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NAPALM DEATH LYRICS
"Bootlegged In Japan" (1998 Live album)
1. Antibody
2. My Own Worst Enemy
3. More Than Meets The Eye
4. Hung
5. Greed Killing
6. Suffer The Children
7. Mass Appeal Madness
8. Cursed To Crawl
9. Glimpse Into Genocide
10. I Abstain
11. Lucid Fairytale
12. Plague Rages
13. Cold Forgiveness
14. Control
15. Diatribes
16. Life?
17. Siege Of Power
18. If The Truth Be Known
19. Unchallenged Hate
20. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
21. From Enslavement To Obliteration
22. The Kill
23. Scum
24. Ripe For The Breaking
1. Antibody
Showering with your respect
Luring all with trinkets
Benifits are in effect
Take time to reflect
on all true commitments
Now the big-noise reject
Communication breakdown
You shrug off the resolve
Riddle with the cancer
How does your life revolve ?
Loser of integrity
Antibody gives new release
Relieves the pain of being sincere
Important to maintain the ties
Mentor in the public's eye
Scandal could expose the lie
A shadow of your former self
reaping the rewards
no scam too outrageous
when there's more
to be fought for
Poisonous snake with a persuasive gaze
Predatory guru with promises of gain
His antibody is a painless extraction
of all the principles he once stood
Fast On
2. My Own Worst Enemy
Played out, wide off the mark,
Mania develops,
Akin to fiction,
More than to a world of fact.
My own worst enemy.
My own worst enemy.
Lifes foul treachery.
My own worst enemy.
Dams of emotions build
A dull and trubid screen,
Clouding veils of black
In jungles of hopes opressed.
So many times,
For no reason.
So many promised punches,
For what reason?
Ceaseless decay,
Parallel obscene and flagrant.
Ceaseless decay,
Restrained my mind coils.
So many times,
For no reason.
So many promised punches,
For what reason?
Ceaseless decay,
Parallel obscene and flagrant.
Ceaseless decay,
Restrained my mind coils.
Played out, wide off the mark,
Mania develops,
Akin to fiction,
More than to a world of fact.
My own worst enemy.
My own worst enemy.
Life foul treachery.
3. More Than Meets The Eye
The clever box 'O' tricks tells me I'm paranoid.
But as I uncover, the sourbess and decay echoes my suspicions-
(There's) more than meets the eye.
Thought process is geared to caution to te wind.
We shuffle along discriminately, the danger signs ignored.
Man goads woman.
Child strikes infant.
Turned against each other.
..of those who think it righteous to liberate the wiser, or those
who punch hardest for the land of competition.
(There's) more than meets the eye.
Head swims, heart cries because hopelessness resides, when man last
falls.
Who'll be left to fight?
(There's) more than meets the eye.
4. Hung
Downwards, downwards-
Life's spiraling descent.
All love is lost.
Premature and unreasoning.
Perversely chained without any values.
Wretched, degraded.
Take it all on the chin.
To forever hold my piece.....
The reins turned noose pull taunt as I fall.
The figment is more painful than the fact,
And I'm the one to hang, just for being me!
The murky clouds wash, solace comforts me not,
And I'm the one to hang, just for being me!
Black numbing blanket smothers attrition once and for all.
5. Greed Killing
The wrong time, the wrong place
Our smiling face of distrust
Buried, the seed deep in all our heads
Prepared ourselves for the fall
The greed killing
Instinct to mistrust
Instinct, the lust
Their butchery of feelings
Geared for the greed killing
The greed killing
Not now, then when?
Not now, then when?
When?
The lust denies the need
Existence is a steady flow
The moulded image grows
No core, no faith in what you are
The pressure builds right from the start
Could it be just sour grapes?
Or have we failed to fit their shape?
It's always give and never take
How much more can we give?
How much more can we take?
6. Suffer The Children
Your unflappable conceptions
Moralistic views
Never open to criticism
Your overpowering ruse
Promises of sanctuary
In eternal bliss
With starry eyes and cash in hand
Pledge all to the master plan
Just face the truth or fund the farce
At one with your god
your sole intent
Your treasured place assured
For a substantial rent
Global lunacy
Death threats for supposed blasphemy
No room for free thought
All non believers pushed to the floor
Aggressive tyrants
Supposed saints for the cause
Judgement through force
Faith a fuel for pointless wars
When all is done
Who shall benefit? Who is the one?
