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SKYCLAD LYRICS
"Another Fine Mess" (2001 Live album)
1. Intro
2. Another Fine Mess
3. Cardboard City
4. Art-Nazi
5. The Wickedest Man in the World
6. The One Piece Puzzle
7. Still Spinning Shrapnel
8. Just What Nobody Wanted
9. Sins of Emission
10. Land of the Rising Slum
11. Alone in Death's Shadow
12. Spinning Jenny
1. Intro
2. Another Fine Mess
A girl read my runes in the warm dressing room, It was then that I started to think There has to be something really worth hunting - I reach for another strong drink. For ten lonely years - that's my reward. My ego and I we have faced many dangers. Fear and self loathing have never been strangers. Nobody knows of the depths we have been to - Or all the fine messes we've got ourselves into. For ten lonely years - that's my reward. In my world far removed from the actual - Safe in my small amorality capsule. I cruise far aloof from the other world's laws- Hiding behind tinted windows and doors. I'm so tired of living - Too weary to cry, Too stubborn to give in - Curl up and die. This whole situation has I must confess, All the tell-tale signs of another fine mess. I've been run aground - a ship in a bottle, Caught in the eye of the storm. Deep in my strife found the meaning of life - You're dying the moment you're born. My heart bears the scars even time can't disguise, If you only knew what I've seen through these eyes. Oftimes overwhelmed by the feelings of doubt, I have crawled in a bottle to shut them all out. Will I drown in the sweat of this chemical dream, With far too much blood in my alcohol stream? When Mr. Jack Daniels has read my last rights - His friend 'Billy Whizz' comes to turn on the lights. First we were plastered in Paris, Then we were frying in Greece. Caught between heaven and hellfire, Send for an ambulance - fetch me a priest. I've been run aground - a ship in a bottle, Caught in the eye of a storm. Deep in my strife found the meaning of life - You're dying the moment you're born. "A band on ship" the captain cried, We bought damnation duty-free. Now we're floating with the tide - "The silent whales of lunar sea." I've been run aground - a ship in a bottle, Caught in the eye of the storm. Deep in my strife found the meaning of life - You're dying the moment you're born.
3. Cardboard City
Hands locked in darkness - a nocturnal greeting We flutter like moths round the brazier's flame Shrouded in shadow - our clandestine meeting Here where past and present are one and the same. No-one dies in Cardboard City Faces only fade away Eat your pride and take their pity Fight to live another day. And did those feet in ancient times Walk bare upon these lonely streets like mine? Does God watch us from that penthouse high above His children down below who live on air and love? Wrapped in old headlines beneath this shop awning I shiver in silence and wait for the morning. No-one cries in Cardboard City That would be a waste of tears Eat your pride and take their pity Like you have so many years. Youth of our nation - A lost generation Like lepers we march to the chimes of Big Ben. Exiled and rejected by powers elected Our cries from the gutter don't reach number ten. Give us this day our daily bread Before the headlines read "bring out your dead." Chip-wrapper flowers are blown onto this cardboard grave My spray paint epitaph upon the wall it says... "Here lies the bones of some poor homeless vagrant He died as he lived, in the shit on the pavement." No-one dies in Cardboard City Faces only fade away Eat your pride and take their pity Fight to live another day. No-one cries in Cardboard City That would be a waste of tears Eat your pride and take their pity Like you have so many years.
4. Art-Nazi
Twist the truth - then twist your arm,
It's the Emperor Caligula School of Charm,
Don't take his word 'cause it's not worth having it
(he's an Art-Nazi)
He's a tinpot Hitler gone berserk,
A self-made man from another man's work,
More tonque in cheek than a french kiss from Judas Iscariot.
I've been to a prison - one of my own making,
I sent myself there when I signed on the line.
A pact with the Devil so legally binding -
Now he owns my soul 'til the end of time.
He owns all we eat - all we breathe,
All we take and all we leave,
All we are and all we ever will be.
Think of all the time and the energy we've wasted.
Learning how the sole of a Jack-boot tasted,
Anyone would think that he was doing us a favour -
(he's an Art-Nazi)
His name goes hand in hand with notoriety -
Bigot of the highly illegitimate variety.
I'm sick of eating shit - can I try another flavour.
What you give with one hand you take with the other,
We are your puppets and you pull the strings.
Don't make the fatal mistake of forgetting -
It's never really over 'til the fat lady sings.
He knows all we think - all we do,
Head he wins - and tails we lose.
He's our Fuhrer - he's our Lord and Master.
Twist the truth - then twist your arm,
It's the Emperor Caligula School of Charm,
Don't take his word 'cause it's not worth having it -
(He's an Art-Nazi)
He's a tinpot Hitler gone berserk,
A self-made man from another man's work,
More tonque in cheek than a french kiss from Judas Iscariot.
His name goes hand in hand with notoriety -
Bigot of the highly illegitimate variety.
I'm sick of eating shit - can I try another flavour.
