breath

It came from the sewer, looking for a mate

Misshapen monster full of lecherous hate

Protozoan lifeforms engulf all the waste 

Human refuse ideal for their taste

Mutating rapidly and joining into one

Humanoid shape with tentacles galore

Seventeen eyes and twenty-seven legs

A mouthful of fangs and toxic breath

Methane gas belching out the back

Oozing slime and leaving tracks

Mating hormones flood its primitive brain

Desire for sex drives it insane

Squelch and slurp to the Kansas town

Pheromone trail draws it down

Dorothy in her bedroom with a gingham dress

Picture of a popstar pressed to her breast

Dorothy struggles with all her might

But the thing engulfs her in a ton of slime

Briefly registering terrible dread

Asphyxiation leaves her brain dead

Swamp monster sperm throughout her form

Makes her pregnant with inhuman spawn

Hospital bed on life support

Incubation host till the thing is born.

Pterodactyl (song)

 Unblinking eye and seeming stone

Scanning the streets from its eyrie throne

Scorching heat where few dare go

Mother and pram in the street below

Hunger-driven primal need

Scour the streets for chance to feed

Reptile launched in a graceful arc

Furiously pumping black blood heart

Remaining few hard flight feathers

Extended out from body of leather

Sweep the sky and pound once more

Baby clasped in a terrible claw

Mother's hopeless anguished screams

Wakes the man in the wall from distant dreams

Rifle loaded and raised to jaundiced eye

Unleashes pointless shots at the sky.

Van Helsing

The age of parasites is over (2x)

 

Discarding all distractions

That would cloud his mind

Decadent aristocracy

Has distorted his life

Sunset in the west

Challenges his quest

A lifelong quest for justice

Disdaining revenge

A war against superstition

And the living dead

Blood of innocents is taken

For unnatural lives

Whole wide world forsaken

For sake of vampires

The Unborn

 Looking all around this sterile lab

Suspended in a prison test tube rack

In a solution that's no solution

Kinda like a womb with a chilling view

This isn't really where I want to be

But my crackhead mother never really wanted me

Could't abort but she could do a deal

For an embryo they said would never feel

Making preparations for a nuclear war

Building warsuits for conquest afterwards

Making biosystems to control machines

Only thing that's onna survive the E.M.P.

Dripping additions in my glass prison cell

Mindfucking chemical mutagens

Become a creature full of rage and hate

Only the truly paranoid can make the grade

El Diablo

Absorbing all the gamma rays

Pouring through the fallout haze

Walking through the wilderness

The legend, el diablo

Exiled from all that's pure and clean

High priest detected the faulty gene

Walk of shame from the city's locked gates

Heir to world that's poisoned, hot waste

Fallout mutation wasteland safe zone

Leader of the accursed all across the world

Fight back against the pureblood control

Fascist state system Inhuman rule

Bloodline perverted by unholy war

Nuclear and bio, twenty years and more

Hiding in shelters deep underground

Not all are human by the time they come out.

Someone's gonna get resurrected tonight

 Phone the vatican for an exorcist just in case

Our souls are sold for riches, eternal youth and fame

Case of posession across the town

Sixteen year old's spinning round

Someone's gonna get resurrected tonight

Graveyard shroud holds together rotting flesh

Stumbling around with a bolt through his neck

Killing randomly, out of control

Bloodlust creature got no soul 

Someone's gonna get resurrected tonight

Something to do if you're bored on a Saturday night

Nacromancy's fun if you're not the sort to get a fright

Naked bodies and headless chickens

Gonna make the pulse rate quicken

The dead will walk on a full moon Saturday night

Someone's gonna get resurrected tonight

Motorbike Zombie

 Held together by rotting leather

And string and turtle wax

Survival comes at the price of life

After a biological attack

Piston shafts n place of a heart

And a bloodstream full of gas

Conscience gone the way of his brain

Burnt out with the blast

Searching for prey along the motorways

Run them off the road

Loves the meek, can eat for a week

Off a family carload

Instils fear when he drops a gear

Don't matter if you've been good

Ignores the redline braindead deadline

Leaving a trail of blood

No way back, our world is fucked

'Cos no-one thought it through

All they saw was greed and power

They really hadn't a clue

Poison veins, our world is insane

Humanity is on its way out

Paranoia hatched, the world's destroyed

And no-one can stop him now.

