Here are all their lyrics: -------------------------- in_case_you_didnt_feel_like_showing_up land.of.rape.and.honey mind.is.a.terrible.thing.to.taste misc.singles psalm.69 twitch -----------------CUT HERE-------------------------- Ministry In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live) (c) 1990 1. The Missing the missing, the missing, the missing, the missing, they took him away the last nights, the sinking shunned, the last rites, of what we have done so watch yourself, and watch what you say, they'll all die, so watch yourself he takes a look at death, they can't control, the missing, the missing the missing, they took him away, they took him away watch yourself, the missing, the missing, the missing, watch yourself the missing, watch yourself, the missing, watch yourself, the missing they took him away the last nights, the terror's come, the last rites, of what we've controlled so watch yourself, and watch what you say, they'll all die, so watch yourself he takes a look at death, they can't control, the missing, the missing the missing, they took him away, they took him away watch yourself, watch yourself, watch yourself, they took him away 2. Deity tell me something, if you can say no, he comes for me, he comes for me he comes for me, diety, diety, diety, diety it wouldn't matter, looking for someone, he comforts me, he comforts me diety (chorus) resurrection, coming in stereo, if you say so, if you say so, he comes for me blood and wine, tv divinity, he covets me, he covets me, diety (chorus) 2x 3. So What "You have had all that money can give you, but that wasn't enough. You became a thrill-seeker. Kill for the thrill. (assassin) This thrill-seeking became the one great thing in your life, planning one thrill on another until the murder. Kill for the love of killing. (guilty) Kill for the thrill. The thrill-seeker comes from all walks of life. He comes from the home, a home where the parents are to busy to treat their children with respect." Die! Die! Die! Die! Scum-suckers! Debility divulged! Anal fuck-fest, thrill Olympics Savage scourge supply and sanctify So what? So what? So what? So what? Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! Die! You said it! Sedatives supplied become laxatives My eyes shit out lies I only kill to know I'm alive So what? So what? So what? So what? Die! Die! Die! Die! "Kill for the thrill. (assassin) Some people think newspapers exaggerate juvenile crime. All that is defined mostly to the large cities, juvenile delinquency is underlined. Thus parents think something is going wrong with the environment. Adults create the world, children live it. Juvenile delinquency is always rooted in adult delinquency. And in this process, parents play the key role when children grow up among adults who refuse to recognize anything that is fine and good, or worthy of respect." Die! Die! Die! Die! So what, it's your own problem to learn to live with Destroy us, or make us slaves We don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late A screaming headache on the promised age Killing time is appropriate To make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say So what? So what? So what? So what? Die! Die! Now that I know what it's like, I'll kill them all if I like Only time will decide No one listened to reason, it's too late and I'm ready to fight So what? Now I'm ready to fight! I'm ready to fight! (x4) Fight! (x4) So What? (x6) 4. Burning Inside Will these dreams still follow me When the dark comes, curing time Can't you see it off in the sky It kicks you in the face and sucks you dry You never had the answers and now you tell me a pack of lies I really couldn't be bothered with you, Get out of my face, watch me die Burning inside! Burning inside! Absolution and a frozen rule All the dreams of men below I try to grab it, but the touch is hot The mirror collapses, the image may not I'm scared of the darkness in light I scare myself because I know I'm right I see the evil, the savagery That cuts right through the sky Burning inside! Burning inside! (x5) Call me the mantra with a blade in his skin Holding demons within I feel the pain as they start to decay The lesson never fades away Don't need no shadows, turn them away Become a man through the window pane Another slave and a victim of fate Another lesson in hate Burning inside! Burning inside! (x5) Burning inside! (x14) It's burning Inside! 5. Thieves Thieves, thieves and liars, murderers Hypocrites and bastards and lechers "Get up! Get up, get on your feet!" Hey, thanks for nothing Morals in the dust Two-faced intellectual cripples No trust "We are all fighting for a new race of man Not the race of these pigs And their racist society" Take off! Thieves! Liars! (x6) Inside, outside, which side we don't know My side, your side, their side, we don't know Who started it? Who started it? Who started abandoning abolishing hate? Who started it? Who started it? Who started affecting freedom? Inside, outside, which side we don't know My side, your side, their side, we don't know You're like a great big fucking cock Just waiting to get squeezed "We're gonna rip this mother fucker off We're gonna tear this mother fucker down" "Get up! Get up, get on your feet!" Breathe! Forfeit erection! Toxic our injection Geriatric fuck-fest With a scintillating lie "I hope they realize this is their last goddamn chance!" "Kill him!" "Kill, kill, kill ..." Take off! Thieves! Liars! (x4) Inside, outside, which side we don't know My side, your side, their side, we don't know Who started it? Who started it? Who started the fight between color and hate? Who started it? Who started it? Who started affecting freedom? Inside, outside, which side we don't know My side, your side, their side, don't wanna know You're like a really big hit of acid just waiting to be taken "Power to the people!" "Sieg heil!" "Power to the people!" "Police officer!" "Kill, kill, kill ..." "You will not kill!" "I like peace, you want peace" "I can't hear you, I still can't hear you!" 6. Stigmata You ran out of lies! You ran out of lies! Lies! Stronger than reason, stronger than life The only truth I know is the look in your eyes The look in your eyes! Just like a car crash, just like a knife My favorite weapon is the look in your eyes You ran out of lies! You ran out of life! You ran out of lies! Get out of my life! And I'm chewing on glass and tasting my fingers I'm not the one who's run out of lies, lies! You ran out of life! You ran out of time! Judging my faith and walking on splinters I lost my soul to the look in your eyes Your eyes! You ran out of lies! Ran out of time... Stigmata! You ran out of lies! Oh, you have empty eyes! (yes) Oh, you have empty lies! (yes) They told me nothing Nothing but lies! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck me! Fuck me! Fuck you! Fuck you! Fuck everyone! Fuck the church! Fuck Jesus! Fuck Mary! Fuck the Jews! Fuck the Bhuddists! Fuck the Hindus! Fuck George Bush! Fuck his ugly wife! Fuck Tipper Gore! Fuck everyone! Fuck Gorbachev! Fuck Noriega! Fuck all these assholes! Fuck you! Fuck me! Fuck all of you! Stigmata! Stigmata! Stigmata! Stigmata! They told me nothing but lies! Lies! Lies! Lies! Lies! Lyrics to Ministry's Land of Rape and Honey album. Included are: Stigmata The Missing Deity The Land Of Rape And Honey You Know What You Are I Prefer Flashback DISCLAIMER: These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not compelete. They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have. If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email. We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in! Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, indented below the current guess. Anything with a question mark next to it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong. Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes: Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu ======== Stigmata ======== stronger than reason stronger than lies the only truth i know is the look in your eyes the look in your eyes! just like a car crash just like a knife my favourite weapon is the look in your eyes you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! there's a ton locked in your empty eyes (there's nothing in your empty eyes) GET OUT OF MY LIFE! i'm chewing on glass and eating my fingers i'm not the one who's run out of lies lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of time! cutting my face and walking on splinters i lost my soul to the look in your eyes your eyes! you ran out of lies! you ran out of lies! you ran out of lies! you ran out of time! STIGMATA! o, you have empty eyes!... they tell me nothing, nothing but lies =========== The Missing =========== the missing he's missing... they took him away! the last days the sinking ship (the sinking shunned) the last rites of what we have done so watch yourself and watch what you say the martyr dies do what they say (so much they say) (so what's their take?) (or so they say...) he takes it for granted his time's gonna come (the dark will come) (they can't control) he's missing... they took him away! watch yourself! the missing! he's missing... they took him away! the last days the time has come the last rites of what we've become so watch yourself and watch what you say the martyr dies do what they say (so much they say) (so what's their take?) (or so they say...) he takes it for granted his time's gonna come (the dark will come) (they can't control) he's missing... they took him away! watch yourself! they took him away! ===== Deity ===== eyes open empty as halos he comes for me deity help- what's the matter? looking for someone? he comforts me deity resurrection coming in stereo if you say so he comes for me let's pray to tv divinity he covets me deity resurrection coming in stereo if you say so deity resurrection coming in stereo if you say so ========================== The Land of Rape and Honey ========================== face to face blood to blood the mountain you tumbled from (you talk about) (you sacrificed) (new sacrifice) and in the land of rape and honey you prey step by step you climb the mountain you prey fist to fist eye to eye the rulers of the wasteland and in the land of rape and honey you prey step by step you climb the mountain you prey head to head chest to chest which country is the very best? and in the land of rape and honey you prey step by step you climb the mountain you prey ===================== You Know What You Are ===================== don't try to reason no words, no words (no way, no way) i've seen it all before the prophets' age in history (the promised age in history) we make some people think that's all they need to get home now look into my eyes i've seen the light the star starts in the west we have until we cry ??? ??? i don't really like happy endings don't look into my eyes you're gonna die please don't kill me now (please just hear me out) in a house of guilty hate (in a house of ill repute) we go around in circles retaliate ignore the pain ignore the terror we saw the tears lost in their eyes ======== I Prefer ======== have you run into the human race have you run into the world have you run into the system and raised the white flag and raised the white flag exactly the way i prefer... flagellation! have you run into your head have you run into your world have you run into the human condition and raised the white flag and raised the white flag exactly the way i prefer... flagellation! i prefer flagellation! ========= Flashback ========= I'm gonna kill him I'm gonna break his face I'm gonna crack his skull I'm gonna kick it all in I'm gonna break his legs off I'm gonna rip his head off And then shit down his neck And then I'll laugh like a motherfucker And then I'll laugh like a motherfucker Cause I hate her! And then I'll fall past I'm gonna flashback Flashback! Cos i hate her! Pneumatic drill Right through her chest Bedroom punching Right through the rest I'm gonna make her suffer I'm gonna make her suffer And then watch her die Cos i hate her! And then i'll fall past I'm gonna flashback Flashback! Cos i hate her! I'm gonna rip her flesh I'm gonna piss in her face I'm gonna rip her open And then hit her with mace I'm gonna make her suffer I'm gonna make her suffer I'm gonna make her cry I'm gonna watch her die Cos i hate her! And then i'll fall past I'm gonna flashback Flashback! I hate her! Flashback! Laugh like a motherfucker! I'm gonna laugh like a motherfucker! Lyrics to Ministry's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste album. Included are: Thieves Burning Inside Never Believe Cannibal Song Breathe So What Test Faith Collapsing (duh!) DISCLAIMER: These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not compelete. They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have. If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email. We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in! Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, indented below the current guess. Anything with a question mark next to it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong. Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-) Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes: Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu ======= Thieves ======= thieves, thieves and liars, murderers hypocrites and bastards and lechers (hypocrites and bastards in laughter) hey, thanks for nothing! morals in the dust two-faced bastards and syncophants no trust fuckers! thieves! fuckers! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? (which side are they? which side are they?) who started abandoning/abolishing hate? ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came?) who started it? who started it? (which side are they? which side are they?) who started affecting freedom? (which side of the grass is greener?) inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know you're like a great big fucking cock, just waiting to get squeezed! breathe, forfeit erection! toxical injection geriatric fuck-fest with scintillating lies fuckers! thieves! fuckers! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? who started the fight between color and hate? ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came?) who started it? who started it? (which side are they? which side are they?) who started affecting freedom? (which side of the grass is greener?) inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, no one knows you're like a great big hit of acid, waiting to be taken! ============== Burning Inside ============== will these dreams still follow me when the dark comes, curing time (of a god and his cruelty) (of the dog star's cruelty) (and destroy my security) can't you see it up in the sky as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry you never had the answers and now you tell me the facts are lies i really couldn't be bothered with you get out of my face and watch me die burning inside! burning inside! absolution and a frozen room and the dreams of men below i try to grab it but the touch is hot the mirror collects it, but the image can not (the mirror collapses, but the image does not) (the mirror collapses, but the image came not) i'm scared of the darkness and the light i scare myself because i know i'm right i see the evil in your savage eye as it cuts right through the sky burning inside! burning inside! call me the mantra with a blade in his skin (calming the mantra with a blade in his skin) holding demons within (for the demons within) i feel the pain as we start to decay (but) the lesson never fades away don't need no shadows, turn them away (too little shadows, turning away) (too many shadows, too little rain) become a man through the window pane (you throw a man through the window pane) another slave and a victim of fate (another slave, an addiction to fate) another lesson in hate burning inside! burning