Midas Touch - Presage Of Disaster lyrics
Tracks 01. The Arrival
02. Forcibly Incarcerated 03. Sinking Censorship 04. When The Boot Comes Down 05. True Believers Inc. 06. Reminiscence 07. Sepulchral Epitaph 08. Lost Paradise 09. Accessory Before The Fact 10. Aceldama - Terminal Breath 11. Subhumanity (A New Cycle) 01. The Arrival
[Instrumental]
02. Forcibly Incarcerated
Staring at the ceiling
White is all I see They’re trying to tell me how to think What have they done to me Certified: Lunatic! Wrongfully institutionalized Behavioral instability Electrical therapy Here I lie Strapped in bed They plant their thoughts Inside my head Forcibly incarcerated Just’ cause they misunderstood I tell myself they can’t be right Life without a meaning Is all they’ve left for me A murky picture of the world And only memories The thoughts I had Beliefs I held Mean nothing now to me Forcibly incarcerated Just’ cause they misunderstood I question how could they be right? Pumping stuff into my veins To make me lose my will Doctors put my mind to sleep They want me to forget Kept within these padded walls I pray to be set free I may have to wait for death Before I am released Behavioral instability Electrical therapy Turmoils rage Inside my head What should I feel For what I did? Forcibly incarcerated Just’ cause they misunderstood I wonder are they really right? 03. Sinking Censorship
We are so many and you are so few
You’re supposed to have the brains How can that be true Isn’t it sad, it’s too bad Why were we ever born We’re such a thorn in your side You really wouldn’t like us to do The things you’re doing to us to you It’s time for you to open up Open up your eyes Who are you to tell us how to think Just butt out! Sounds like you need A shrink Open your eyes and see We are a different kind With a different taste But every time I find Talking to you Is just such a waste We’re gonna make you disappear Cause we don’t want you here Yeah, we sure got the cure Who are you to tell us how to think Don’t talk shit! You’re really on The brink Sink! You were born to be totally Shocked by the norm Your obsession with morality Blinds you reality This is fuckin’ real! If you let your own subconscious Desires out people would say You were sick! We’re bored with your shit You’re the one that doesn’t fit What gives you the right to say What is the right way, anyway? Has it dawned on you That your attempts at restriction Have no fuckin’ place In a democracy You make us seek things out Just’ cause you say they’re taboo Well, we sure got the cure People see how dumb you are Freedom of choice will win this war Who are you to tell us how to think Your ideals and real life have no link Oh, so you don’t like this? Well the Choice is yours… Why don’t you just Turn it off? Let’s sink, let’s sink, let’s sink The censorship! 04. When The Boot Comes Down
A boot at the door in the dead of the night
Echoes terror far and wide Tonight how township’s rules are white None of them resists arrest Screams of pain fill the air You must submit you have no rights You can’t fight the law With your back to the wall Don’t it make you feel small In the system; no escape Random choice, interrogate From confusion anger grows And the fear of what’s to come You can’t stop the hammer coming down You can’t fight the law With your back to the wall Don’t it make you feel small Wake up! It’s time for pain Confess! Tell us their names Resist And you’ll make it worse No use … Now comes the moment You have been waiting for, you kiss the boot And say out last good-bye! The eyes of the oppressed are Filled with hatred and with fear Signalling the closeness of a war To be declared Forced into resisting in a world of lunacy Where if you’re black you’re subjugated If you’re white you’re free There will be bloodshed, suffering for everyone The fight for democracy has just begun The day of the last straw is coming Then they will react Their freedom has been taken and Their pride has been attacked A man will sacrifice his all when Fighting to be free They’re prepared to die in the Pursuit of liberty No hollow speech can quell the Wrath of the oppressed Seeing these injustices the world Will join our guest You can fight the law Though your back’s to the wall Seeking justice for all When the boot comes down 05. True Believers Inc.