Not those who pass on
But those dictators divine waving their deceitful wands
7. Mass Appeal Madness
Tell me, assure me, I really can't believe your dishonesty.
Dissention, seeking attention, yet segregation from the ones' that
really cared.
Tell me, assure me, I really can't believe your dishonesty.
Cash styled deadhead, no conscience or opinions.
Material gain bar happiness means shit.
It means shit.
Mass appeal madness eats your brain. False influence like a leach.
Sucking dry your veins.
Public eyes see fit your second face.
Freakshow - fooling those who imitate.
Clever marketing to dominate. Screwing those who gave you your big
break.
And when the bubble bursts, exposing your selfish crap.
You'll cry for sympathy, we'll just sit back and laugh.
8. Cursed To Crawl
A fragile peace that exists inside
A frame so shallow
So narrow-minded
An open wound
We run inside
A raging turmoil
Helplessness confides
Cursed to crawl
For my pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Enter this sphere
Commonplace, borderline
Between my rage
Between our hate
Damn our mistakes
Fixation blinds
The pain of knowing
The truth beyond
Cursed to crawl
For my pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Cursed to crawl
For my pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Unprepared
A gruesome display
Perhaps a replay
Self-inflicted
Reduced to nothing
My piece of mind seduced
Unworthiness
The scars never heal
Cursed to crawl
For my pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
9. Glimpse Into Genocide
Blindless leading
Which one of me is real?
Through corridors of uncertainty
A force without form
I've dug a hole so deep
Full of the shit of compromise
For once can't I keep
Pain on the outside
Adapt
Take on release
Others
Thoughts infringed
Adapt
Take on release
A life
On pause syringed
A glimpse into genocide
My own emotions, a million strong
A heart so full of emptiness
10. I Abstain
I abstain!
Summon my pride? What pride lies behind blinkered eyes?
Your vigilance is shit!
"The lads together" - you'll fall!
Smug complacency, notions of reserving the right to think with your fists.
I abstain from this mundane apathy.
Committed to "all for red, white and blue" in effect you're fighting
for what's really fighting you.
"Grit those teeth, push out those chests" tears only for the flag.
Always the brave patriot as you slip to second class.
But you stand steadyfast?
People are not subjects, why should the few get more respect?
Open your eyes!
Imperialism feeds off you, not patrons but patronized.
Open your eyes!
They're shaping you - you're trapped with "pomp and circumstance"
Lose your discretion.
Soon, you'll not fall from grace endorse their rhetoric you fade,
they prosper.
They're shaping you - you're trapped with "pomp and circumstance"
Lose your discretion.
Soon, you'll not fall from grace endorse their rhetoric you fade,
they prosper.
I abstain!
Don't be a colonial slave.
Don't substantiate the act.
11. Lucid Fairytale
Delude yourself with the notion
That life's viewed defiantly through your eye
Subconsciously following the flock
From which appearance is the only exemption
The stagnant illusion of change
Concealed behind your disguise
What's perspicious on the surface
Is artificial inside
When views are merely symbolic
Of an image you hide behind
The stagnant illusion of change
Concealed behind your disguise
12. Plague Rages
Scale the inferno, take it all in
Am I right or wrong, or just confused?
Glamorized, dare I say it?
Fantasized, but through who's eyes?
Not theirs, that's for sure!
Rebuff beliefs that we've lost.
A plague rages in all our hearts.
Am I the last in line?
To stop and turn, and pretend that we're really changing.
I'd sooner DIE!...........
13. Cold Forgiveness
25 years severed,
Take it and like it,
Feel like there's nothing more,
And your story.
Thirsty, despised,
Real love destroys.
Hungry for anger.
Hungry for... anger.
The face behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
The face behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Race against time, collapse.
Fall in line, nothing is sacred.
14. Control
There is a fascist
Inside of you
Controlling your life
And what you do
Fascist control
There is a fascist
Inside your head
Controlling your thoughts
Until your death
Fascist control
15. Diatribes
Bite the bit, scream till you're blue the face.
Nice pipe dreams or passive revolution?
Foot soldiers
With weapons of placarde and banners.
How will they stop the rot?
No standing to reason,
'cause reason is treason -
It doesn't feasible.
No standing to reason,
'cause reason is treason -
It doesn't feasible.
Lie down.
And cry all you can.
The machine rolls over you.
No standing to reason,
'cause reason is treason -
It doesn't feasible.
No standing to reason,
'cause reason is treason -
It doesn't feasible.
