Find your faith in your security All broken up at seventeen Jam your brain with broken heroes Love your masks and adore your failure We're a mess of eyeliner and spraypaint DIY destruction on chanel chic Every culture of consumption This is a culture of destruction Don't wanna see your face Don't wanna hear your words Why don't you just Don't wanna see your face Don't wanna hear your words Why don't you just Babes on the run with poisoned lips Wrap your arms round this everlasting kiss Clinging to your own sense of waste All we love is lonely wreckage Your school your dole and your chequebook dreams Your clothes your suits and your pension schemes Now you say you know how we feel don't fall in love cos we hate you still Don't wanna see your face Don't wanna hear your words Why don't you just Don't wanna see your face Don't wanna hear your words Why don't you just Destroyed by madness oh yeah Destroyed by madness oh yeah Destroyed by madness oh yeah Anxiety is freedom
Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile We blur into images of state coercion Classified machines die misunderstood City reflections pour out misery We don't count cos we hate Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave this country Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave it Despair seeps through and cuts our eyes Unified collapse of everything inside We understand but can't accept You are not dead cos we hate Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave this country Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave it Our lives drift into a faceless sense of void Everything of meaning becomes destroyed There's too much concrete for us to breathe We are kept down cos we hate Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile Raindown alienation Leave this country Leave this country Raindown alienation Leave this country Believe it Love's sweet exile Love's sweet exile
We are not your sinners Our voices are for real We realised and won't be mourned We gonna burn your deathmask uniforms We won't die of devotion Understand we can never belong Thrown some acid into your face Pollute your mineral water with a strychnine taste You love us You love us You love us You love You love us Oh you love us You love You love us You love us You love 'Til I see love in statues Your lessons drill inherited sin Parliaments a fake life saver You better wake up and smell the real flavour You love us like a holocaust simply a problem as EST You love us like a holocaust simply a problem as EST You love us You love us You love us You love You love us Oh you love us You love You love us You love us You love You love us You love us You love us You love You love us Oh you love us You love You love us You love us You love
You need your stars even killers have prestige Access to a living you will not see 24 boredom I'm convicted instantly Gorgeous poverty of created needs Slash and burn Kill to live Kill for kicks 3rd world to the 1st Kill to live Worms in the garden more real than a McDonalds Drain your blood and let the Exxon spill in Look around here you see nothing is very real Chained to economy now famine has been Slash and burn Kill to live Kill for kicks 3rd world to the 1st Kill to live That's all you need That's all you need That's all you need That's all you need Madonna drinks Coke and so you can too Taste's real good not like a sweet poison should Too much comfort to get decadent Politics here's death and God is safer sex Slash and burn Kill to live Kill for kicks 3rd world to the 1st Kill to live Kill for kicks Slash and burn Kill to live Kill for kicks 3rd world to the 1st Kill to live That's all you need That's all you need That's all you need That's all you need
No one likes looking at you Your lack of ego offends male mentality They need your innocence To steal vacant love and to destroy Your beauty and virginity used like toys My mind is dead everybody love's me Wants a slice of me Hopelessly passive and compatible Need to belong oh the roads are scarey hold me in your arms I wanna be your only possession Used used used by men Used used used by men All they leave behind is money Paper made out of broken twisted trees Your pretty face offends Because it's something real that I can't touch Eyes skin bone contour language as a flower No god reached me faded films and loving books Black and white TV All the world does not exist for me if I'm starving you can feed me lollipops Your diet will crush me My life just an old man's memory Little baby nothing Loveless slavery lips kissing empty Dress your life in loathing Breaking your mind with Barbie Doll futility Little baby nothing Sexually free made up to breakup Assassinated beauty Moths broken up quenched at last The vermin allowed a thought to pass them by You are pure you are snow We are the useless sluts that they mould Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany Culture alienation boredom and despair You are pure you are snow We are the useless sluts that they mould Rock 'n' roll is our epiphany Culture alienation boredom and despair
I write this alone on my bed I've poisoned every room in the house The place is quiet and so alone Pretend there's something worth waiting for There's nothing nice in my head The adult world took it all away I wake up with same spit in my mouth I cannot tell if it is real or not I try and walk in a straight line An imitation of dignity From despair to where From despair to where Outside open mouthed crowds Pass each other as if they're drugged Down pale corridors of routine Where life falls unatoned The weak kick like straw Till the world means less and less Words are never enough Just cheap tarnished glitter I try and walk in a straight line An imitation of dignity From despair to where From despair to where A cripple walks in a straight line An imitation of dignity From despair to where From despair to where
