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DéTENTE LYRICS
"Recognize No Authority" (1986)
1. Losers
2. Russian Roulette
3. It's Your Fate
4. Holy Wars
5. Catalepsy
6. Shattered Illusions
7. Life is Pain
8. Blood I Bleed
9. Widow's Walk
10. Vultures in the Sky
1. Losers
You work so fucking hard to achieve your ideal
in the time that you've allowed, but, no, the guarantee didn't hold up, swallow hard and bite back the fear
It's always been this way, you just deceive yourself into thinking everything is fine. Cut your wrists, watch them bleed, a drop for every promise you can't keep
You're a loser, not a winner, you were born to lose
Them that has gets and you've got nothing, you're a loser not a winner
It's always been this way, nothing ever changes
It's always been this way, you just deceive yourself into thinking everything is fine. Cut your wrists, watch them bleed a drop for every promise you can't keep
You're a loser, not a winner, you were born to lose
Them that has gets and you've got nothing, you're a loser not a winner
It's always been this way, nothing ever changes
2. Russian Roulette
Nations untrustworthy, room filled with gasoline
Two men striking matches so they can see
They raise their guns and dare each other play a game of death
We call it...
Russian Roulette
One chance is all you get
Chambers loaded, you got the hammer cocked
Barrels at your head, yeah, a prayer's what you've got
Detente is undermined by the savages who lead us blind towards Armageddon or worse
Russian Roulette
One chance is all you get
Russian Roulette
Russian Roulette
One chance is all you get
Russian Roulette
3. It's Your Fate
Born into a class structure, rich man or slave at his feet
Bystander or maker of crime killing in war or doing time
The elders who possess the power build arsenals in defense
you pay the price for their fears, their memories they won't forget
It's your fate, you don't decide
It's your fate, struggle just to survive
No hope, no hope for you who come from the slums
The verdict in long before your first breath filled your lungs
Tomorrow you'll rise, look around you, wonder why
All you see in decay. Fate has not been kind
It's your fate, you don't decide
It's your fate, struggle just to survive
Tomorrow you'll rise, look around you, wonder why
All you see in decay. Fate has not been kind
It's your fate, you don't decide
It's your fate, struggle just to survive
It's your fate, you don't decide
4. Holy Wars
Suicidal bomber dying for a cause, and the life you're losing
it's well worth the price
You're on a mission for your god
and the innocents you take with you are examples for us all
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know who it's for
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know what it's for
I watch you, soldier, as you stab her and laugh, her mother draws her near
She takes her last breath
Then you unfold your leader's picture, show him what you've done
Then you kiss his photo, praise this holy one
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know who it's for
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know what it's for
I watch you, soldier, as you stab her and laugh, her mother draws her near
She takes her last breath
Then you unfold your leader's picture, show him what you've done
Then you kiss his photo, praise this holy one
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know who it's for
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know what it's for
Holy war, holy war. You keep on dying, you don't know who it's for
Holy war, holy war. You keep killing, you don't know what it's for
5. Catalepsy
6. Shattered Illusions
The giant fears that creep upon you as you gaze with open eyes at the world that surrounds you, hollow shells of faded dreams
Somewhere close I feel your breath and somewhere I sense death
What I felt for you last night is dying with the morning light
Shattered illusions makes me confused
Shattered illusions
Start making every scene searching every bar
You're working on another scheme, illusion takes you but how far
Somewhere close I feel your breath and somewhere I sense death
What I felt for you last night is dying with the morning light
Shattered illusions makes me confused
Shattered illusions
Shattered illusions makes me confused
Shattered illusions
It's not supposed to be this way!
7. Life is Pain
Deceived by false hopes into thinking there was something more
I've let what matters slip away
Like grains of sand falling from my hands
All tomorrows are yesterdays
No one really cares
They're just out to survive
and if you find it hard to believe
you're the one who's living a lie
Oh yes, my life is pain, all was taken that I gave
Left with only broken promises
All tomorrows are yesterdays
No one really cares
They're just out to survive
and if you find it hard to believe
you're the one who's living a lie
Can't you see you're wasting time
Believing in a better day that never comes
All the prayers that you pray won't change tomorrow from yesterday
No one really cares
They're just out to survive
and if you find it hard to believe
you're the one who's living a lie
Death to our false love, we live only to be gratified
Raise the sword high, strike us down
8. Blood I Bleed
You don't know me, I owe you not a thing
yet you believe it's your right to take it all
Wanting a slave you can devour
I should fulfill your need
Not on your life!
Abuse me, exploit me
thick and red the blood I bleed
Dominate, defile me
drink it down, the blood I bleed
Drill in my mind little girls are tolerated
often used, despised and hate
Gonna rot alone in their middle ages
kept in line must control their rages
I see you've moved to another key holder
One's gonna treat you much better
He gives you strong advice about your life, girl
Now that lover you trust and believe in has got you in a corner charging a fee, yeah
I rip the flesh from you bones
I laugh as I watch it fall away
The blood from your veins falls like a shower
This passion you want to control
Abuse me, exploit me
Abuse me, exploit me
Abuse me, exploit me
Abuse me, exploit me
thick and red the blood I bleed
Dominate, defile me
drink it down, the blood I bleed
drink it down, the blood I bleed
9. Widow's Walk
I the judge and the jury
I deliver the sentence
You who've not seen the light of day
shall die before you awaken
There is no force in my life that I cannot control
I have your seed, I spit it on the ground
I will not reap what you've sown
On the widow's walk he waits for thee
On the widow's walk I call your name
I'll give to you what you gave to me
a term of confusion and pain
I stand alone, await your return
I have nothing to gain
I'll give to you what you gave to me
a term of confusion and pain
I stand alone, await your return
I have nothing to gain
You can change fate's decree
On the widow's walk, I wait for thee
10. Vultures in the Sky
Can't you see we don't care about you?
Can't you see we don't want your kind?
We give you weapons to kill each other
Can't you see, or are you blind?
Vultures in the sky, flying overhead
Vultures in the sky looking for the dead
Vultures in your sky
You're doing just what we want you to do
killing off your population
We've got you by your stupid pride
Rewarding it with frustration
Vultures in the sky, flying overhead
Vultures in the sky looking for the dead
Vultures in the sky, flying overhead
Vultures in the sky, they're looking for the dead
Vultures in the sky (x4)
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