5. The Wickedest Man in the World
I stand here before you The way life has made me Ill mannered, foul mouthed Bad tempered and lazy I stare at your world Down the neck of a bottle Every day is a death ride When I hold the throttle. To the drowning I am water For your calm I am the storm I'm the fiend who's with your daughter In bed well before the dawn. Was I the cat that got the bird? They'll put the blame on me Everything was grand in wonderland Till Charles Manson came to tea. Each moment's a game And I must play it to win And if you cannot bear it Then you'll just have to grin All the world is a stage So I aim to upstage you ("By the pricking of my thumbs") Kill me off - but like Banquo I'll come back to plague you ("Something wicked this way comes") All martyrs seek their cross and nails The rebels grail his cause So I'll just sign away my soul And forget the buy-out clause. The few who see me through my disguise Abhore, deplore, hate and despise me I care not what you perceive Fall unto your knees Jack the Ripper went to Sunday school With his best friends Mack the Knife And the blue eyed boy Who lives next door He's a junkie Jesus Christ. Do you think I'll be sad 'cus you don't like me Well I consider it highly unlikely Spill the milk but I won't cry My eyes are watertight Like my alibi. Yes I'll love you then leave you For no apparent reason My names are many My friends call me "Legion" The light that casts the shadows Darker shades of black That hide the drugged up mugger Who will stab you in the back. I'm not the type of angel Who fell from divine grace I'm the one who was so bad He never got there in the first place The vulture in the wings As the battle flags unfurl "Pleased to meet you, I'm the wickedest man in the world."
6. The One Piece Puzzle
Pick up the fragments and piece them together Tell me do you like what you've found? Are your thoughts like the earth spinning round? Existence is pure pantomime Why is life such a puzzle sometimes? Trapped in a world I no longer feel part of Each day is a thorn in my side Though I've carried my cross - worn my heart on my sleeve Still deep inside something has died. If men have a sell-by-date I've just reached mine Now we've come to the end of the line. Why is life such a puzzle sometimes? Well I just can't believe that it's happened again Always knew that it would - just a matter of when A lie was the last straw on this camels back And just like Lot's wife I could never look back. So maybe the reason I act so estranged Is you still dream of him, it's you that has changed. No method to madness - no reason to rhyme Now we've come to the end of the line. Why is life such a puzzle sometimes? Well I just can't believe that it's happened again Always knew that it would - just a matter of when A lie was the last straw on this camels back And just like Lot's wife I could never look back. So maybe the reason I act so estranged Is you still dream of him, it's you that has changed. If men have a sell-by-date I've just reached mine Now we've come to the end of the line. Why is life such a puzzle sometimes?
7. Still Spinning Shrapnel
All I hear are peace talks and battle cries. Everyone's losing - nobody's winning, So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning. Pictures of the crippled - wounded on the frontline Someone else's problem - you're sitting on a landmine. When will we see reason? Sometimes I think we'll never Learn that children have the right to laugh - and dying is forever All I hear are peace talks and battle cries. No time for laughter - we're too busy dying, In this 'Devil's Playground' - bullets are flying. There's another star in heaven - and footprints on the moon So ignore the reign of terror - the bloody red monsoon. Neighbour fighting neighbour - oh see how quick they run To tear down the white flag and pick up the gun. Peace talks and battle cries - apathy can kill Put a price on human life - pay 'the butcher's bill'. Everybody's losing - nobody's winning, Run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning. Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow - For a child in an unmarked grave. Take my hand in the hour of darkness - While there's someone left to save. But you can't hear me - all you can hear are... Peace talks and battle cries - apathy can kill, Put a price on human life - pay 'the butcher's bill'. No time for laughter - we're too busy dying, In this 'Devil's Playground' where bullets are flying. I think about the children who have no hopes or homes, Born into a battlfield - war's all they've ever known. Neighbour loving neighbour - will that day ever come When we shake hands in friendship and survey the damage done. All I hear are peace talks and battle cries. Everyone's losing - nobody's winning, So run for your lives when the shrapnel's spinning. Hear my prayer from the Valley of the Shadow - For a child in an unmarked grave. Take my hand in the hour of darkness - While there's someone left to save. Why won't you help me? Why can't you hear me?
8. Just What Nobody Wanted
Just what nobody wanted, I'm just what nobody wanted. I think that life has got it in for me, Can you please tell me who's to blame? For all the bills upon my mat - They breed and grow then eat the cat. Where they come from I don't know, I stare at them but they won't go! It seems that life's a big frustration, Why is everybody out to bring me down? There has to be a simple explanation, Why failure is the fashion every time I come to town. If life is sweet - then I'm diabetic The future looks rosy - I just went colourblind. This all seems to be some mass conspiracy, So I demand the right to know, If there's a God up there, how come he seems to care For every little bird and bee, but couldn't give a damn for me. It seems that life's a big frustration, Why is everybody out to bring me down? There has to be a simple explanation, Why failure is the fashion every time I come to town. If high hopes were bank notes, I'd own all of England And teardrops were diamonds, Then I'd be a millionaire. Just what nobody wanted, I'm just what nobody wanted. You say I'm purely being paranoid, I beg to differ - it's not true. Shit just seems to hit the fan, Every time I make a plan. Grand design to small detail, All I do is doomed to fail. It seems that life's a big frustration, Why is everybody out to bring me down? There has to be a simple explanation, Why failure is the fashion every time I come to town. If life is sweet - then I'm diabetic, The future looks rosy - I just went colourblind. I'm just what nobody wanted at all.