Life has been unfaithful And it all promised so so much I am a relic I am just a petrified cry Wheeled out once a year a cenotaph souvenir The applause nails down my silence La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh I see liberals I am just a fashion accessory People send postcards And they all hope I'm feeling well I retreat into self pity it's so easy Where they patronise my misery La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh I sold my medal It paid a bill It sells at market stalls Parades Milan catwalks Oh the sadness will never go Will never go away Baby it's here to stay La tristesse durera Scream to a sigh to a sigh
Roses in the hospital Try to pull my fingernails out Roses in the hospital I want to cling to something soft Roses in the hospital Progressing like a constant war Roses in the hospital There's no one to feel ashamed for All we wanted was a home Now we are so strung out we wanna own Like a leaf in the autumn breeze Like a flood in January We don't want your fucking love Roses in the hospital Stub cigarettes out on my arm Roses in the hospital Want to feel something of value Roses in the hospital Nothing really makes me happy Roses in the hospital Heroin is just too trendy All we wanted was a home Now we are so strung out we wanna own Like a leaf in the autumn breeze Like a flood in January We don't want your fucking love Roses in the hospital This century achieved so much Roses in the hospital To make a voice no voice at all Roses in the hospital Flowers cannot express the loss Roses in the hospital Torn reflections of burnt out trash Of burnt out trash Forever ever delayed Forever ever delayed Forever Forever Forever ever delayed Forever ever delayed Forever Forever Forever ever delayed Forever delayed Forever Forever Forever delayed Forever delayed
Childbirth tears upon her muscle Very first second a screaming icon Babies in time barely even recognise Words that once stroked now bruising tired lips My idea of love comes from A childhood glimpse of pornography Though there is no true love Just a finely tuned jealousy Life becoming a landslide Ice freezing nature dead Life becoming a landslide I don't wanna be a man Everyday more numb to agony This the howl this the sigh of the lonely One day I realise oil on canvas Can never paint a petal so so delicate My idea of love comes from A childhood glimpse of pornography Though there is no true love Just a finely tuned jealousy Life becoming a landslide Ice freezing nature dead Life becoming a landslide I don't wanna be a man Life becoming a landslide Ice freezing nature dead Life becoming a landslide I don't wanna be a My idea of love comes from A childhood glimpse of pornography Though there is no true love Just a finely tuned jealousy Life becoming a landslide A mile empty inside Life becoming a landslide Desire on its knees Life becoming a landslide A mile empty inside Life becoming a landslide Desire on its knees
I am an architect they call me a butcher I am a pioneer they call me primitive I am purity they call me perverted Holding you but I only miss these things when they leave I am idiot drug hive the virgin the tattered and the torn Life is for the cold made warm and they are just lizards Self disgust is self obsession honey and I do as I please A morality obedient only to the cleansed repented I am stronger than Mensa Miller and Mailer I spat out Plath and Pinter I am all the things that you regret A truth that washes that learnt how to spell The first time you see yourself naked you cry Soft skin now acne foul breath so broken He loves me truly this mute solitude I'm draining I know I believe in nothing but it is my nothing Sleep can't hide the thoughts splitting through my mind Shadows aren't clean false mirrors too many people awake If you stand up like a nail then you will be knocked down I've been too honest with myself I should have lied like everybody else I am stronger than Mensa Miller and Mailer I spat out Plath and Pinter I am all the things that you regret A truth that washes that learnt how to spell learnt to spell So damn easy to cave in man kills everything So damn easy to cave in man kills everything So damn easy to cave in man kills everything So damn easy to cave in man kills everything
Mr. Lenin awaken the boy Mr. Stalin bisexual epoch Kruschev self love in his mirrors Brezhnev married into group sex Gorbachev celibate self importance Yeltsin failure is his own impotence Revol revol Revol revol Lebensraum kulturkampf Raus raus Fila fila Napoleon childhood sweethearts Chamberlain you see God in you Trotsky honeymoon serenade the naked Che Guevara you're all target now Pol Pot withdrawn traces bye bye Farrakhan alimony alimony Revol revol Revol revol Lebensraum kulturkampf Raus raus Fila fila Revol revol Revol revol Lebensraum kulturkampf Raus raus Fila fila
Beauty finds refuge in herself Lovers wrapped inside each others lies Beauty is such a terrible thing She is suffering yet more than death
She is suffering She sucks you deeper in She is suffering You exist within her shadow
Beauty she is scarred into man's soul A flower attracting lust, vice and sin A vine that can strangle life from a tree Carrion, surrounding, picking on leaves
She is suffering She sucks you deeper in She is suffering You exist within her shadow
