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NAPALM DEATH LYRICS
"Diatribes" (1996)
1. Greed Killing
2. Glimpse into Genocide
3. Ripe for the Breaking
4. Cursed to Crawl
5. Cold Forgiveness
6. My Own Worst Enemy
7. Just Rewards
8. Dogma
9. Take the Strain
10. Diatribes
11. Placate, Sedate, Eradicate
12. Corrosive Elements
1. 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?
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Just Rewards
I lived for a moment
I grabbed hold and I didn't relent
Skin of my teeth,
Holds no longer.
And now I come to claim my just rewards.
Face down! Ground down with no recourse.
And now I come to claim my just rewards.
The spoils of the toils are spent.
Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?
If the face fits, wear it
Faces fit while heart and soul slopes on.
Scraping through - Just Rewards!
Dig the dirt - Just Rewards!
Hold your ground - Just Rewards!
Being sucked down -Just Rewards!
Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?
When you lay down on your own law,
You swim against the sanctimonious tides.
When you lay down on your own law,
You swim against the sanctimonious tides.
Down not out - Just Rewards!
Looping tracks - Just Rewards!
Stuned growth - Just Rewards!
Dwindling hope - Just Rewards!
I lived for a moment
I grabbed hold and I didn't relent
Skin of my teeth,
Holds no longer.
And now I come to claim my just rewards.
8. Dogma
Innocence -
a painful reminescene
Of what was not
And will never be.
Meant not for me.
An unjust war
On the futile.
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill.
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill.
Scraps of memories
Flung from our master's table.
A plan I'm sure to disable.
Allegiance to none other.
Allegiance to none other.
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless.
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless.
Graceful - selfish will,
The chilling thrill,
A play on the nerves to end "all serves".
As penance
To a man's drying tear,
My leer but deny ourselves.
Graceful - a selfish will,
The chilling thrill,
A play on the nerves to end "all serves"
As penance
To a man's drying tear,
My leer but deny ourselves.
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless.
Renegat a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless.
9. Take the Strain
Take the strain! Can you take it?
Take the strain! Or even fake it?
Take the strain! Aren't we lucky
Take the strain! to be breathing?
Take the strain!
Are you the man in the next bed
Without the tubes, without the life support?
Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down/
Take the strain! Do you wear strife
Take the strain! like a clown?
Take the strain! Forgiveness
Take the strain! with a frown!
Take the strain!
Are you the animal
That escapes the snares and traps?
Bearing no quarry scars, and the hunter's crown.
We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!
NEver to challenge the singular pack.
The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp!
Chaising tails without the basic facts.
Choose full pain, violate, make the grade.
Taut wires fray, electro-brain, take the strain!
We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack.
The goals they set slip the grasp - slip our grasp!
Chaising tails without the basic facts.
10. 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?
11. Placate, Sedate, Eradicate
Load the burden across my shoulders.
Pour the effluent on thick.
Placate, sedate, eradicate.
Wage a war on my prone feelings.
Anaesthetised and numb.
Placate, sedate, eradicate.
Strangely calm when I should be enranged.
Placate, sedate.
Placate, sedate.
Eradicate.
Don't befriend the silver screen,
As long as others face firing lines.
Recline, relax take it in your stride,
Be the voyeur.
Tamed by rabid entertainers.
Engrossed in real life hell.
Placate, sedate, eradicate.
Only observing - I'm exempt.
12. Corrosive Elements
Staying on an even keel.
Keeping a gauge.
Sanity hags in the balance.
I could go either way.
Celberal half life.
The darkest summer days.
My pressure defences melting away.
'Cause I can't level this brimming, seething dread.
My pressure defences melting away.
With anxiety I'm burning!
Stripping down to the core.
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements inducing.
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements that sap being.
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements inducing.
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements that sap being.
Corrosive elements - joy toxin.
Corrosive elements - please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements - joy toxin.
Corrosive elements - please cleanse me!
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