inside! ============= Never Believe ============= is anybody here? is everybody here? the service is about to begin! i make my self from the fire insidious (instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels) i'll make dust of the whole damned world i'll make hovels for all the worms i'll raise my hands up to face these idiot bastards me and cellmate have lost again for ever the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...' i want so much to remove your past and deliver your now-rotting flesh from evil grab his giant head grab his giant head grab his giant head grab his giant head but i'm only allowed to touch what i know but all that i know are hypocrites liars and witches burning, with anger, these human beings (violent and wicked and burning with anger these human beings) (liars and witches who burn in the name of human beings) you will never believe never believe we haven't much time left evening will come and with it the equivalent of those devil animals (of the devil's animals) with fear to come they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill they ask, curse at us, and we smile caught in conviction a crowd of senseless individuals will go further than both love and greed and thinking of salvation for future beings (as the clear salvation for future beings) you will never believe never believe ============= Cannibal Song ============= dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride in an infant mind thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind don't do that to me criminals, sodomites are laughing at me life is hell forever fighting our deficient minds we're all left alone and poisoned a sickening trap a sight worth seeing dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride in an infant mind don't do that to me don't do that to me force-fed the others (force breaks our back) they preserve fearfully (time preserves, fearfully) you know what i said hideous and strange thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind ======= Breathe ======= breathe! corporate causes with self-served denial (cold burning movement with senseless denial) the raping of the land collapse the long malfunction they never learned to breathe breathe! rusted syringes and half-thought disposal a burial at sea waste want a graveyard swimming in disease breathe! this is the world it's not working this is this earth breathe! breathe, you fucker! children gasping the second-hand air death and desperation we've got to cut the lies with truth we breathe breathe! this is the world the clock's ticking is this this earth? breathe! breathe, you fucker! hope springs eternal from wistful conviction (hope springs eternal when paired with conviction) action mistaken for wisdom is made (action mistaken for wisdom is plain) all things concerning the true contradiction (all things concerned, it's the true contradiction) the world is insane breathe! this is the world it's got no future is this this earth? breathe! breathe, you fucker! ======= So What ======= die! die! die! die! scum suckers! depravity debauched! anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics savage scourge supply and sanctify so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! die! die! die! you said it! sedatives supplied become laxatives my eyes shit out lies i only kill to know i'm alive so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! die! die! die! so what, it's your problem to learn to live with destroy us, or make us saints we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late a screaming headache on the proudest date (a screaming headache on the promised age) (a screaming headache on the proud estate) killing time is appropriate to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! now that i know what is right i'll kill them all if i like i'm a time bomb inside no one listens to reason, it's too late and i'm ready to fight! so what? now i'm ready to fight! ==== Test ==== yo! this is a test you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that but i'm not with that so step back from this man cos i won't be held back so don't fight or dis' or piss me off cos i'm not soft or weak running down in the maze of the day this is a new phase don't be commercial or sell out or get the hell out of this business but i won't be caught in that net of suckers and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble society probably wants me to give up society probably wants me to give up as i live up to be my best in a test a fight for death as i fight for my very last breath and etc. and etc. gotta be strong but wait a minute now could i be better? now could i be better? well, only i know well, what about you? or do you have a clue? could've, would've, should've - it's too late could've, would've, should've - it's too late why you waiting, hey don't sit there, move! be your own person! wake up, make up your mind seek banality, you will find be your own person wait for all the weak cos they make the people level and with you make a team so believe, and be your best cos this is a test go for the top chart rock with all your heart rock-hard, stay up, go deal with what's going on in this crazy world man woman child boy girl insane to the playing love music power pain be what you gotta do get the knowing attitude cos this is a test that we suggest be your own person! cos this is a test! this is... a test! cos we all know who is the real victim society does not want them picked on labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt, don't miss your boot and kicked him faceless in the morning in their urban plight felt like a symbol with every situation any of these schools are already overcrowded project nation, more inflation better your damn situation but how can you better your situation if you have no occupation? terrorists said, '???' see how many different schools you can enter us i'll tell you in the pit, that life's a bitch the world's all upset, i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch you own the key to the damn city (you can keep to your damned city) well it's a damn pity ================ Faith Collapsing ================ faith collapsing! faith collapsing!... Lyrics to Ministry's singles. Included are: Cold Life I'm Falling All Day (Everyday Is) Halloween Nature Of Love Isle Of Man Tonight We Murder Jesus Built My Hotrod (approximately) TV Song DISCLAIMER: These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not compelete. They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have. If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email. We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in! Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, indented below the current guess. Anything with a question mark next to it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong. Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-) Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes: Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu ========= Cold Life ========= cold you know the yolk it's spreading from you laugh as people scatter 'bout surrounded by a veil of stars you realize your life is dark earth gets colder every day if scientists could have their way they'd study us from far away and watch as people's minds decay cold your body's in the hands of fools with swimming pools and low iq's there's nothing to see, nothing to do buy your stocks and sell your jewels bill collectors stole my mail my wife and kids are all for sale i hope to god i go to jail and no one can come up with bail cold life i can't control my buried thoughts the slightest thing makes me distraught i'm like the people i once fought my every action's being bought robot trainers earn their pay as mutant kids go out to play it's such a pretty pretty day with orange nights and days of grey cold i've now become a nervous wreck i'm getting closer to my death i keep expecting my last breath as all my friends just laugh and jest the earth is such a filthy place and human such an awful race and i'd rather live in outer space where death goes at a slower pace cold life =========== I'm Falling =========== first last night we're riding home with friends in a big blue car for this man fed us rubbish as if it were caviar we told him, 'sir, please go away!' 