Beauty she poisons unfaithful all Stifled, her touch is leprous and pale The less she gives the more you need her No thoughts to forget when we were children
She is suffering She sucks you deeper in She is suffering Nature's lukewarm pleasure
Libraries gave us power Then work came and made us free What price now for a shallow piece of dignity I wish I had a bottle Right here in my dirty face to wear the scars To show from where I came We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk And we are not allowed to spend As we are told that this is the end A design for life A design for life A design for life A design for life I wish I had a bottle Right here in my pretty face to wear the scars To show from where I came We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk And we are not allowed to spend As we are told that this is the end A design for life A design for life A design for life A design for life We don't talk about love we only want to get drunk And we are not allowed to spend As we are told that this is the end A design for life A design for life A design for life A design for
Shed some skin for the fear within Is starting to hurt me with everything Freed from the memory Escape from our history history And I just hope that you can forgive us But everything must go And if you need an explanation Then everything must go I look to the future it makes me cry But it seems too real to tell you why Freed from the century With nothing but memory memory And I just hope that you can forgive us But everything must go And if you need an explanation Then everything must go Freed us eventually just need to be happy happy And I just hope that you can forgive us But everything must go And if you need an explanation Then everything must go And I just hope that you can forgive us But everything must go And if you need an explanation nation Then everything must go
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I don't know if I'm tired and I don't know if I'm ill My cheeks are turning yellow I think I'll take another pill Praying for the wave to come now It must be for the fifteenth time I've been here for much too long This is the past that's mine I want to fly and run till it hurts Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia I want to fly and run till it hurts Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia In Australia Praying for the wave to come now It must be for the very last time It's twelve o'clock till midnight There must be someone to blame I want to fly and run till it hurts Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia I want to fly and run till it hurts Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia In Australia Australia in Australia I want to fly and run till it hurts Sleep for a while and speak no words in Australia In Australia In Australia In Australia
The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists Bullets for your brain today But we'll forget it all again Monuments put from pen to paper Turns me into a gutless wonder And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next Gravity keeps my head down Or is it maybe shame At being so young and being so vain Holes in your head today But I'm a pacifist I've walked La Ramblas But not with real intent And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next And on the street tonight an old man plays With newspaper cuttings of his glory days And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next And if you tolerate this Then your children will be next Will be next Will be next Will be next
The gap that grows between our lives The gap our parents never had Stop those thoughts control your mind Replace the things that you despise Oh you're old I hear you say It doesn't mean that I don't care I don't believe in it anymore Pathetic acts for a worthless cause in the beginning when we were winning When our smiles were genuine In the beginning when we were winning When our smiles were genuine But now unforgiven the everlasting Everlasting The world is full of refugees They're just like you and just like me But as people we have a choice To end the void with all its force So don't forget or don't pretend It's all the same now in the end It was set in a different life Destroys my days and haunts my nights In the beginning when we were winning When our smiles were genuine In the beginning when we were winning When our smiles were genuine But now unforgiving the everlasting everlasting In the beginning when we were winning When our smiles were genuine In the beginning when we were winning When our smiles were genuine Now unforgiving the everlasting Everlasting But now unforgiving the everlasting Everlasting
Drinking water to stay thin Or is it to purify I love you all the same But there's no no real truce with my fury You don't have to believe me I love you all the same But you stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from You stole the sun from You have broken through my armour And I don't have an answer I love you all the same I paint the things I want to see But it don't come easy I love you all the same But you stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from You stole the sun from Think I'm I'm lost among the undergrowth So much so I woke up I love you all the same But you stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from my You stole the sun from my heart You stole the sun from You stole the sun from I have I've got to stop smiling It gives the wrong impression I love you all the same
