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MIND OVER FOUR LYRICS
"Mind Over Four" (1989)
1. Social Stature
2. Vernal Equinox
3. The Culmination
4. Hero
5. Half A Man
6. Messiah
7. The Black Orgasm
8. The Mile Between The Molecule
9. Winter
1. Social Stature
She walked in the room and
proceeded to crawl on the floor
Asked me my name but I cannot
hand over that information to you
This is no place for a lady of
Social stature
This is no place, no place for a lady
A crown of thorns floats inside your head
I tried to kill you but you're already dead
to ideas that will set you free
Come down, down here with me
I the fool trapped inside
the river flows, the river knows
We the men with the miracle mile
The river flows the children are blind
Half closed eyes
Brazen minds
The naked rivers have fear
2. Vernal Equinox
The black velvet sky drops to the sea
the dull grey knife pierces my tongue
My eyes bulge out with fear
Respectfully ask for pardon or plea
Scratching my eyeballs
The vernal equinox is here
Hear their cry "the war is near"
invoke the fear inside
the brave subside to asking "why are we here?"
Why are we here?
I the thick cord
wrapping tightly, squeezing slowly
I the thick blood
coarsing swiftly, spilling quickly
from my veins
The blood has turned its shade
again and again and again
The shell is cracked inside your mind
your eyes are steel, glass, coal
Your life is passing slowly by
and you feel the main
And then they come, and then you go
and then they come
Your life is passing slowly now
Your time it fades
Your eyes are steel, coal, clear as pride
And you know the same
and then they come, and then you go
and then they come
Drive you sane, they cannot drive me sane
Will not drive us sane
Slash the wrists
I long to feel the summer
black the sun out, feel the snow
Around the circle falling to you
calling to you, falling, to you
I long to see your eyes
And look inside your deepest mind
the secrets that you hide from me
turning softly
Do you still want to go?
3. The Culmination
The whisper of a young child
can change a world of sorrow
An old man wipes his brow
And wonders where the years go
The strings that mesh to form the net
That's the culmination
The things we fight to unite our struggles into one
The roads we choose, the friends we lose
The ones we leave behind
Decide our fate
You're asking me to love
It's love that drive me home
You're asking me to love
it's love that turns you on
Miss Tai Sche Chuau
sewer at the factory
For years to see America
now she sees the factory
she wanted to succeed
Did she get what she deserved?
No
4. Hero
Feel invisible noose around my neck
tightening up with each problem
Giving up aint so easy
Hard to go on
That's life
Status quo
If you stay
I'm gonna go
Inner city crime peak higher
Heroin, coke, pot desire
Killing each other for a fix
Cops dealing the dirties tricks
That's life
It's easy
Conform
It's easy
D. Boon is dead
Minutemen warn civilians, yeah
the thinkers are coming
Pasadena gangs when he was young
Lock a race into the ghetto
System lies never let go
One lie leads to another
No one sees defeated brothers
Liar, they're hurting
They don't deserve it
5. Half A Man
Life is all we have my dear
Time is all we have this year
Draws us back and holds us in
Shelters from the world within
Life is all we have my dear
Time is all we have this year
Draws us back and holds us well
Shelters from the depths of hell
Looks inside himself and finds half a man
Prays to greed and lusts for power
Television worship hour
Life is all we have my dear
Time is all we have this year
Draws us back and holds us well
Shelters from the depths of
Lifetime
6. Messiah
They call me their messiah
Jesus Christ, I held myself ou to them
They laugh as my children
Stretch their bodies
Hold themselves out to me
The dancing masses lead to nowhere
dancing masses lead nowhere
The dancing masses lead to nowhere
dancing masses lead nowhere
I set the minds of my teachers on fire
they burn the eyes of the ones I love, love
Truth cuts with two sides
Casting heads of state to fire
Burn forever
Mother nature, motherfuckers
They call me their messiah
They crucified me but I still love them
7. The Black Orgasm
Voices call men to action
Orchestra tunes to traffic
Helicopter swoops in men
Pulls your body from the wreckage
Children sing electric broken melodies
voices from a system of frenzy
Lifetimes have beens pent for less
you left things I remember, like
My life means more than this
My life means more than this
Voices call men to action
Orchestra tunes to traffic
Helicopter swoops in men
Pulls your body from the wreckage
They sing
Children sing electric broken melodies
Voices from a system of frenzy
8. The Mile Between The Molecule
Down travelling down through time and space
Penetrating at the base of building reality
In the beginning there was nothing
Man had no dimensions
He did not exist
God proceeded to create
Man has come a long way down
Man has come a long way down
In the beginning there was nothing
Man had no dimensions
Everything is happening so fast
He did not exist
God proceeded to create
In the beginning there was nothing
Man had no dimension
Travel the mile between the molecule
Man has come a long way down
Man has come a long way down
Man has come a long way down
Once stoned I was inudated aroused
Genuinely curious to find
Answers and questions
To lead me this
Insignificant visions
Amassed a load
Heavy and slow
Not easy
To escape from power
Man has come a long way down
Man has come a long way down
Man has come a long way down
The alluring appeal of escape
and long journeys within
The deppest recesses of the mind
Full spectum noddage
Full spectum noddage
In the beginning there was nothing
Man had no dimensions
He did not exist
God proceeded to create
9. Winter
Winds are blowing
lives are slowing
Constance is catching up
dry things crumble
Soon is all new again
when all thigns are settled
Don't be sad
time is for everything
Leave it for your favorite time
The clouds in your head
The clouds in your head
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