'we're innocent of crimes!' he hit me with his black nightstick and all i heard were cries i'm falling i asked her for a date one night she thought it'd be a laugh i'd take her to a restaurant and then up to her pad i waited at my house that night for her phone call to come she'd gone off with a ruffian and he came by with a gun i'm falling i'm falling yes i'm falling ======= All Day ======= well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun and i keep on working till the work is all done but a voice in my head keeps ticking away as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day well he works hard and he lives hard and he breaks his back without nothing to gain while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand is that what it takes to make you understand? that it's something you read, not something you meant to be slaving away without a shred of integrity he worked hard and he lived hard and he broke his back without nothing to say (and he broke his back without nothing to gain) while the man in control was just laughing away all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision was it something you read? was it something you meant? was it something you said? or was it heaven sent? all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision ======================= (Everyday is) Halloween ======================= well i live with snakes and lizards and other things that go bump in the night cos to me everyday is halloween i have given up hiding and started to fight i have started to fight well any time, any place, anywhere that i go all the people seem to stop and stare they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween? you look so absurd, you look so obscene' o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world well i let their teeny minds think that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink and i dress this way just to keep them at bay cos halloween is everyday it's everyday o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me i'm not the one that's so absurd why hide it? why fight it? hurt feelings best to stop feeling hurt from denials, reprisals it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world ================== The Nature of Love ================== love - love is like an open hand stings a little when it lands hold me closer hold me tighter hold me so damn close that my heart's on fire it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world is walking round in theirs i said love - love is like a razor blade double edge and double pain hold me closer hold me tighter when i rip your flesh and the pain is fresh it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world doesn't seem to care i said love - love is like a butcher knife double sharp for single lives hold me closer hold me tighter as the lights go out and we start to shout it's a fantasy it's a nightmare with a big black bruise and a handful of hair i said love - =========== Isle Of Man =========== nice place clean water fresh air blue skies like pirates we tried it we took what we deserved half million years later we'd used up our reserves we're crying 'what happened?' we get what we deserve we get what we deserve we get instead the isle of man the isle of man i've wandered through forests with our garbage waist-high can't clean it i mean it we get what we deserve rainy mornings dry evenings it's growing on my nerves just gases you fascists you get what you deserve you get what you deserve you get instead the isle of man the isle of man i'm writing this letter so no one will forget some future cave dweller will find these notes an isle of man the isle of man ================= Tonight We Murder ================= red hand takes a purple terror love knows these nuts when we escape from the madhouse we will... hunt down tonight we murder between the battle of pain and hate we will wait, but not for our time we'll for hate and to take to deep... throat tonight tonight we murder between the pain, the battle of pain love never ties knots a twisted plan of fear and hate we'll never untie these nuts tonight we murder i murder tonight we murder ===================== Jesus Built My Hotrod ===================== soon i discovered that this rock thing was true jerry lee lewis was the devil jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world so there was only one thing that i could do was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long ding dang dong dong bing bong think i think i thought of a ploy everytime i gotta go without my baby hear my motor roar why why why, why why baby is it some people fear if i die without family then i'll go down to hell? ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong everywhere i go everytime you tell me, baby, will i settle down? got to get me to the park and haul my weight around why why why why? ding ding dong a dong dong ding dong think i think i thought of a cure half my time i tell you baby i'll have it have it on the floor why why why, why why baby sickness sickness or a cure? if i die with a ding standin' on here they'll well wow now town hell town now now ding a dong dong dong dong ding dong ding a ding a dong a dong everytime you tell me, baby, will i settle down? got to get me to the park and haul my weight around why why why why? if i die a ding a ding a ding dong think i think it's out on the floor ding a dang dong dong dong ding dong why why they'll adore wham bam bang a dang a dang a ding dong think i think it's unfair ding, dang, dong dong dong whoa no! i wanna love ya! why why why, why why darling do you do you tell me to clear? everytime i gotta go without my baby now i've downed myself why why why, ding a ding a ding a ding a ding a ding a down on the floor ding ding dang a bong bong bing bong think i think i thought of a cure a bip bip bip a bop bop bim bam ding a ding a during the day if he died without reason then we'll know it was him why why why, why why darling get down low if i die the lord might tell me that i lived without a soul everytime you tell me baby will i settle down? got to get me to the park and haul my weight around why why why why? if i die with all our people think he think he'd call the police we'll retaliate and no one knows what else why why why, why why baby he we go, oh that's easy -- shh! and fuck me and fuck me and fuck me round! jesus built my car it's a love affair mainly jesus and my hot rod yeah, fuck it! ======= TV Song ======= tell me something i don't know show me something i can't use push the button connect the goddamned dots live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom commodity sodomy glass autonomy promise everything take it all away give it a rest you're lying through your teeth you're lying through your teeth who what which why who when did you say the earth would stop turning? why did you say we would all start burning? when should i make a pledge? should i listen to the voices in my head? connect the goddamned dots connect the goddamned dots who am i trying to impress? who could care less? tell me something i don't know Lyrics to Ministry's Psalm 69 album. Included are: N.W.O. Just One Fix TV II Hero Jesus Built My Hotrod (approximately) Scarecrow Psalm 69 Convulsion DISCLAIMER: These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not compelete. They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have. If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email. We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in! Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, indented below the current guess. Anything with a question mark next to it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong. Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-) Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes: Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu ====== N.W.O. ====== all the locals have the tears of regret open fire cos i love you to death sky high, with a heartache of stone you'll never see me cos i'm always alone how to love without a trace of dissent i'll buy the torture cos you pay for the rent tied high with a broken command you're all alone to the promised land i'm in love with this malicious intent you've been taken but you don't know it yet what you will know must never live to be found cos it's been subject to the eyes of the drowned ============ Just One Fix ============ blood keeps drinking away trying to find its destination driving through new orleans at night gotta find a destination just one fix life keeps slipping away fighting a war with damnation poised, keep cutting away i'm looking in through to salvation just one fix like if i boarded a train trying to take in another station join us and the choice will be made unless we kill the lie as a nation just one fix ===== TV II ===== tell me something i don't know show me something i can't use push the button connect the goddamned dots live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom commodity sodomy glass autonomy promise everything take it all away give it a rest you're lying through your teeth you're lying through your teeth who what which why who when did you say the earth would stop turning? why did you say we would all start burning? when should i make a pledge? should i listen to the voices in my head? connect the goddamned dots connect the goddamned dots connect the goddamned dots who am i trying to impress? who could care less? tell me something i don't know ==== Hero ==== they get you ready to fight the fuse is ready to blow you shoot to kill on sight they call you g i joe you never wanted to stop the smell of burning flesh the hero marches alone across the highway of death it's not a matter of rights it's just a matter of war don't have a reason to fight they never had one before you're just a killing machine he's come to take you down we take the gas that we need and pump the blood on the ground they're gonna set you up so they can take you down they're gonna suck you dry they've left the blood to be found they're gonna rip you apart you're gonna burn at the stake cos when it's time to collect it's only heroes who pay ===================== Jesus Built My Hotrod ===================== soon i discovered that this rock thing was true jerry lee lewis was the devil jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world so there was only one thing that i could do was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long ding dang dong dong bing bong think i think i thought of a ploy everytime i gotta go without my baby hear my motor roar why why why, why why baby is it some people fear if i die without family then i'll go down to hell? ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong everywhere i go everytime you tell me, baby, will i settle down? got to get me to the park and haul my weight around why why why why? ding ding dong a dong dong ding dong think i think i thought of a cure half my time i tell you baby i'll have it have it on the floor why why why, why why baby sickness sickness or a cure? if i die with a ding standin' on here they'll well wow now town hell town now now ding a dong dong dong dong ding dong ding a ding a dong a dong everytime you tell me, baby, will i settle down? got to get me to the park and haul my weight around why why why why? if i die a ding a ding a ding dong think i think it's out on the floor ding a dang dong dong dong ding dong why why they'll adore wham bam bang a dang a dang a ding dong think i think it's unfair ding, dang, dong dong dong whoa no! i wanna love ya! why why why, why why darling do you do you tell me to clear? everytime i gotta go without my baby now i've downed myself why why why, ding a ding a ding a ding a ding a ding a down on the floor ding ding dang a bong bong bing bong think i think i thought of a cure a bip bip bip a bop bop bim bam ding a ding a during the day if he died without reason then we'll know it was him why why why, why why darling get down low if i die the lord might tell me that i lived without a soul everytime you tell me baby will i settle down? got to get me to the park and haul my weight around why why why why? if i die with all our people think he think he'd call the police we'll retaliate and no one knows what else why why why, why why baby he we go, oh that's easy -- shh! and fuck me and fuck me and fuck me raw! jesus built my car it's a love affair mainly jesus and my hot rod yeah, fuck it! ========= Scarecrow ========= staring in the face of condemnation laughter fills the sky instead of rain live my life alone in resignation arms outstretched for those who cannot say scarecrow crucified and left in isolation pictures of our lost morality scarecrow eyeless stares invite this whole damnation rotting corpse of inhumanity scarecrow ======== Psalm 69 ======== congregation, please be seated and open your prayer guides to the book of revelations, psalm 69 drinking the blood of jesus drinking it right from his face learning to swim in the ocean learning to prowl in his name the body of christ looked unto me a preacher with god-given hands he wants you to suck up the holy ghost and swallow the sins of man psalm 69 the invisible piss of the holy ghost comes down like acid rain they're making a bonnet of terminal guilt the scavengers go on parade the fathers who write that eternity is used to fight the sword have filled you up with the devil's drug and he'll come in the name of the lord the way to succeed and the way to suck eggs stop it! ========== Convulsion ========== convulsion! convulsion! Lyrics to Ministry's Twitch album. Included are: Just Like You We Believe All Day The Angel Over The Shoulder My Possession Isle Of Man DISCLAIMER: These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not compelete. They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have. If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email. We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in! Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, indented below the current guess. Anything with a question mark next to it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong. Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-) Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes: Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu ============= Just Like You ============= standing on corners and begging for quarters for what? FOR YOU and you busting my head cos that's what you said for all of us FUCK YOU JUST LIKE YOU people are happy when they're not so trapped by someone JUST LIKE YOU and you many more years of nothing but fear of anything YOU DO 1980's was run by a person who's crazy LIKE YOU and you the 1990's will be unkindly, exactly LIKE YOU and you JUST LIKE YOU and you YOU when one dictator is the same as the later JUST LIKE YOU and you we work, we survive JUST LIKE YOU and you and you and you we work, we twitch YOU and you and you and you and you JUST LIKE YOU ========== We Believe ========== standing round the table spinning fables and signing autographs can't you hear them laugh HA HA HA HA HA in their secrecies they plan their strategies it's called hypocrisy and we believe mornings they tell me everything that i need to know or i care to know well i can visualize the look in your eyes the horror as the plane goes down and the siren sounds we can't believe we can't believe in the east where the bear is dancing in the west where the eagle flies in the middle we stand our ground the forces pull us down down down tensions on both sides we're paralyzed and victimized we're terrified and petrified demoralized