For you my dear sister Holding onto me forever Disco dancing with the rapists Your only crime is silence Can't work at this anymore Can't move I want to stay at home Tied up to all these crutches Never far from your hands Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Can't speak can't think won't talk won't walk Doctors tells me that I'm cynical I tell them that it must be chemical So what am I doing girl Cry into my drink I disappear Eyes for teeth grating over me Bring down the shadows of my mind Sleep and breathe under our sheets Inhale the anxiety in between in between in between in between Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Through September under the weather In between in between in between in between Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Tsunami tsunami Came washing over me Take the GI's I will have the spies
Things get clear when I feel free When whatever next comes easily When gentle hands give life to me When your eyes fill with tiny tears When I'm this still you are my life When I'm this still you are my life So at ease in the midnight sky So at ease in the midnight sky But my insides will look like war Paralysed except through my thought So why so sad You live and you love So why so sad Dependent on above Searchin' for the dead sea scrolls So why so why so sad My smile as real as a hyena's My smile as real as a hyena's Burns an expressway to my skull Burns an expressway to my skull But I'll stick myself together again Spirit so low I no longer pretend So why so sad You live and you love So why so sad Dependent on above Searchin' for the dead sea scrolls So why so why so sad So why so sad You live and you love So why so sad Dependent on above Searchin' for the dead sea scrolls So why so why so sad So why so why so sad So why so why so sad So why so why so sad
Show me a wonder You can't be sure of I exist in a place A self made vacuum But still stranded here With all the scum So clean so lost so beautiful But I found that soul Yeah I found that home But I found that soul But I found that soul Yeah I found that now But I found that soul Not a subject Not a subject am I Sick and pale but Strangely alive Broken blood vessels Line my cheeks Reflections look bad And somehow unreal But I found that soul Yeah I found that home But I found that soul But I found that soul Yeah I found that now But I found that soul But I found that soul Yeah I found that home But I found that soul But I found that soul Yeah I found that now But I found that soul Show me a wonder Show me a wonder Show me a wonder Show me a wonder
It's easy to see it's easy to see To see only white where colour should be It's easy to feel it's easy to feel But it's not good enough even though it's real Oh please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray Oh please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray It's easy to breathe it's easy to grieve To breathe only air where life should be It's easy to laugh it's easy to cry To cry so so hard that it can't be denied Oh please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray Oh please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray Oh please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray Oh please stay awake And then we can drink some Ocean Spray
Where are you now Broken up or still around The CIA says you're a guilty man Will we see the likes of you again Can anyone make a difference anymore Can anyone write a protest song Pinky lefty revolutionary Burnt at the stake for A voice so pure a vision so clear I've gotta learn to live like you Learn to sing like you Went to Cuba to meet Castro Never got past sleepy Moscow A giant man with a heavenly voice MK Ultra turned you paranoid No passport 'til 1958 McCarthy poisoned through with hate Liberty lost still buried today Beneath the lie of the USA Say what you want Say what you want A voice so pure a vision so clear I've gotta learn to live like you Learn to sing like you Now let the Freedom Train come zooming down the track Gleaming in the sunlight for white and black Not stopping at no stations marked colored nor white Just stopping in the fields in the broad daylight Stopping in the country in the wide open air Where there never was a Jim Crow sign nowhere And no lilly white committees politicians of note Nor poll tax layer through which colored can't vote And there won't be no kinda color lines The Freedom Train will be yours And mine A voice so pure a vision so clear I've gotta learn to live like you Learn to sing like you Sing it loud sing it proud I will be heard I will be found Sing it loud sing it proud I will be heard I will be found
The world on your shoulders The love of your mother The fear of the future The best years behind you The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you The love of Richard Nixon death without assassination The love of Richard Nixon yeah they all betrayed you The love of Richard Nixon death without assassination Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too Love build around the sandy beaches Love rains down like Vietnam's leeches Richard the third in the White house Cowering behind divided curtains The world is getting older The times they fall behind you The need it still grows stronger The best years never found you The love of Richard Nixon death without assassination The love of Richard Nixon yeah they all betrayed you The love of Richard Nixon death without assassination Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too The love of Richard Nixon death without assassination The love of Richard Nixon yeah they all betrayed you People forget China and your war on cancer Yeah they all betrayed you Yeah and your country too In all the decisions I have made in my public life I have always tried to do what was best for the nation I have never been a quitter
