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CORPUS VILE LYRICS
"What Does It Take" (1989)
1. Tranquility
2. Ancient Dread
3. Tour of Duty
4. Life is Life
5. Words That Kill
6. Maximum Control
7. Out of Hand
8. Room 237
9. Infidelity
10. Never Learn
11. Oppressed
12. What Does It Take
1. Tranquility
Things seem so calm and motionless
that you have found your death
Leave behind a dying world
In a place without a care
Shed all responsibility
Total state of Tranquility
Who thought death would bring such peace
In a place your truly free
CHORUS
Now that you've died & gone away
Left an earth marred by dismay
No more pain torture or war
Thoughts of life haunt you no more
REPEAT ABOVE
2. Ancient Dread
For many a century man has feared the unknown
He doesn't know what happens after life
is there life or is there just death
When your time comes you will know
The ancient dread has got people down
Scared of life and what lies beyond
But you must face reality that death is life
And life can't last forever
Many of years man has wondered
And worried what will happen when you die
But you can't sit and wait in fear
'Cause you know your time will come
The incubus that haunts us at night
The sucubus that nags us in our sleep
The fear of death and the end
That we call the ANCIENT DREAD ...
REPEAT VERSE ONE & TWO
3. Tour of Duty
Trapped in hell/Living death/Violence surrounds
Too much to take/Innocent suffer/Children die
Their villages burned/No reasons why...
Never thought/War could be/Such needless violence
As a nation bleeds/Where's the glory/Who's a hero
What are we gaining/From this war...?
Meanwhile back home things ain't so calm
Called baby killers and murderers
They don't have shit respect for you
And all you're doing is what you think is right
Had no idea this is what it would be like
And all you're doing is trying to survive
This tour of duty really got you down
Can't stand the thought of having to kill
Time has come you'd rather kill yourself
REPEAT SECOND VERSE
4. Life is Life
Nothing else better to do that day now
But kill the old man at the top of the bay
He's a loser a nice guy to kill
Bash him to death against his own will
CHORUS
Use an axe a hoe or knives
Ignore his pleas to spare his life
As he cries why continue the attack
Hit the road and never come back
LIFE-LIFE-LIFE-LIFE IS LIFE
The light in the sky showed him the way
They knew that this was to be the day
Bludgeoned murder with no reason or rhyme
Something clicks in the head for killing time
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE
Try to find a just cause
How could such an act just happen
Not insane just inspired
Life is life is death
You can research the problem
But never find an answer
When something clicks in the head
It's time for killing time
5. Words That Kill
6. Maximum Control
They've got you under control
And working like a machine
No signs of disorder now they rule again
By maximum control
They monitor your every move
You're in a cell 23 hours a day
Prisoners of society and their laws
Now you're a prisoner of yourself
They've got you under their total
Physical control
But it's up to you to try and save your mind
Cause you know you don't deserve
To be in such an awful place
You should never let them see you
As they hope you are... NEVER!
7. Out of Hand
Well ...
There's trouble brewing all over this place
And the reasons it started I can't relate
Some fucked up people get under your skin
Don't let them ruin it, don't let them in
People try to ban the music and the shows
And the scene's are falling wherever you go
And it's almost always 'cause of a fucked minority
Who start the fight and never see
Because it's getting out of hand all the fights that go on
For such useless reasons I can't understand
So the authority comes down on the music we play
Forget the anarchy shit & get into the scene
Today!
Instigators your the cause of it all
You give the bad rap so the scene's gonna fall
Soon you will ruin every place that we play
Just what the fuck are you trying to gain
The scene is falling everywhere
Too much apathy, too many who couldn't care
To open their minds and accept the change
That the scene is growing everyday
Why can't we have a union of our minds
Don't have to change and be all the same
The music should be open to anyone who'll
care for the underground
REPEAT
8. Room 237
In the state of total seclusion
Isolated from the rest of the world
He thought he had the nerves of steel
But inside of him the insanity he could feel
One man in battle against himself
Inside the Overlook where there's been murder before
Madman returns to urge him to kill
He's got an axe now
Now the blood will spill
Don't go into 237
Dead souls they still lay
Murder and blood in Rm. 237
Redrum will happen today
Butchered children in little pieces
Remains lying in 237
Isolated boredom incites the madness
Death will come at the fall of the axe
9. Infidelity
Christianity is forced down my throat
Everywhere I look/Everywhere I turn
Fucked up preachers getting rich of Jesus
Leading vulnerable people to poverty
Infidelity is my only religion
To disbelieve every religion you preach
'Cause Christianity was developed years ago
By men wanting to destroy the weak
CHORUS
World is falling at your feet
Preachers are spreading lies & deceit
Christians think their the superior race
Look at others as a disgrace
REPEAT FIRST VERSE AND CHORUS
BRIDGE
They walk around in their fur coats
With their noses in the air
Religion only makes them richer
Then they pass the bucks onto the pastor
10. Never Learn
You try once and then again
But the end result is always the same
Your supposed to learn from your mistakes
But you keep on trying and fucking up again
Why don't you see that all things change
And to get somewhere you must make a sacrifice
Your supposed to learn after you fall
But you keep on falling down and down
CHORUS
YOU WILL NEVER LEARN
At the rate your going now
YOU SHOW NO CONCERN
You don't have a chance to be found
MAKE THE WRONG TURNS
But living your life is one thing you can't fake
If you could loosen up and chill out a bit
You wouldn't feel the urge to quit
If you could see what you've done wrong
You'd understand what's going on
REPEAT CHORUS
11. Oppressed
I had trust in your loving kindness `
I had faith when times were good
But now that things have changed for worse
Why do you hide in times of trouble?
I need some guiding help now
And you say it takes time and money
How much does it cost to enter?
Has God forgotten the afflicted?
I TOOK REFUGE - But you weren't there
WHEN TIMES TURNED BAD - You forgot the oppressed
The wicked are the ones who don't believe
The ones who say, "I shalin't be moved."
If we're the ones who prey on the weak
Then why are you the ones who are rich?
In the Lord I took refuge
But you weren't there when times turned bad
You forgot the years of worship
Maybe 'cause you don't exist at all
STRENGTHEN OUR HEARTS - Create love and peace
INSTEAD YOU OPPRESS - You cause our death
12. What Does It Take
What does it take for a second of your time
To sort out problems and break up that fine line
Who has to come forward and be the first to speak
What has to happen to make a difference
What does it take for one to stand above the rest
To realize what's wrong and change it for the best?
What does it take to open all the narrow minds
Not to follow, but to do what you think is right
We're all headed down due to lack of communication
And everyone's thinking is getting too negative
What does it take to keep you satisfied
When will you get everything you want
How long does it take for your endless struggle?
What does it take to shake your hands
Too many problems here and abroad
What does it take to correct what's wrong
To be able to laugh and not take sides?
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