9. Sins of Emission
There's a beast in the cellar There since this building was made. He's lurked in the shadows From when its' foundations were laid. From my "double-helix" he taunts me His primal voice roars It mocks my humanity Turning the key in locked doors. Sins of emission - an animal trapped in a civilised mind Sins of emission - my formal facade for the deaf, dumb and blind. Sins of emission - spilling my seed now the harvest is sown Sins of emission - come feast on a banquet of blood, flesh and bone. Though we try to deny This primordial drive in us all We will cease to exist When we no longer heed nature's call. I'm a puppet of lust and my instincts are pulling the strings No, love's not an angel - it's merely a monkey with wings. Sins of emission - enticing and thrilling Sins of emission - the flesh is so willing Sins of emission - down under my skin Sins of emission - we're all "in like Flynn." Temptation's the one thing we'll never resist It flirts like a maiden that yearns to be kissed Is throwing the cradle to hells raging fires More sinful than nursing unacted desires? Hold tightly the reins Of your bestial instinct to breed He's an unwelcome guest In the "house-trained" existence you lead How long can you muzzle this wild brute creation of yours? You can't quarantine the primeval with walls, bars and doors. Sins of emission - an animal trapped in a civilised mind Sins of emission - my formal facade for the deaf, dumb and blind. Sins of emission - spilling my seed now the harvest is sown Sins of emission - come feast on a banquet of blood, flesh and bone.
10. Land of the Rising Slum
Show me a politician who's a man we can trust And if I ever meet him then I think I'll have him stuffed Look out of the window - see not one happy face The only splash of colour's the graffiti 'round the place. It's hard to even crawl With your back up against the wall. I find it hard to sleep at night I feel that the worst is yet to come Social helter-skelter Ride the downward spiral has begun. Are some people just born bad Or is it how we all become? Human termites driven mad In the concrete mound of the rising slum. The people who are dark fear the people who are fair And hippies live in terror of the guys who have no hair The saddest thing of all - what I really find grim Is we haven't yet noticed what a mess we're all in. It's hard to even crawl Now your back's up against the wall. I find it hard to sleep at night I feel that the worst is yet to come Social helter-skelter Ride the downward spiral has begun. Are some people just born bad Or is it how we all become? Human termites driven mad In the concrete mound of the rising slum. The "whether man" says that the outlook's not great A few outbreaks of murder with some isolated rape I ask my doctor his advice, this is what he says, "Get yourself some cancer boy, before you die of aids." It's hard to even crawl With your back up against the wall. I find it hard to sleep at night I feel that the worst is yet to come Social helter-skelter Ride the downward spiral has begun. Are some people just born bad Or is it how we all become? Human termites driven mad In the concrete mound of the rising slum.
11. Alone in Death's Shadow
Carnal gladiators lie restless awaiting the dawn Slaves to their passion - so eager its will to perform They wrestle the "Double Backed Beast" face their foe hand to hand The arena was life but alone in deaths shadow they stand. You brand the social leper - then spare no second thought Too scared to give this kiss of life - "Come rise my son and walk." On these streets of damnation the destitute huddle once more Can we pass them by just like all who have been there before? Are you so cold and heartless you can feel no shame That we allow a human life to become a death in vein. A fear that's bred of ignorance perpetuates the lie Well there but for the mercy and the grace of God go I. Prisoners in a sterile vacuum - hearts that feel but dare not touch The freak show in this callous circus - on parade so all may look Those who gaze upon the outcasts to taste how bitter life can be Can't comprehend the pain you feel - their blinkered eyes will never see.
12. Spinning Jenny
She came down from the Western Hills when we were not prepared I turned deaf ears to words of warning now I'm running scared. Casting caution to the wind now that the cat's away I say my grace - fill my face (then for forgiveness pray). God knows I was an honest man - the same as any other Who loved his wife - worked all his life to keep his family Until the 'beast' that never sleeps beneath my silken covers Reared its head and bit its thumb at my morality. [Chorus:] Her passion for passion - it will devour Cruel are the thorns of this delicate flower Her lust for lust - it will consume A siren song summons all men to their doom. She whispered of her innocence - (a plea I must contest) While baptising helpless sinners with a missionary zest She will exorcise your demons - then exercise your thighs Await your 'second-coming' with a hunger in her eyes. Her sweetmeats are the souls of men - she'll gorge herself to bursting And for yours her heart is thirsting - as a spider craves a fly No mortal man could ever hope to suit her as a suitor She'll rewrite the Kama Sutra if you'd care to watch her try. [Repeat Chorus] I reach for heaven - desire drags me down When fools choose their king I'll be heir to that crown A strange kind of madness I cannot condone If you are without sin come cast the first stone.
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