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DEVIATED INSTINCT LYRICS
"Rock N' Roll Conformity" (1988)
1. Pearls before swine
2. Laugh in your face
3. Conquest for Eternity
4. House of cards
5. Putrid scum
6. Through the looking glass
7. Time and tide
8. When the chapter closes
9. Return of frost
10. Mechanical extinction
11. Rock`n`roll conformity / Doomsday
1. Pearls before swine
And the hatchet men
Wrapped in unskilled grace
In all their wisdom
Did mock and condemn
Judge and patronise
In all their idol stupidity
They decree judgement
Self-acclaimed witch-hunters
The parasites that ridicule the host
So open-minded they spit slander
So sound in ideals; back biters
When the half-truths run dry
lies in torrents will follow
No one said it would be easy
How long before the rope breaks
Years of labour undone in an instant
And sitting in splendour are those you adore
You so adore
But when they fall from grace
It's a pit of wolves out there
An itch that won't scratch
You're tearing apart
The very banner you claim to hold so high
Are you simply so ignorant
Or just too important to try
Or are you just jealous
This your only means of attention
And you mock the stage
As you dance to the tune
And our justification
Is like casting pearls before swine
2. Laugh in your face
As tears stream down your face
Do you think that I really care
Crocodile tears fall in rivers of deceit for the last time
The last time
Your blackmailing cold eyes
Reflect a weakness I cannot show
This time you took it too far
And now
Now I'm wise
Self-pity, it's all too much
A fool to yourself
Laugh
Laugh in your face
Emotional blackmail: when can it end
So do what you must, snivelling wretch
Such a blemish on your character
You build on your insecurity
Your life's an open book
The page's speckled, wasted tears shed
So read deeper, close it tight
You can kill yourself once too often
Or drown in tears of self-pity
In me you stir no emotion
Just an unwitting jester
Your look of innocence
Affection-winning ploy
Never so humble
To pity your circus of fools
Crying, wanton desire
Greedy self-indulgence
A dreamland of glory
You would claim your inheritance
Watching your world collapse
Satisfying chills run down my spine
It's crumbling down at your feet
The last laugh...is on you
3. Conquest for Eternity
Striving for solitude where no eyes can see
Gaze into the void
Let my mind wander free
But out in the endless black hole
A thousand eyes blink in silent observation
Throwing a spinal shiver through a beaten hide
My moment is nothing to the mocking dark
Rats jumping ship - Flaming to the heavens
One more quest - The claw craves for more
A barren waste - Skeletal shell remains
Of one more empire - Been bled dry
Thunder soaring skywards
Plague ship searching
Pity those untouched
Of what they do not fear
And where will it end as they purge the abyss
Early sunset, the sky weaps red
The sly grin of science screams for infinity
Echoed through a thousand metallic stars
Night draws in
Black meets black
A silence so sombre that in a single breath
Could turn to madness...madness
Exploration into insanity
Search and they will find
Search and they will conquer
Search and they will destroy
4. House of cards
The old light of dawn
All is still
The shadows retreat
Anger has passed
Eyes still weary
Sanity prevails
Coming 'round but not to your way of thought
Your ivory tower pierced those high & mighty clouds
A closed circle of friends
With the grip of impotent weaklings
So alone in your farce of brotherhood
The house of cards crumbles
Indifference
A life long friend
A warmth of unique comfort
As the cards fall and attitudes change
Only time can tell
And it will
It will
Now so still
This river of life
The rapids passed
But never the last
Mere ripples on the apathy you kindled
The river's strength lies far from the banks
Perfection is for dreamers
The self-righteous fools
And when their dream dies
What then will they have?
A hand that claws the air
And a heart filled with misery
Your forethought
Life mapped out
I've no time for your ambitious career
As rays of sunlight awaken the sleeper
The light breaks through, eyes open with a start
Only the sands of time know the morrow
The past is passed, and my eyes see the dawn that is new
5. Putrid scum
Nazi marching ever backward
Towards the death of free-thinking
Ignorance reigns in your kingdom of pawns
Unwary tools in tyrants hands
Cannon fodder
Mere instruments
You channel mindless hatred
Now so distant in time
See the flesh pits
Deep trenches
Racial genocide
Hate based on colour or creed
Your minds bleed from every orifice
You're sickening scum
Oppressive stench
We'll give you a taste of your own medicine
Master-race control: Never!
Die!
Die!
6. Through the looking glass
I was gazing deep into past shallows
You reached out
Now I can see
For so many moons I was held in a trance
Pulled trough
You showed me things in a brand new light
Selfish desire
But I was always the pupil
Bite the hand that feeds
For blood will pulp the self-importance
It's just a vision from the past
With each twist and turn of the journey
Yesterday would await
Our stubborn pride to walk alone
Is never ending spirals
And regret can be all too real
But what's done is done
And I turn my back on despair
Today my life begins
Now I'm diving into a reality of make-believe
A fantasy of a dreamer's passion fulfilled
Reflection cracked by will
You gave the push that was needed
Splintered glass, this Bedlam shattered
Shards of yesterday like rain on stone washed away
Through the looking glass, faster I fall
But my greed might just throw me back
Absurd desire won't strangle this
For this is what is meant to be
Now on reflections I look back
And I remember
I was
I was gazing deep into past shallows
You reached out
Now I can see
You possess all that I need
You are all that I need
7. Time and tide
Waves crash in endless pounding
Upon shores now long deaf
They yearn again the call to the sea
The one gentle stirring now fevered dance
Once more the tide is turning
All this time staying close to the shore
All these years staying safe from the current
Gathering clan as driftwood washed ashore
Of past trend left by the tide
Over this countless drift we trod
Now we're thrust out to sea by trend
But the tide is turning
Sailing into a void of misunderstanding
Picked up on a storm of perversion
On seas of travesty
Hopelessly adrift
Mere passengers on a vessel we once sailed
A rose without thorns
Pilgrimage across the ocean
Yet this driftwood never left the shore
To emulate another culture
This farce will run aground
Ridiculed we one sailed by the tempest
Now praised
Hurled onto pedestals
How long can it last
It will come to an end
It's true that time and tide for no man waits
And what will the next tide bring
8. When the chapter closes
Possess no mind any longer
An extension of her's
Puppet dancing for your master
A life long dead, controlled and captured
And you would sink so low to spurn your brothers
A reborn existence
A simple farce
Recalling little of the past
Bewitched fervour
A loyal dog
Leaving the heard to join the flock
A simple character in such a parody if a sentiment
With such majesty
Thoughts so tender that worship another
One-way folly as she calls the tune
And the prologue read "You shall obey"
To serve until your chapter closes
And like a leech she'll suck you dry
And laugh as you plead "Why"
The author takes another walk across the water
And you content to drown beneath her
Give and take or lay down and bleed
This book of conquest
Your page is numbered
Then to earth falling with a crash
A broken shell but a lesson learnt
'Cos your prologue read "You shall obey"
To serve until your chapter closes
9. Return of frost
10. Mechanical extinction
11. Rock`n`roll conformity / Doomsday
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