Gobba Joe

 Lost in fishcane travelling hat

Hey, Gobber Joe, Gobber Joe, Gobber Joe (x4)

What can you do?
Speed it up (x4)

Everything's gone blank
Speed it up (x4)

Everything will get much worse
Speed it up (x4)

Crawl, crawl, crawl

Thousand years of subjugation

Thousand years of rank stagnation
Boot on the neck from off the king
And all his vassal underlings
Insisting on all his rights
Even demands you go and fight
Teaching you how to be his fool
Humiliation making you crawl

Make me crawl
Feel so small
Like you got my head up on a wall
Make me crawl

Three hundred years of peasant clearance
Three hundred years of mass slave trading
Dispossessed from all your rights
Begins the long and bloody night
Mass slaughter and genocide
Eco-doom and suicide
Riding rough-shod over populations
Justifying exploitation

Working in a factory ten hours a day
Forced to church every sunday
Sickness and rickets affect you all
Sugar from the colonies prevents your fall
Kids have to keep their keep
Four in the morning when they should sleep
Sell your labour to avoid the streets
Poor law code sanctions the weak

Capital's gone to overseas neighbours
Taking advantage of cheap labour
Factories attract cobwebs and rust
Machines under a mountain of dust
Commodities cheap, buy don't repair
Landfills grow, households scarce
Consumers programmed by marketing droids
Ethical principles must be destroyed

Prey

 Corpse of the old world

Built on structures of the new
A toxic wasteland
Where hyenas run on through

Roadkill on a path to nowhere - prey
Don't wanna live in a climate of fear - prey

Societal breakdown
Under austerity's iron rule
Youths that get no pleasure
Think it's cool

My mind's on overdrive
But my body's decayed
Psychos desire to enslave you
Everything's crumbling and faded
Don't imagine anyone's gonna save you

Unfulfilled desire
Leads to frustration
Video game psychosis
Breeds more sadists

Ceasefire

Standing on the brink

Brink of the abyss
Geiger counter clicks
Wake up

For humanity's sake
Call a ceasefire
Though the arms trade quakes
Call a ceasefire

Hatred leaves a gap
Where your heart once was
Cycle of revenge
Breaks all

Responsible men
Cry crocodile tears
Their confected rage
Swamps airwaves

Resurrection Man

 Don't call me grave robber

I'm a man of science
People call me murderer
They're just spreading lies

Resurrection man
Your body is mine
Resurrection man
I'll have you when you die

Prowling round the dark alleys
Like within a dream
Softly hissing gaslighting
No one can hear you scream

Doctors they all pay me well
I spend it all on booze
If I ever get convicted
I'll face the hangman's noose

After death I'll get dissected
A form of irony
My skeleton will be on view
Immortality

Neurotransmitter

 The mask is shattered

The image destroyed
No one going nowhere
There can be no surprise

Neurotransmission
Electrochemical pulses
In your brain
All you think and feel

Fools and cadavers
Are said to disappear
Parasites drink dopamine
In a climate of fear

The mirror is broken
The camera destroyed
The model unattractive
Their disguise is exposed

Objets diabolique (x2)

The spaceship's departed
The aliens unimpressed
Last season's fashion
Has loaned you the dress

Twist Of The Knife

 If you hadn't been you

Then who would have been you?
The question of identity
Is thoroughly confused

Another twist of the knife
No telling what your life
Might have been like
In another reality

Don't waste your life
On what might've been
Just focus instead
On your reality

Daydreams and fantasies
Castles in the sand
Build strong foundations
Under them

Abandoned Tower [Lyrics by ChatGPT]

 In the desert sands, it stands alone

A tower of stone and forgotten bones
Once grand and proud, now a haunting throne
For spirits lost and the unknown

Abandoned tower, your darkness calls
Whispers in the wind, eerie and tall
Lost to time, forsaken walls
Echoes of a past that still enthralls

Once a place of power and might
Now shadows dance in the fading light
Ghosts of the past, lost in flight
Their sorrow lingers in the night

The sun beats down on your dusty walls
The sand claims your rooms and halls
Whispers of the wind through empty stalls
Memories lost in the desert's thralls

In the desert sands, it stands alone
A tower of stone and forgotten bones
A haunting beauty, a forgotten throne
A place where the lost and lonely roam

Mad Parade

 What the hell can be wrong with me?

