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Saturday, 31 May 2025
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
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
Friday, 30 May 2025
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
Thursday, 29 May 2025
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
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
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
Man Who Fell To Earth
Man who fell to earth (2x)
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
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
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.
Friday, 23 May 2025
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
Wednesday, 21 May 2025
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