and mortified of genocide and suicide and patricide and cyanide we're pacified by every side force-fed pride and then we die for them we die for them in the east where the bear is dancing in the west where the eagle flies in the middle we stand our ground the forces pull us down down down we believe ======= All Day ======= well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun and i keep on working till the work is all done but a voice in my head keeps ticking away as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day well he works hard and he lives hard and he breaks his back without nothing to gain while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand is that what it takes to make you understand? that it's something you read, not something you meant to be slaving away without a shred of integrity he worked hard and he lived hard and he broke his back without nothing to say (and he broke his back without nothing to gain) while the man in control was just laughing away all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision was it something you read? was it something you meant? was it something you said? or was it heaven sent? all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision ========= The Angel ========= now is an angel there? now is an angel there? now is an angel there? one left out when they passed heaven about what about me sitting here in my purgatory so get out (sort it out) he's dead (these days) i'm alive he's spared always an angel who cares always an angel there one like me we try so hard five like you someone dead again where's your angel now? where's your angel now? where's your morals now? where's your morals? always an angel there where's your angel now? always an angel who cares always an angel there where's your morals? there's always an angel who cares there's always an angel there no more people staring no more fatal dares like a baby grabbing at something that isn't there but it is but it is always an angel there always an angel who cares always an angel there always an angel who cares ================= Over The Shoulder ================= big size, small size any size, round and round we need, we take burn it all to the ground started off and learned to walk (started over and learned to walk) we teach you how to talk please try and understand we're helping all mankind we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we are serious o, serious dollar here, dollar there dollars flying everywhere we're only here to please stop the killing, trust me we'll only be a while we've got a big big smile (big while, big big smile) we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we have in our hands every woman and every man things are gonna go far die beneath a big black sky (down a real big fast car) and what you see is what you get keep 'em hungry, you bet you need security? kid, you've got the enemy (to keep you from the enemy) we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we use them a while then it's over the shoulder ============= My Possession ============= hanging and banging and cussing and bitching and scratching and twitching at my demand grabbing and poking and bruising and choking i'm sprinkled i'm tinkled i'm losing my man i found a new way i found a better way i found the only way to cure frustration i don't care what you say about my (im?)moral ways get on your knees and pray cos you're slaves anyway coming and going and moving and groaning and hitting that kitten and making him yowl wailing and flailing and trudging and flogging and punching my doggie and making him howl i found a new way i found a better way i found the only way to cure frustration i don't care what you say about my (im?)moral ways get on your knees and pray cos you're slaves anyway my possession, my possession, my possession, mine, all (mi-)mine kicking that butt now licking that butt now kneel on that gut now the red light's on pushing and shoving that bread in the oven i'm paying them back for what they've done i found a new way i found a better way i found the only way to cure frustration i don't care what you say about my (im?)moral ways get on your knees and pray cos you're slaves anyway my possession, my possession, my possession, mine, all (mi-)mine =========== Isle of Man =========== nice place clean water fresh air blue skies like pirates we tried it we took what we deserved half million years later we'd used up our reserves we're crying 'what happened?' we get what we deserve we get what we deserve we get instead the isle of man the isle of man i've wandered through forests with our garbage waist-high can't clean it i mean it we get what we deserve rainy mornings dry evenings it's growing on my nerves just gases you fascists you get what you deserve you get what you deserve you get instead the isle of man the isle of man i'm writing this letter so no one will forget some future cave dweller will find these notes an isle of man the isle of man Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste - 1989 Thieves thieves, thieves and liars, murderers hypocrites and bastards and lechers hey, thanks for nothing! morals in the dust two-faced bastards and syncophants no trust fuckers! thieves! fuckers! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? (which side are they...) who started abandoning/abolishing hate? ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came) who started it? who started it? who started affecting freedom? (which side of the grass is greener) inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know you're like a great big fucking cock, just waiting to get squeezed! breathe, forfeit erection! (free from the erection) toxic our injection (toxical injection) geriatric fuck-fest with scintillating lies (we still believe in lies) fuckers! thieves! fuckers! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? (which side are they...) who started the fight between color and hate? ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came) who started it? who started it? who started affecting freedom? (which side of the grass is greener) inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, no one knows you're like a great big hit of acid, waiting to be taken! Burning Inside will these dreams still follow me when the dark comes, curing time (of a god and his cruelty) (of the dog star's cruelty) can't you see it up in the sky as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry you never had the answers and now you tell me the facts are lies i really couldn't be bothered with you get out of my face and watch me die burning inside! burning inside! absolution and a frozen rule (... room) all the dreams of men below i try to grab it but the touch is hot the mirror collects it, but the image can not (the mirror collapses, but the image does not) i'm scared of the darkness and the light i scare myself because i know i'm right i see the evil and the savagery (i see the evil in your savage eye) as it cuts right through the sky burning inside! burning inside! call me the mantra with a blade in his skin (calming...) holding demons within i feel the pain as we start to decay the lesson never fades away don't need no shadows, turn them away (too little shadows, turning away) become a man through the window pane (you throw...) another slave and a victim of fate (an addiction to fate) another lesson in hate burning inside! burning inside! Never Believe is anybody here? is everybody here? the service is about to begin! i make my self from the fire insidious (instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels) i'll make dust of the whole damned world i'll make hovels for all the worms i'll raise my hands up to face these idiot bastards me and cellmate have lost again for ever the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...' i want so much to remove your past and deliver your now-rotting flesh from evil grab his giant head grab his giant head grab his giant head