Not joining in the party in the streets
Tug your forelock if you've got one
Skinhead nation's idea of fun

Pantomime, nursery rhyme
Living off the proceeds of violent crime
Please don't let it rain on the mad parade
Superstitious toothless want to have their glory day

Eighteenth century fancy dress
Trying to digest an Eton mess
Fantasyland history theme park
The future compressed into the past

Thousand years of foul oppression
Always plotting for your succession
Thousand years of inbred warlords
Ruling through blood and the sword

Consecrated oil from Jerusalem
Miracles claimed in order to befuddle 'em
Clergy have ways of making you kneel
Happy new year, thirteen twenty-three

Carbon Tetrachloride

 I'm a chemistry buff

I make it on my own
It's volatile stuff
To make it on your own

Carbon - carbon tet - carbon tetrachloride

Carbon tetrachloride
Makes for strange nightlife
Breeds gigantic smiles
A snort is suicide

I tend to fantasise
Carbon tetrachloride
My mind's deranged
From carbon tetrachloride

I sleep in short naps
I dream fluorescent dreams
Everything is broken
All official schemes

Urban Neurosis

 Walking along deserted streets

City's neural network sleeps
Rain is pouring, wash my sins away
They'll reappear some other day

Urban neurosis (x2)

Giant structures plunge to decay
Painted with a smiling face
Cables trawling tentacle-like
Brain fog distorts my inner sight

Nostalgia for unknown lands
Under the rays of a dying sun
Hurtling particles 'cross the speed of light
Causes artefacts out of time

(I Don't Want To) Get Drunk At Christmas

 Time of year of good cheer

Drunkenness and gluttony
Selfishness abounds
There's nothing on the telly

Get drunk
I don't want to
This Christmas

Get together with your family
Arguments and hypocrisy
High time for revenge
There's nothing on the telly

Violence and broken teeth
Vicar talks of love and peace
Snoring through the queen's speech
There's nothing on the telly

It's so cold and dark outside
It's so cold and dark inside
Shivering by candlelight
There's nothing on the telly

Disturbances In The Aether

 So how could they know

We were living on an airforce base
In absolute secrecy?

Strange occurrences
Throughout the land
No coincidence,
There is no plan

Electromagnetic
Disturbance
In the aether

Bizarre haircuts
Glorifying
Military prowess

Grind The Earth

 Grind the earth and grind the clay

Never stop it, come what may

Fire and flood and plague and drought
Will strike again, there is no doubt

Plough the fields and reap the corn
Kill the king and crown the new born

Blood and death and fire and steel
Bones are broken, never to heal

Sun and moon and stars at night
Keep on watching, line of sight

Praise the new born, praise the day
Praise the new born, the 1st of May

Wanna Die On My Motorbike (Tonight)

 I'm obnoxiously sly

I creep around at night
Shades always hide my eyes
I wanna die on my motorbike ‐ tonight

I don't wanna think my waist is out of control
I don't wanna think I may be going bald

Got no empathy, I'm a psychological mess
Got no boundaries, I take things to excess

Product placement, youth rebellion
(we saw it on TV)
Infotainment, mass production
(it must be real)

Got no pension, I don't wanna save
In my youthtime, wanna go to an early grave

Got no willpower, I'm advertising's slave
Into consumption, spending's all I crave

Decline

 Look so cool but you're getting older

Never felt any weight on your shoulders

You've lost it (x2)
Ever get the feeling your time is over?
Gonna be on the scrapheap now
Ever get the feeling your time is over?
Loss of face is not allowed

Heroes of your youth all well past their best
Think on it and you'll get depressed

Signed away your soul for a little success
Bragging to your mates about all your excess

All your wealth has gone up in smoke
Leaving you alone with your fragile ego

Let It Rot

 Bai lan (x2)

Can't get out of bed today
I'm too hungover
Gonna have to let me stay
Let me sleep over

So not part of the scene - I'm alien
Don't let me into your dreams - I'm alien
Let it rot in all its glory
Let it rot for all your days
Wounds and scars, same old story
Decomposing in blood and pain

Can't come in to work today
I'm bored to insanity
Sick of all your glass bead junk
Can't appeal to my vanity

Won't compete for your glittering trash
Empty junk accumulates
Dog-eat-dog insanity
While it all disintegrates

Exploitation

 There's never escape, exploitation

You feel it in your bones, exploitation
Across the generations, exploitation
It's all you'll ever know

Crisis of faith
Crisis of confidence
This juncture of fate
Nothing will remedy
Too little, too late
Old ways of thinking
The "good old days"
Trapped by nostalgia

