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CRYPTIC SLAUGHTER LYRICS
"Speak Your Peace" (1990)
1. Born Too Soon
2. Still Born, Again
3. Insanity by the Numbers
4. Co-Exist
5. Deathstyles of the Poor and Lowly
6. One Thing Or Another
7. Divided Minds
8. Speak Your Peace
9. Killing Time
1. Born Too Soon
Born too soon and dead the same
Is this the way we all have paved?
A path to walk and nothing more
A fleeting glimpse and through the door
Life can be a cruel jest
The more you change you're like the rest
Try to run but only crawl
Break away into the all
Vision weak
Future bleak
Backs are breaking
In this stink
Work to live
But you don't
Want to get out
You won't
They always push - you back down
You've had enough - still no sound
When will you wake - rise from the grave
Or be a slave - for another day
- For another day
- For another day
- For another day
Blind to sight deaf to sound
Change is coming look around
Blind to sight deaf to sound
Face the change stand your ground
Born too soon
Born too soon
Born too soon
And dead the same
2. Still Born, Again
Uneasy feelings
Which way to turn
Lost in the maelstrom
Starting to burn
Madness surrounds toy when caught up with
Minds so confused
And so I sit
Pitcher in hand
And so I fill
This glass that stands
Chaos controlling with minds that are robbed
Of their wills
Children of the earth
See not their worth
- Wasting their lives
In vain, in pain
- It is no surprise
Stillborn again
Another cig
I slump my head
This here soul
Mistaken dead
Maybe tomorrow we'll all find a way to escape
3. Insanity by the Numbers
Thoughts of war, complete destruction plaguing
My brain
Desperation of a world, when will it change
The need for peace the need for something to
Give me hope
Cause this planet soon will reach the end of its
Rope
Governmental bureaucratic assholes tell me that
All is well
They also tell me that to have peace, stockpiles
Must swell
It seems to be though that their logic somehow
Just doesn't work
They must take us for jerks
Insanity by the numbers
Pushing till we break
It's insanity by the numbers
How much more will we take
We always sit and let them push us around
This is democracy let's stand our ground
For death is certain and life is not
Don't waste the time we got
The final countdown's slowly ticking away
On a clock that's gonna fucking blow us away
We're fighting for our very lies
Do we die or survive
Funny how we've seen its power yet we still build
Wasn't Hiroshima enough, 92,000 dead
But still this insanity keeps on dragging me down
What is this fascination they have with zero ground
It's insanity
4. Co-Exist
Fear! A fear that is learned
- Somebody told you
Hear! What I have to say
- Or must I show you
We're! All in it together
- So don't believe the lies
You're! Gonna make a difference
- But only if you try
Round and round
We keep going
On a train
No sign of slowing
But I tell you it's
Got to slop
Beat a dead horse
Till we drop
Man! We all are the same
- There is no difference
Can't! We ever be one
- And see beyond the skin
Race! Is something to win
- But we keep losing ground
Peace! Before it's too late
- I want to hear the sound
A slight of hand a twisted mind
The touch of hate has made you blind
Fight in the streets can't get no sleep
Pushing and shoving we're in too deep
5. Deathstyles of the Poor and Lowly
Gleaming castles built on bones
There's people dieing don't you know?
You never give you only know how to take
They beg for bread but you say let them eat cake!
Deathstyles of the poor & lowly
Brought to you by the rich & greedy
Doomed to a life of existence at best
But all you say is fuck the needy!
You know I need to know why?
Why they have to die?
Please tell me, why!
Modern condo is your sign of class
Looking down on the lower mass
You're always living like a king
But no, you never share a thing!
You hoard and hoard but never use a drop
No, it sits in warehouses to rot and rot
The poor stand hungry but you pass them by
You know I need, I need to know why?
Deathstyles of the poor & lowly
Brought to you by the rich & greedy
Reality check: life's not like TV
The world's filled with the poor & the needy
You know I need to know why?
Why they have to die?
Please tell me why?
6. One Thing Or Another
Driving fast of taking a blast
Living in a life that just won't last
Jump from a cliff or jump in a pit
Choosing the way your life will pass
Speed is obsessing
Shift into high
Burning so brightly
Raging to die
Who are you?
Can you still see?
Hating your life
Trying to be
Someone you're not
What do you want?
Open your eyes
See what you've got
Fanatics of god
Fanatics of sports
Everyone is a
Fanatic of sorts
Lives in excess
Lives that regress
Degenerated
Are the lives we love best
7. Divided Minds
Printed word of a divided mind
What you read here is just a lie
What you see here you won't find
Start looking for answers in your mind
In your mind, in your mind
Start looking for answers in your mind
In your mind
Keep waving your crosses while you lie in wait
Keep pleading your causes while you sow your hate
You want control so you deceive
With knowledge withheld
We recede!
Unceasing questions of wondering minds
You try to crush them to see what's inside
You see the danger, we call it change
I see the end of your lies and our chains
In my mind, in my mind
I see the end of your lies and our chains
In your mind
8. Speak Your Peace
Look around
What's going on?
Hatred & fear
Violence & anger mounting daily
People running, afraid of the dark
Put down
Talked at
Spit on
I've had enough
Shut up
I'll fucking kill you
Stand up
Slapped down
Ripped off
What are you going to do?
I'm sick of hearing that
There is nothing we can do
I'm sick of hearing nothing
Ever change
What we change changes
What we do gets done
The time seems like forever till
You're there, then it's done
We are running out of time
The problems of this world
Are not going to go away
The problems of this world
Are not going to go away
The time to make the change is now
9. Killing Time
Pressures press
Your station set
Cut your groove
In the bench
Release control
It's for the best
Decrease your will
I'll do the rest
Reality is just a word
It's meaning so obscured
A tried and tested thing of which
I just can't be sure!
People laughing
Cause people died
They had it coming
And so they fried
A mockery
Of faceless men
The justification
Of their end
Get ahead then you're dead
- I guess I'll get behind
Search like mad but you've been had
- There's nothing there to find
Cause reality and sanity
- Are just a state of mind
The clock stops
The floor drops
From far away
You see yourself
Faces flash
Darkness comes
Now betrayed
Now undone
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