grab his giant head but i'm only allowed to touch what i know but all that i know are hypocrites liars and witches burning, with anger, these human beings (violent and wicked and burning with anger these human beings) (liars and witches who burn in the name of human beings) you will never believe never believe we haven't much time left evening will come and with it the equivalent of those devil animals (of the devil's animals) with fear to come they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill they ask, curse at us, and we smile caught in conviction a crowd of senseless individuals will go further than both love and greed and thinking of salvation for future beings (as the clear salvation for future beings) you will never believe never believe Cannibal Song dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride and an infant mind thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind don't do that to me criminals, sodomites are laughing at me life is hell forever fighting our deficient minds we're all left alone and poisoned a sickening trap a sight worth seeing dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride and an infant mind don't do that to me don't do that to me force-fed the others (force breaks our back) they preserve fearfully (time preserves, fearfully) you know what i said hideous and strange thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind Breathe breathe! cold burning movement with senseless denial (corporate causes with self-served denial) the raping of the land the last (at last) the last malfunction they never learned to breathe breathe! rusted syringes and half-thought disposal a burial at sea waste want graveyard swimming in disease breathe! this is the world it's not working this is this earth breathe! breathe, you fucker! children, gasping, the second hand there death and desperation we've got to cut the lies with truth we pray breathe! this is the world the clock's ticking is this this earth? breathe! breathe, you fucker! hope springs eternal from wistful conviction (hope springs eternal when paired with conviction) action mistaken for wisdom is made (action mistaken for wisdom is plain) all things concerning the true contradiction (all things concerned, it's the true contradiction) the world is insane breathe! this is the world it's got no future is this this earth? breathe! breathe, you fucker! So What 'you have had all that money can give you, but that wasn't enough. you became a thrill-seeker. kill for the thrill. (assassin.) this thrill-seeking became the one great thing in your life, planning one thrill on another until the murder. kill for the love of killing. (guilty.) kill for the thrill. the thrill-seeker comes from all walks of life. he comes from the home, the home where the parents are too busy to treat their children with respect.' die! die! die! die! scum suckers! debility divulged! (you try to take too much) (depravity debauched) anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics savage scourge supply and sanctify (cervix scars...) so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! die! die! die! you said it! sedatives supplied become laxatives my eyes shit out lies i only kill to know i'm alive so what? so what? die! die! die! die! 'kill for the thrill. (assassin.) some people think newspapers exaggerate juvenile crime. all that is confined mostly to the large cities; juvenile delinquency is underlined. thus parents think something is going wrong with the environment. adults create the world, children live it. juvenile delinquency is always rooted in adult delinquency. and in this process, parents play the key role when children grow up among adults who refuse to recognize anything that is fine and good, or worthy of respect.' die! die! die! die! so what, it's your problem to learn to live with destroy us, or make us saints we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late a screaming headache on the promised age (proudest date) (proud estate) killing time is appropriate to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! now that i know what is right (it's like) i'll kill them all if i like i'm a time bomb inside no one listens to reason, it's too late and i'm ready to fight! so what? now i'm ready to fight! Test yo! this is a test you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that but i'm not with that so step back from this man cos i won't be held back so don't try to fight or piss me off (so don't fight or kiss or piss me off) cos i'm not soft or weak running down in the maze of the day this is a new phase don't be commercial or sell out or get the hell out of this business but i won't be caught in that net of suckers and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble society probably wants me to give up society probably wants me to give up as i live up to be my best in a test a fight for death as i fight for my very last breath and etc. and etc. gotta be strong but wait a minute now could i be better now could i be better well only i know well what about you or do you have a clue could've, would've, should've - it's too late could've, would've, should've - it's too late why you waiting, why you sit there, move! (why you waiting, hey don't sit there, move!) be your best! wake up, make up your mind seek the knowledge you will find be your own person wait for all the weak cos they make the people level and with you make a team so wait and be your best cos this is a test go for the top chart rock on with all your heart rock on, stay up, go tell me what's going on in this crazy world man woman child boy girl insane to the pain love music power pain be what you gotta do get the knowing attitude cos this is a test that we suggest be your best! cos this is a test! this is... a test! cos we all know who is the real victim society does not want them picked on labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt, don't miss your boot and kicked him faceless in the morning in their urban plight felt like a symbol with every situation any of these schools are already overcrowded project nation, more inflation better your damn situation but how can you better your situation if you have no occupation? terrorists said, '???' see how many different schools you can enter us i'll tell you in the pit, that life's a bitch the world's all upset, i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch you can keep to your damned city well it's a damn pity Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste - 1989 Thieves thieves, thieves and liars, murderers hypocrites and bastards and lechers hey, thanks for nothing! morals in the dust two-faced bastards and syncophants no trust fuckers! thieves! fuckers! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? (which side are they...) who started abandoning/abolishing hate? ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came) who started it? who started it? who started affecting freedom? (which side of the grass is greener) inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know you're like a great big fucking cock, just waiting to get squeezed! breathe, forfeit erection! (free from the erection) toxic our injection (toxical injection) geriatric fuck-fest with scintillating lies (we still believe in lies) fuckers! thieves! fuckers! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? (which side are they...) who started the fight between color and hate? ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came) who started it? who started it? who started affecting freedom? (which side of the grass is greener) inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, no one knows you're like a great big hit of acid, waiting to be taken! Burning Inside will these dreams still follow me when the dark comes, curing time (of a god and his cruelty) (of the dog star's cruelty) can't you see it up in the sky as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry you never had the answers and now you tell me the facts are lies i really couldn't be bothered with you get out of my face and watch me die burning inside! burning inside! absolution and a frozen rule (... room) all the dreams of men below i try to grab it but the touch is hot the mirror collects it, but the image can not (the mirror collapses, but the image does not) i'm scared of the darkness and the light i scare myself because i know i'm right i see the evil and the savagery (i see the evil in your savage eye) as it cuts right through the sky burning inside! burning inside! call me the mantra with a blade in his skin (calming...) holding demons within i feel the pain as we start to decay the lesson never fades away don't need no shadows, turn them away (too little shadows, turning away) become a man through the window pane (you throw...) another slave and a victim of fate (an addiction to fate) another lesson in hate burning inside! burning inside! Never Believe is anybody here? is everybody here? the service is about to begin! i make my self from the fire insidious (instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels) i'll make dust of the whole damned world i'll make hovels for all the worms i'll raise my hands up to face these idiot bastards me and cellmate have lost again for ever the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...' i want so much to remove your past and deliver your now-rotting flesh from evil grab his giant head grab his giant head grab his giant head grab his giant head but i'm only allowed to touch what i know but all that i know are hypocrites liars and witches burning, with anger, these human beings (violent and wicked and burning with anger these human beings) (liars and witches who burn in the name of human beings) you will never believe never believe we haven't much time left evening will come and with it the equivalent of those devil animals (of the devil's animals) with fear to come they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill they ask, curse at us, and we smile caught in conviction a crowd of senseless individuals will go further than both love and greed and thinking of salvation for future beings (as the clear salvation for future beings) you will never believe never believe Cannibal Song dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride and an infant mind thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind don't do that to me criminals, sodomites are laughing at me life is hell forever fighting our deficient minds we're all left alone and poisoned a sickening trap a sight worth seeing dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride and an infant mind don't do that to me don't do that to me force-fed the others (force breaks our back) they preserve fearfully (time preserves, fearfully) you know what i said hideous and strange thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind Breathe breathe! cold burning movement with senseless denial (corporate causes with self-served denial) the raping of the land the last (at last) the last malfunction they never learned to breathe breathe! rusted syringes and half-thought disposal a burial at sea waste want graveyard swimming in disease breathe! this is the world it's not working this is this earth breathe! breathe, you fucker! children, gasping, the second hand there death and desperation we've got to cut the lies with truth we pray breathe! this is the world the clock's ticking is this this earth? breathe! breathe, you fucker! hope springs eternal from wistful conviction (hope springs eternal when paired with conviction) action mistaken for wisdom is made (action mistaken for wisdom is plain) all things concerning the true contradiction (all things concerned, it's the true contradiction) the world is insane breathe! this is the world it's got no future is this this earth? breathe! breathe, you fucker! So What 'you have had all that money can give you, but that wasn't enough. you became a thrill-seeker. kill for the thrill. (assassin.) this thrill-seeking became the one great thing in your life, planning one thrill on another until the murder. kill for the love of killing. (guilty.) kill for the thrill. the thrill-seeker comes from all walks of life. he comes from the home, the home where the parents are too busy to treat their children with respect.' die! die! die! die! scum suckers! debility divulged! (you try to take too much) (depravity debauched) anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics savage scourge supply and sanctify (cervix scars...) so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! die! die! die! you said it! sedatives supplied become laxatives my eyes shit out lies i only kill to know i'm alive so what? so what? die! die! die! die! 'kill for the thrill. (assassin.) some people think newspapers exaggerate juvenile crime. all that is confined mostly to the large cities; juvenile delinquency is underlined. thus parents think something is going wrong with the environment. adults create the world, children live it. juvenile delinquency is always rooted in adult delinquency. and in this process, parents play the key role when children grow up among adults who refuse to recognize anything that is fine and good, or worthy of respect.' die! die! die! die! so what, it's your problem to learn to live with destroy us, or make us saints we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late a screaming headache on the promised age (proudest date) (proud estate) killing time is appropriate to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! now that i know what is right (it's like) i'll kill them all if i like i'm a time bomb inside no one listens to reason, it's too late and i'm ready to fight! so what? now i'm ready to fight! Test yo! this is a test you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that you say this one, i say that but i'm not with that so step back from this man cos i won't be held back so don't try to fight or piss me off (so don't fight or kiss or piss me off) cos i'm not soft or weak running down in the maze of the day this is a new phase don't be commercial or sell out or get the hell out of this business but i won't be caught in that net of suckers and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble society probably wants me to give up society probably wants me to give up as i live up to be my best in a test a fight for death as i fight for my very last breath and etc. and etc. gotta be strong but wait a minute now could i be better now could i be better well only i know well what about you or do you have a clue could've, would've, should've - it's too late could've, would've, should've - it's too late why you waiting, why you sit there, move! (why you waiting, hey don't sit there, move!) be your best! wake up, make up your mind seek the knowledge you will find be your own person wait for all the weak cos they make the people level and with you make a team so wait and be your best cos this is a test go for the top chart rock on with all your heart rock on, stay up, go tell me what's going on in this crazy world man woman child boy girl insane to the pain love music power pain be what you gotta do get the knowing attitude cos this is a test that we suggest be your best! cos this is a test! this is... a test! cos we all know who is the real victim society does not want them picked on labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt, don't miss your boot and kicked him faceless in the morning in their urban plight felt like a symbol with every situation any of these schools are already overcrowded project nation, more inflation better your damn situation but how can you better your situation if you have no occupation? terrorists said, '???' see how many different schools you can enter us i'll tell you in the pit, that life's a bitch the world's all upset, i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch you can keep to your damned city well it's a damn pity go