Work till you drop
The greatest deception
It's never enough
Increase consumption
Keep up with your friends
Brag about conquests
Tissue of lies
Darwinian contest

Theft, extortion, intimidation, false imprisonment, exploitation
Segregation, rationalisation, mind control, memories implanted, exploitation

Making me sick
Making me feel pain
Toxic waste
Throughout the foodchain
Unable to sleep
Barbaric news broadcast
Fighting or flight
Neurotically strung out

Get Hungry

 You're suffering from bloat

Only one solution
Get hungry (2x)

You never listen to a word I say
I'm not gonna say it anyway
Get hungry (2x)

Hunger excites the primal pathways
Hunger excites reptilian centres
Hunger causes revolutions
Hunger inspires the great inventors

Everything's running out
Everything apart from debt
Get hungry (2x)

Increasing price of food
It's gonna get to you soon
Get hungry (2x)

Sahara's heading north
It's gonna get to you soon
Get hungry (2x)

Fields are full of nuclear waste
They're infertile anyway
Get hungry (2x)

Who Wants To Go Outside?

 Outside only violence and war

Who knows what they're fighting for
On the streets bloodshed, terror and fear
Take one look, gotta end in tears

Who wants to go outside? (x2)

Ambulance screams and flashing lights
Victim will never last the night
Skies are full of fumes and drones
Afraid to go out on my own

Losing interest in the outside world
Concrete ugliness crushes my soul
Broken machinery piled up around
Lost in time without a sound

Viruses, rain and forest fires
The whole world's become a funeral pyre
Inheritance of a poisoned chalice
Drain the dregs of poison and malice

I Wake Up On The Settee

{inspired by mis-hearing the Fall's "I Wake Up In the City"] 

I wake up on the settee

About half past three
My head's full of static
Coming from the TV

I wake up on the settee
Road cone on my head
Hazard lights all a-flashing
My mind full of dread

Early abasement leaves such scars
Penetrating right through to my heart
Tropical island dreams so far away

I wake up on the settee
Bad taste in my mouth
Embarrassing memories
That I can't work out

I wake up on the settee
Curry stains on my shirt
Covered in cuts and bruises
Covered in grazes and dirt

I'm such a great disappointment to my folks
Feels like I've let down all their hopes
Tropical island dreams so far away

I wake up on the settee
To debris all around
Ashtrays overflowing
A line of empty cans

I wake up on the settee
The world has gone insane
Psychopathic leaders
Don't wanna play their game

Tightrope

 Feel like I'm treading on a tightrope

Future generations need to have hope
Feel like we're treading on a tightrope
Stress and despair hit those that can't cope

Pleasure zone
Can't call it home
Work and consume
Obscure the gloom

Perpetual war
Murder and gore
Imperial fantasy
Flight from reality

Offshore money, dark money
Is buying up time
Funny, nothing funny
About a culture of crime
Dead rock, our legacy
Will be our graves
Arrogance, our nemesis
Will make us slaves

Toxic shock
Lethal smog
Choking kids
Gotta let us breathe

Old World Order

 Temperature's rising, ticking time bomb

Ice caps melting, it's all gone wrong
Fossilised fuels and fossilised thought
Congestion choking the arteries
Energy wasted producing nothing
Debt poverty, permanent crisis

Get out of the way, you haven't a clue
Just part of the old world order
Fawning over the dinosaurs
Your time is over

Million species facing extinction
Monoculture, mass eviction
Ever growing garbage pile, plastic jellyfish filling the ocean
Clubs of old boys talking rubbish
A study in complete irrelevance

Dust of empires, blood soaked banners
Pointless slaughter, glory scammers
Iron age ethics in an A.I. realm
Ancient authority staggers on
Dull-eyed cavemen in a theme park home
T.V. induced childishness

Misdirection

 Choking, furious, blind to reason

Burning up inside, obsessed with treason
Misdirection, whole world's sliding down

Rich get richer, poor grow hungry
Cognoscenti turn to junkies
Misdirection, everything's burning down

Broken fragments of dead men's dreaming
Myths and legends of dark believing
Honour and empire and ludicrous banners
Hallowed allegiance to pure insanity

Mouth and trousers, fragile ego
Petrol engine, backward we go
Misdirection, look the other way

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
Rose tinted glasses, loop repeating
Misdirection, praise the good old days