Empty souls will leave their homes To find a place where they're alone Rattling memories and hollow bones Leaves a taste so bitter and cold For empty souls will stand alone Shivering like black eyed dogs Waiting to be taken home Where that is they only know Exposed to a truth we don't know Collapsing like the Twin Towers Falling down like April showers Colossal endless like a marathon God knows what makes the comparison God knows what makes the comparison For the empty souls For the empty souls For empty souls they stand alone Shivering like black eyed dogs Waiting to be taken home Where that is they only know Exposed to a truth we don't know Collapsing like the Twin Towers Falling down like April showers Colossal endless like a marathon God knows what makes the comparison God knows what makes the comparison For the empty souls For the empty souls Colossal endless like a marathon God knows what makes the comparison God knows what makes the comparison For the empty souls For the empty souls
Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough When times get tough they get tough they get tough they get tough Trade all your heroes in for ghosts in for ghosts in for ghosts They're always the one's that love you most love you most love you most Your love alone is not enough not enough not enough It's what you felt it's what you said what you said what you said You said the sky would fall on you fall on you fall on you Through all the pain your eyes stayed Blue they stayed Blue Baby Blue But your love alone won't save the world You knew the secret of the universe Despite it all you made it worse It left you lonely it left you cursed You stole the sun straight from my heart from my heart from my heart With no excuses just fell apart fell apart fell apart No you won't make a mess of me mess of me mess of me For you're as blind as a man can be man can be man can be I could have seen for miles and miles I could have made you feel alive I could have placed us in exile I could have shown you how to cry Your love alone is not enough Your love alone is not enough I could have shown you shown you how to cry Your love alone is not enough Your love alone
Wear your eyes as dark as night Paint your face with what you like Wear your love like it is made of hate Born to destroy and born to create Now baby, what've you done to your hair Is it just the same time of year When you think that you don't really care Now baby, what have you Done to your hair done to your hair done to your hair done to your hair done to your hair, hair So when you hear this autumn song Clear your heads and get ready to run So when you hear this autumn song Remember the best times are yet to come Now baby, what've you done to your hair Is it just the same time of year When you think that you don't really care Now baby, what have you done to your hair Wear your eyes as dark as night Paint your face with what you like Wear your love like it is made of hate Born to destroy and born to create born to create, born to create born to create, born to create So when you hear this autumn song Clear your heads and get ready to run So when you hear this autumn song Remember the best times are yet to come And wear your hair in bunches And your jacket loose So when you hear this autumn song Clear your heads and get ready to run So when you hear this autumn song Clear your heads and get ready to run So when you hear this autumn song Remember the best times are yet to come
If God persists, persists in saying yes I guess we'll have, we'll have to test ourselves Maybe the Summer, will come and clear our minds And find the impulse, to love the sunshine I guess we'll have to test, until there's nothing left We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace This crime is eternity When time lost its certainty The Indian Summer Maybe this time We'll kiss and we'll not shake hands Indian Summer, still hurt and broken And leave all this material belief Remember the reasons The reasons that made us be I guess we'll have to test, what's darker than ourselves We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace This crime is eternity When time lost its certainty The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer I guess we'll have to test, until there's nothing left We said the truth was fixed, it's lost without a trace This crime is eternity When time lost its certainty The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer The Indian Summer
I don't believe in absolutes anymore I'm quite prepared to admit I was wrong This life it sucks your principles away You have to fight against it every single day These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again It is like so many other things As distant as your former sins So sad and lonely and so derelict As the optimism that we once shared These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again I'll send you postcards every single day Just to prove I still exist This world will not impose its will I will not give up and I will not give in And I will not give up and I will not give in These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again These are the postcards from a young man They may never be written or posted again I won't betray your confidence I won't pretend my way was lost This world will not impose its will I will not give up and I will not give in This world will not impose its will I will not give up and I will not give in