1. _ God's Love
Striking at mental apparitions
Like a drunk on a vacant street
Silently beset by the hands of time
Indelicate in its fury
An aberrant crack as skeletons yield
To unrelenting gravity
While viruses prowl for helpless victims
Who succumb rapidly
(Tell me!) Tell me; where is the love?
In a careless creation
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2. _ Beyond Electric Dreams
No one here can show you where it is but I can point to a sign
On the roof of the world without apparent design
The frozen definition of a lunatic ambition to rise
The air is thin, the future dim, dimension hard to find
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets
Intercepted by a human being
Ratioclination is a practicable way to derive
An attitude of altitude and probity by which to abide
Or maybe of the a theophany of flaming creosote in disguise
The air is thin, the future dim, dimension undefined
Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain, eons have a human ring
The conversation of impassive planets
Intercepted by a human being
Here glaring cold in the crystalline geometry of night,
Obscuring form and tracing faceless fears
Of a suprahuman immensity in a patch of sand
Or a raptors guileless shivering intensity,
I'm only a visitor,
And atom of atoms on a jutting red splattered synagogue of granite
As it crouches literally in space,
A frozen amoral giant gazing heavenward forever
Let's go where the raptor goes to the mountain in a cosmic glow
We'll have a genuine terrestrial show on a mountain - on a mountain
Let's scan the horizon clean for any trace of human schemes
And try to touch upon immortal themes on a mountain - on a mountain
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3. _ Atheist Peace
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4. _ Let Them Eat War
there's a prophet on a mountain and he's making up dinner
with long division and writing crop
anybody can feel like a winner
when it's served up piping hot
but the people aren't looking for a handout
they're America's working corps
can this be what they voted for?
let them eat war [x2]
that's how to ration the poor
let them eat war [x2]
there's an urgent need to feed
declining pride
from the force to the union shops
the war economy is making new jobs
but the people who benefit most
are breaking bread with their benevolent hosts
who never stole from the rich to give to the poor
all they ever gave to them was a war
and a foreign enemy to deplore
let them eat war [x2]
that's how to ration the poor
let them eat war [x2]
there's an urgent need to feed
declining pride
we've got to kill 'em and eat 'em
before they reach for their checks
squeeze some blue collars
let them bleed from their necks
seize a few dollars from the people who sweat
cause it's freedom or death and they won't question it
at a job site the boss is god like
conditioned workhorses park at a stoplight
seasoned vets with their feet in nets
a stones throw away from a rock fight
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5. _ The Empire Strikes First
We strike first
and we're unrehearsed
here we go again
to stage the greatest show on heaven and earth
come on, get your money's worth
don't wanna live
(can't live)
don't wanna give
(can't give)
don't wanna be
(won't be)
E-M-P-I-R-E
don't wanna live
don't wanna be
E-M-P-I-R-E
We're comin on fast
and we're built to last
we stumbled once in 'Nam
now we're glad to finally say
those days have passed
tell me how long can it last!
don't wanna live
(can't live)
don't wanna give
(can't give)
don't wanna be
(won't be)
E-M-P-I-R-E
don't wanna live
don't wanna be
E-M-P-I-R-E
We just started out
you don't need to be afraid
yeah you deserve two minutes hate
Well, we spit and we cursed and our bleeding hearts burst
but even ten million souls
marching in February couldn't stop the worst,
couldn't reverse
don't wanna live
don't wanna give
don't wanna be
E-M-P-I-R-E
don't wanna live
don't wanna be
E-M-P-I-R-E
i can't live
if it isn't with you
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6. _ Los Angeles Is Burning
somewhere high in the desert near a curtain of a blue
St. Anne's skirts are billowing
but down here in the city of the lime lights
the fans of santa ana are withering
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7. _ Boot Stamping On A Human Face Forever
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8. _ The Quickening
The quickening is an ephemeral thing
That only happens in the dark
Like catching lightning in a jar
And the pain that it brings
Is just the promise of spring
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9. _ All There Is
This song goes out
to all the hopeless sinners,
with grave allegiances,
so meaningless and vain,
The walking wounded in a pagent of contenders
Who balance on a rail of pain for just a pail of rain
And everything is barely mist, blood relations and bricks
my expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson, more than this,
once again, like a bullet as a friend, tell me: can that be all there is?
In my rectory of doubt, I kneel to pray like one devout,
As time the great gray dreamless sleep of a useless modern god
erodes away each storied day as wretched Adams with hell to pay
Content upon a rail of pain for just a little rain.
And everything is dearly missed, blood relations and bricks
my expression, my confession, add it up, extract a lesson, more than this,
once again, like a bullet as a friend, tell me: can that be all there is?
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10. _ Sinister Rouge
Innocents burned,
alive at the stake
Tortured and dumped
In nameless graves
Centuries wane
Authority died
Scattering seeds of ancient lies
Sinister rouge
Coming back for more
To even the score
Sinister rouge
Coming back for more
To even the score
Child molesters
And Jesuits
Holding secret conference
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11. _ Social Suicide
Right now
Well it's finally time to face my fears
Gunna get the hell out of here
And create a fresher atmosphere
But the consequences clear
There's a furnace set on high
And a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Like you
Perserverence is a useless tool
Just a patron on a ship of fools
Feigning interest in the cast and crew
Why you've broken every single rule
There's a furnace set on high
And a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
Shadows entertain the unwashed masses
Scholars explain their numb reactions
I don't even know if I can ever find truth
but I'm sure it won't come from following you
There's a furnace set on high
And a yearning undefined
But it's time to turn the tide
It's social suicide
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12. _ To Another Abyss
Not long ago, and yet the image is so vague
I hesitate to label it a memory
There was a show of local color and I felt astray
Cause I had nothing to offer but insufficiency
And you know that it |
13. _ Live Again - The Fall Of Man
The road is narrow, the horizon wide
And to say what |
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