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NAPALM DEATH LYRICS
"Live Corruption" (1993 Live album)
1. Intro
2. Unchallenged Hate
3. Life?
4. The Kill
5. Scum
6. If The Truth Be Known
7. Lucid Fairytale
8. Control
9. Walls Of Confinement
10. Malicious Intent
11. Social Sterililty
12. Suffer The Children
13. From Enslavement To Obliteration
14. Dead / Practice What You Preach
15. Mentally Murdered
16. Extremity Retained
17. Mind Snare
18. Success?
19. Rise Above
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1. Intro
2. 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!
3. 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?
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Walls Of Confinement
Before my eyes I see a wall
12,000 miles high
And the same amount wide
Within that wall are faces
Of people
To whom I could once relate
Now communication seems hard
When there's an ego barrier to break through
Opinions of self opinion
Cloud a new horison
The vision a mere illusion
Blased in conclusion
Trapped in seclusion
To the outside - exclusion
When an attitude is so biassed
What can you expect to change?
Banging your head
But the walls are not moving
It's enclosing
Burning so much energy
Enthusiasm burning
Is change the 'real' obsession?
Or with a sense of pretention,
Do you merely strive for credible attention???
10. Malicious Intent
Previous times you stuck by me
Relations fine undeniably
Mutual trust and honesty
The essential recipe
There's two sides to a coin
Opinions numbered many
Yet resolve came with ease
Compromised and regret - free
Then the vhange of expression
A unit of friends and the chance to be free
Your thoughts on these cast a jealous light
A concensus of hate to accompany
A vindictive acid taste
Flows from your chalice
Valued friendships tainted
Martyr of malice
Then the final straw
Violent intimidation
Your self acclaimed pacification
Brushed aside for self-gratification
Blatant ignorance - martyr of malice
11. Social Sterililty
Time for my omittance
From a sterile existance
Where the weekend pays homage
To stereotypical perpetuation
Must inebriate my senses
Into a state of delirium
Before I turn to the meat-rack
For my penial selection
Apathy spreads
In unison with social disease
A scourge that infests
The cattle markets of youth
Unconscious, just promiscuous
Deprived of self-respect
In the selling of their bodies
All emotions dead!
Thoughts absorbed
Lost in sense of direction
It's time to sit down
And reassess my course of action
12. 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
13. 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...
14. Dead / Practice What You Preach
DIE!!!
Preaching secondhand ideas
Tried and tested subjects rear
Practice what you preach
A moral attitude you think they lack
Lacks in you when you turn your back
Practice what you fucking preach!
Taking all that you can get
Forgetting everything you've said
But was it really meant?
15. Mentally Murdered
Your aspirations, unable to stretch
Beyond the barriers of what's expected
As the free thought you were born with
Becomes externally ploluted
Lose sight of your ideals
In their brainwashing institutions
Predetermine your values
To befit your substandard existence ...
Discouraging creativity
To aim for empty ambitions
Living up to other's expectations
Takes hold of your assiduity
Mentally murdered!
The will to succeed
Overpowers the will to resist
Mentally murdered!
Always up to the mark
Set the wheels in motion
A fake sense of security
From your invariable position
Sinking in the crowd
A face minus expression
A mouth that echoes words
Recycled from tradition
Your only contentness
Is living in a lie
Mentally murdered!
Do you possess the strength
To re-create your own life?
Mentally murdered?
16. Extremity Retained
You come to us and criticise
Without prior inspection
Judge us as a waste of time
An incorrect perception
Just a noise - your shallow view
An opinion I find misconstrued
There's probably more thought in what we do
Than a large part of what appeals to you
Why should we? - Why the need to justify?
Only in others' presence are you motivated to jeer and jibe
Everybody has the right to opinionise
But to us your pettiness is used to occupy your tiny minds
Extremity retained- never fall into your line
17. Mind Snare
Reasoning poison in the vein
Chasing the dragon who's frying your brain
The shit that once gave you the high
Now controls your escape from proverbial cloud nine
Sad dependancy - Brainfried society
Mindsnare
All essence of being in turmoil
Your white powder god brings life to the boil
Forget all you family and friends
Heroin becomes guardian till the end
Jack-up
Its powers of deception
Seems to null all daily strain
But just another fix
Grip on reality fades out day by day
18. Success?
Climb the ladder, your security
Upward social mobility
Consume the lies "It's what you need"
Vicious circle of mindless greed
Where is your success gained from?
What of the lives you're shat upon?
Caught in the web you'll play the game
An artifical life but who's to blame?
19. Rise Above
At time of birth,
Minds free from suspicion,
Senses raped,
Induced with superstition.
A pre-set mode
To befit description,
Language, colour,
Race definition!
Inner strength must detect
The love we each possess
before we may reach,
Appreciating it in anyone else.
External distinctions
Used as scapegoats to problems,
Channelling our aggression
In the wrong direction.
Break down the barriers
That enforce superstition
Learn to trust,
Overcome suspicion.
Acceptance, the weapon,
Active against our freedom,
Our love and compassion
Held at treason.
Rise above induced superstition.
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