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01. The Death & Resurrection Show

Mark out the points
Build the pyre
Assemble different drummers
Light up the fire
Put on your masks
And animal skins
Illumination, illumination
Listen to the drums
Between each beat, each beat of the drum

O beloved mother of liberty
Hold me in your arms

Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat

And the day will come
Before the lights go out
Who will you turn to
Who will you turn to
Choose the crucifixion
Or Osiris slain
Recurring themes, time again.

Illumination, illumination
Burn burn, burn white heat

Oh how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekielâ??s chariots streak across the skies
Holy books and history texts forget
Because we know
Souls are recycled in the death and
Resurrection show

O beloved mother of liberty
Come to me

Everything Iâ??m taught, amounts to nought
Everything I learn, the fire shall burn
Notions of myself that when Iâ??m not
Whoever I was is now lost

Illumination, illumination
Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat
Oh how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekielâ??s chariots streak across the skies
Holy books and history texts forget
Because we know
Souls are recycled in the death and
Resurrection show

O beloved mother of liberty
Come to me

Burn away all my impurities
Hold me in your arms

Burn burn, burn brightly
Burn burn, burn white heat

02. Total Invasion

Just enough water to ensurface the world
Oil baron running the government
So I'll start a war

All votes invalid
Use any old lie
Gonna carve up your wealth,like pumpkin pie
Only fools won't realise and won't be told that empires run on the old black gold

It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
It's a total invasion!

Terrify them
Complete submission
This is our goal,this is our mission
Destroy your customs
You'll have no say
We'll clothe your women in the western way

I's a fucking crusade
A lesson trade
So all you intellectuals
We're gonna invade

The final push
The last battle
Even restored?
Man is cattle
We want your oil
We want your land
We'll take your welth
You'll have much less
We'll change your God to the Bitch Godess

03. Asteroid

And the 3rd Angel sounded
And a star fell from heaven
Burning as it were a lamp
And it fell upon the 3rd part of the waters

Asteroid

I'm a ball of fire
Fire from heaven
Terror from nowhere
You'll never shoot me down
Days turns to minutes
5 seconds till it hits us
3 seconds to ground
1 second to ?.

Asteroid
Coming in from the void

On the bed of the ocean
Where history lies
Strange civilisations
Vapourised
Days turns to minutes
5 seconds till it hits us
3 seconds to ground
1 second to ?.

Asteroid

I.N.R.I
Nature renewed by fire made whole

And I climb to the mountain
Light to dark
Behind time and space
A hole in your Ark
Days turns to minutes
5 seconds till it hits us
3 seconds to ground
1 second to ?.

Asteroid

04. Implant

Music by Coleman/Walker/Glover/Gill
Lyrics by Jaz Coleman
Silent weapons for a quiet war

Under my skin, getting under my skin
All systems go
Security clause, passing of laws
Reality
Silence in the air, silence in the air
Acceptance
Information from birth, animals are first
Then man
Silent weapons for a quiet war

ID
Not free
For me
You can't
Escape
Implant

Implant to the next step
You don't want to protect
You just want to fucking control

Know my DNA, know my DNA, my structure
Know the movements of my day, know the movements of my day and haunts
Hypnotise, hypnotise, acclimatise
Fingers in control, finger in control

Silent weapons for a quiet war

ID
Not free
For me
You can't
Escape
Implant

Deep below the ground
Deep below the ground
Blasphemies
Deep below the ground
Deep below the ground
Hybrids
Hypnotise
Acclimatise

05. Blood On Your Hands

Music by Coleman/Walker/Glover/Gill
Lyrics by Jaz Coleman
When the summer fails us
And the rains it rains so hard on

When the rivers overflow
And a wave runs over Prague

Poison the waters so that only G. M crops grow

CHORUS:
Five corporations
Earn more than forty six Nations
You've got blood on your hands (2x)
Corruption at the highest level
Man made hell and a
Man made devil
You've got blood on your hands (2x)

Behind a coat of arms and
gilded lies - know
The crown prepare the sacrifice
And she prepares to die on
Radiant and beautiful
She's taken in her prime
Oh executioner atone for
All your crimes now

Send horror through your soul
And when it happens then
You'll know
It sends horror through your soul
And when it happens
Then you'll know

CHORUS

Rulers seek fossil fuel
As the poor still eat their stools
And watch the thunderflash
Unleashed for oil and gas
Send horror through your soul
And when it happens then
You'll know
It sends horror through your soul
And when it happens
Then you'll know