It just don't seem feasible - NO!
Black to the Nazi - try pleading affinity
Hands up, boot in, shattering the passive dream.
But is it right to tolerate this fucked democratic process? - NO!
Shattering the passive dream
Is it 'cause we like to hear the sound of our voice?
Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma.
Time to return compliments, shattering the passive dream?
16. Life?
Brought into this emptiness
Never hope or choice
Emotionless and cold
This is life?
Illusions shattered
An existence of lies
A constant struggle
Freedom denied
At their feet - submission
No sanctuary in death
Drugged up, fucked up
Is that all you're worth?
17. Siege Of Power
Siege of power
In your land
Too many problems
For you to understand
Siege of power
Inside your mind
Outward restrictions
To keep you in line
Siege of power - in your land
Too many problems - for you to understand
A slave of their power - you never question why
Your going to suffer - you're going to die
Siege of power - inside your mind
Outward restrictions - to keep you in line
You're a slave of their power - you never questioned why
You were made to suffer - you were born to die
Siege of power
They made you a tool
While others were ruling
You were being ruled
18. If The Truth Be Known
Your self-determined place of value
Think before you act!
Can you justifiably criticise
A situations development
Sometimes there's only a single path
Which we have to walk
You realise before you even speak
That we're standing in a one-way street
Why should we retreat? - To satisfy your gain?
Think hard - tell me
What's your actual thoughts?
Could you even give your brain the time of day?
I'm not defending things I've said or done
But let he without sin
Cast the first begrudging stone
If the truth be known
you desire to judge unchallenged
and revel in the according attention
19. Unchallenged Hate
A chronic complaint of dimness
Prevails your profound ideology
A romantic vision of a "master race"
Attained through coercive forms of authority
Your observance is negligence
If you see the threat from different cultures
We're all in this sinking ship
All of us together
Where does the white man stand?
Where does the black man stand?
Where do we all fucking stand?
KNEE DEEP IN THE SHIT!
Look into yourself
And you'll find the real oppressor
To a life of unchallenged hate
It's you who's the nigger!
20. Nazi Punks Fuck Off
Punk ain't no religious cult,
punk means thinking for yourself
You ain't hardcore
'cause you spike your hair,
when a jock still lives inside your head
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Fuck off!
If you've come to fight, get outta here.
You ain't no better than the bouncers.
We ain't trying to be the police.
When you ape the cops,
it ain't anarchy.
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Fuck off !
Ten guys jump one, what a man!
You fight each other,
the police state wins
Stab your backs
when you trash our halls
Trash a bank
if you've got real balls
You still think
swastikas look cool.
The real nazis run your schools.
They're coaches, businessmen and cops.
In the real fourth reich,
you'll be the first to go.
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Nazi punks,
Fuck off !
You'll be the first to go.
You'll be the first to go.
You'll be the first to go.
Unless you think.
21. From Enslavement To Obliteration
Commited to a life of slavery
In the factories our own hands have built
Where we must work twice the graft
Before gaining the goods we've already slogged to create
To consume all things material
Stands above human compassion
As we compete with our fellow man
In the bid for a stronger position
In our ruthless search for prosperity
We become the tools of our own oppression
Forming the backbone of a society
That thrives on mass division
From enslavement...
To obliteration...
22. The Kill
There's nothing to gain
You have just been led
The kill, after death, the kill
The shit you were promised
Means nothing now you're dead
The kill, after death, the kill
23. Scum
In your mind
Nothing but fear
You can't face life
Or believe death's near
A vision of life
On television screens
An existence created
From empty dreams
Hide behind T.V.
Hide behind life
You should be living
But you only survive
Life holds nothing
But pain and death
Don't look for love
There is none left
24. Ripe For The Breaking
You weren't born with the world falling at your feet
The path is long and agonizing being dragged on your knees
And the silver spoon in your mouth tasted spoilt with rust
When all that glitters isn't gold and fortunes turn to dust
You're prime for the raping
And when you don't pander to meet the agenda
Scavengers start to gather
Perverse visionaries taste the lather
The just rewards in controlled rebellion
Tossed and probed like a gristly piece of meat
Lock, stock, and barrel slave
You just don't contradict big brother
He's got the right to push you under
And they pledge you the earth, then pull you six feet down
And you're branded with the stigma; unusable dropouts
And with inspiration ravaged, you take the final bow
The creative demeanor shatted into a million pieces
You're ripe for the breaking
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