You call yourself a true believer
Say you’ve seen the holy light Damn non-christian music “Evil” “…messengers of satans might!” Say you’ve read the holy bible Tell us “live by it – it’s true” But you only ever quote The parts that are most use to you True believers Incorporated True believers Believing in the second coming At the end of world war three An evangelist in the white house Would maybe make it be Jerry, Jimmy, Jim and Pat And oral are the word of god! Incorporated True believers True believers you’d better believe it True believers they are here True believers god is their business True believers you’d better beware What do I have to pay To get healed today If I have no money You tell me – go and pray If I am a sinner and in the evil realm I dwell I can pay for forgiveness Instead of burn in hell True believers Incorporated True believers True believers you’d better believe it True believers they are here True believers god is their business True believers you’d better beware 06. Reminiscence
Once upon a dreadful time
07. Sepulchral Epitaph
The governments conspired
Publicly warmongering While walking together hand in hand Committing an outrage Against the human right Putting strangers face to face To fight each other Without knowing why Killing each other Expendable pawns in the political game We have reached, cul-de-sac This is it, no way back Manipulating your mind They say go and you go They say kill and kill you will You’re fighting a pointless battle Addicted to slaughter How the fuck can they class you as expendable Wake up from your exploitation Wake up from decades of deception We have reached, cul-de-sac This is it, no way back Time ticks by much faster A presage of disaster The lies they tell In their destructive propaganda Spreads the virus of prejudice and keeps control over you Believing it all in the line of duty You fight and fall like a fool In the line of duty No use pretending Time is running short Watch the world behave insanely Memento mori Political insanity Is leading us towards An apocalyptic ending Annihilation is assured We have reached, cul-de-sac This is it, no way back We have reached, cul-de-sac Sepulchral Epitaph 08. Lost Paradise
[Instrumental]
09. Accessory Before The Fact
You’ve built your opinions on very thin ice
You’ve given your faith for a pack of lies You only see what you want to see Your cardinal sin-hypocrisy You say! Your country’s for your countrymen Destroy! You cry if foreigners don’t understand You’re an accessory You’re an accessory Before the fact You say – USA for USA And that’s the way – it’s gotta stay – Come what may… You’ve always ignored reality You close your door as firmly as your mind The things that you don’t care to know Will bring about your ignorant demise It’s closer than you think – one day You’ll find yourself in the midst of Armageddon! Armageddon! Too late! Self-reproach won’t help you learn Your fate! It’s sealed-now it’s your turn You’re an accessory You’re an accessory Before the fact Is your brain on vacation or has it left you For good? Why do you say the things you say- You said you understood You say! Your country’s for your countrymen Destroy! You cry if foreigners don’t understand You’re a bigot, no remorse A dumb machine-“Up the Cause!” So caught up in pettiness You’ll miss the signs of total loss We are all aware of international tension And in supposed fear of supposed enemies Why do you refuse the opportunity to advance culturally By adhering to such an inadequate and irrelevant philosophy? Too late! Self-reproach won’t help you learn Your fate! It’s sealed-now it’s your turn World War One Vietnam, Afghanistan World War Two Iran-Iraq, Arab-Israel World War Three Yes, it could be You say! Your country’s for your countrymen You’ll die! Ignorant of the worldwide scheme 10. Aceldama - Terminal Breath
What happened to peace? Hell’s released
Plutonic rage, the terminage Reign of terror, age of terror You’re alone Panic! Grief! Family-all your friends, All you knew, vaporized! radiation! Must be everywhere… I feel OK So far… Bodies everywhere, you scream but only Silence answers… not a sound Try to tell yourself it’s not real, They wouldn’t... couldn’t… could they? Blinded by despair, where can you find Shelter from the acid rain? You didn’t care about the arms race Or whether the superpowers would step Into any of the current disputes You only watched sport on your TV Never news! Being kept by the government you only Cared about where your next beer was Coming from Suddenly you’re sick! You can’t digest Or overcome this lethargy Suppurating sores spread painfully, There’s more of them daily No medicine now – you’ll heal or die From radiation sickness As death draws near Confront your fear Anytime Could be your terminal breath As death draws near Confront your fear Anytime Could be your terminal breath Losing your mind You see things in a new way Losing your grip Your reason is carried away Emerging from malaise, you came So close to death, to the universe Images remain from another life Another time Movement in the rocks! I’m not Alone-or just imagination! 11. Subhumanity (A New Cycle)
From the arctic wastes
Emerges a new race A strange creature Only hunger in its face Parasite, carnivore A new kind of being Devoid of intellect Or emotional reaction Evolution is at a standstill As rapacious beasts regain Dominion over the earth Their primary quest is for survival Living and dying solely by instinct As they fight starvation In the devastated world we left to them Perhaps evolution would ultimately Have produced these malicious And carnal creatures even in The absence of the apocalypse For whether deliberately or Unwittingly, whether or not They foolishly elected to use Their nuclear deterrent, this was The destiny mankind had chosen Subhumanity |