CHORUS

Jacques De Molay
Turns in his grave
As Cecil Rhodes
Rides out again
You've got blood on your hands

06. Loose Cannon

Music by Coleman/Walker/Glover/Gill
Lyrics by Jaz Coleman
This is the way
Reprogrammed
This is the way
Unload
This is the way
Play my drum
This is the stick
Download
This is the day

Tale orders
This is the lie
Don't comply
This is the end of nations boarders
These are the fears I'm trying to hide

I'm a loose cannon

This is the day the sky turned green
This is the day I saw in my dream
These are the tears I'm trying to hide
These are the tears trapped inside
I'm an urban animal
Still a primitive man
I'm an urban animal
One step from a cannibal

I'm a loose cannon

Bang

I'm an urban animal
One step from a cannibal (2x)

Some conspiracy theorists say great dangers awaits those who get to close to the truth about the secret rulers of the world.

I'm a loose cannon

Bang

07. You'll Never Get To Me

Sea of hurt, I feel the waves of pain
And now the tide comes in again
Caught in a vicious cycle of despair
Give me the strength to face another day

Oh, sing a song of joy
Sweet childhood, never desert me
Time for celebration, oh!
Overcome with a sense of elation
I'll never let you get to me
Survival is my victory

I sighed and sighed as I was mourning
I said sorry a thousand times
I cried aloud to God for all my failings
But God seemed deaf as well as blind

Oh, sing a song of joy
Sweet childhood, never desert me
Time for celebration, oh!
Overcome with a sense of elation
I'll never let you get to me
Survival is my victory

We drank and smoked and talked until the dawn
We shared our problems and our food
Telling tales of courage and resolution
Through all the hardships we'd endured

Oh, sing a song of joy
Sweet childhood, never desert me
Time for celebration, oh!
Overcome with a sense of elation
I'll never let you get to me
Survival is my victory

08. Seeing Red

Music by Coleman/Walker/Glover/Gill
Lyrics by Jaz Coleman
They're dropping bombs again
And they're doing it in your name
All the rational commentaries in the papers
That I read
Marmalade and buttered toast
And smell of sunday roast
Kiss the arse of Uncle Sam
Oh to be an Englishman

CHORUS:
When you hear the sound of warning
When the only colour is red
Red sky in the morning
Everywhere I'm seeing red

Dawn brings a day of hell hours that we pawn and sell
A single magpie in the tree
One for sorrow, one for me
Kick it off the cliff I said
Now the line fucks up my head
Too late to change this mode
Break all my moral codes

CHORUS

Running from myself again
And all I feel is shame
It doesn't matter where I go
Everywhere still looks the same
This sense of emptiness
As we create this mess
Self-destructive tendencies
Are what you mean to me

CHORUS

09. Dark Forces

Music by Coleman/Walker/Glover/Gill
Lyrics by Jaz Coleman
You'll need holy water
And a little bit of knowledge
Invocation
To your Holy Guardian
Angel
The great evil around

God gave dominion
Over fowls of the air
And the fish of the sea
Justification
Of desecration
Who wrote this madness?

CHORUS:
GET UP! WAKE UP!
Someone's taking you for a ride
GET UP! WAKE UP!
Dark forces

They're printing up money that doesn't exist
Then watch the wealthy as they cash their chips
The economy's failed start a war machine
Devoid of moral cause
As we witness the end
Of international law

CHORUS

All the banking houses
That buy and sell
(they'd sell their own mother)
Just eat shit and die like everyone else

CHORUS

10. The House That Pain Built

Music by Coleman/Walker/Glover/Gill
Lyrics by Jaz Coleman
My faith my love
But howl howl howl the pain
My faith and my blood
Oh why why wild insane
My faith my people
We'll howl howl howl the pain
My faith my freedom
I'll never let it go again

Not anymore I must let go
And when I finally reach the point of no return
I must let go because I know
I'm manic I'm manic so...

CHORUS:
And when you need catharsis
(yes)
Because it's how you're made you know
(yes)
And when you need absolving
(yes)
Don't ask how
But come in to my
House of pain

My faith and my love
But howl howl howl the pain
My faith yes my will
Oh see my through this pain
My faith in my blood
And walk right through this pain
My faith no reason
I'll never be the same

Not anymore I must let go
And when I finally reach the point of no return
I must let go because I know
I'm manic I'm manic so...

CHORUS

My faith and my love
We'll howl howl howl the pain
My faith and my freedom
I'll never let it go again

Not anymore I must let go
And when I finally reach the point of no return
I must let go because I know
I'm manic I'm manic so...

CHORUS(2x)