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SKYCLAD LYRICS
"Thinking Allowed?" (1993 EP)
1. Thinking Allowed
2. The Cradle Will Fall (Live)
3. The Widdershins Jig (Live)
1. Thinking Allowed
My mind was a timebomb
That was set to explode
So I packed up my cares
Into the sunset I rode
A path to hell that's paved
With good intentions.
Well I guess you and I
Will never see eye to eye
But if there's one thing I'll be
Glad to know when I die
It's that I never entertained your
'Can't Conventions.'
Two men gaze from behind
Their prison bars
One man sees dirt
The other sees stars
I'm just thinking aloud
Isn't thinking allowed?
Just let your mind wander
It may never come back
Set off on a new train of thought
On life's track.
I'm just thinking aloud
Isn't thinking allowed?
Why is nobody thinking?
How can you call me a failure
Or a social defective
When to find your own mind
You'd need a private detective?
I'm not a statistic or
A regular family man.
I don't give a damn about public relations
I'll never live up to
Your great expectations
You can take or leave me
Just the way I am.
Your straight jacket emotions
Only stifle and kill
The spirit within us all
I call free will.
I'm just thinking aloud
Isn't thinking allowed?
Two men gaze from behind
Their prison bars
One man sees dirt
The other sees stars.
I'm just thinking aloud
Isn't thinking allowed?
2. The Cradle Will Fall (Live)
A species in its infancy--a living idiosyncrasy, This 'naked ape' believes itself divine. Assured of its supremacy--it dreams of immortality, The first words that it speaks--"This world is mine." But the time has come for us to realise, That the animal instincts we deeply despise-- Are far more civilised than humanity. Mankind has lived to curse the day it climbed down from the trees, But still we keep our heads held high whilst crawling on our knees. I hope I never live to see the 'perfect' world you crave, Where ambition is the burden we shall carry to our graves. We think that we are so superior--for in God's image we were made, All other life we deem inferior--there to exploit, kill or enslave No amount of remonstration could ever show a mind so small that it is not 'the be and end all.' Into the future we race driven on by our greed, Like rats in a maze we will never be free. Science is the 'new-religion'--scaples slash dissecting truth and reason, Behind locked doors where no-one sees. Down evolution's one way street mankind pursues his dream, Of a race conceived in test tubes with the same designer genes, But like a child who tries to run before it learns to crawl-- he'll go crying to his 'Mother' when he sees the cradle fall. I am human--I was made to be the ultimate machine, With the power at my fingertips to realise my dream. Homo-sapiens--the 'master-race,' Nature's pride and joy, Taking all the world will give me--what it won't I shall destroy. In our hearts we yearn to be immortal--conquer all sickness and disease, Create a world where even death's not fatal--then we can shape our destinies. A populace of plastic people live genetically pre-programmed lives--and no-one laughs and no-one cries. Blinded by science the masses are duped and deceived, By the faces that smile from their colour T.V.s. They'll steal your dreams--remove them surgically (but leave you scars so deep and lasting), God is dead man has surpassed him. Like children in our playground--we contrive such foolish games, But fail to see the consequence of suicidal aims. No matter how we bend the rules there's no way we can win, Not even pleading Ignorance will vindicate our sins. I am human--I was made to be the ultimate machine, With the power at my fingertips to realise my dream. Homo-sapiens--the 'master-race,' Nature's pride and joy, Taking all the world will give me--what it won't I shall destroy. Mankind a babe-in-arms, Believes he's come of age-- And reaches for the stars, With one foot in the grave. I am human--I was made to be the ultimate machine, I am human--I have the power to realise my dream. I am human--an automaton--a mindless 'technoslave,' I am human--I am servant to the monsters I have made.
3. The Widdershins Jig (Live)
A wise man's son and Wednesday's child in each other found a friend, And searched together for the treasure hiding at the rainbow's end. To wise man's son and Wednesday's child all is white that is not black, They dance in symbiotic deadlock--one step forward two steps back, Playing karmic snakes and ladders (all your sins will find you out), When all your gains are lost in vain on cosmic wings and roundabouts. At the roadside manhood's flower--blighted by a wayward youth, Has cast its seed on well-worn pathways--borne on winds of whispered truth. We march to drums of our own choosing--each of them keeps different time, As you are free to live your own life so I am free to live mine. Now wise man's son and Wednesday's child can recognise their own mistakes, And to these ends they make amends for every promise that they break. Both wise man's son and Wednesday's child view the world in red and green, Await the day when they die laughing--thinking of the sights they've seen. I tell you now if they were given chance to live their lives again-- Wise man's son and Wednesday's child would make the same mistakes as then. At the roadside manhood's flower--blighted by a wayward youth, Has cast its seed on well-worn pathways--borne on winds of whispered truth. We march to drums of our own choosing--each of them keeps different time, As you are free to live your own life so I am free to live mine.
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