Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime lyrics
Tracks 01. I Remember Now
02. Anarchy-X 03. Revolution Calling 04. Operation: Mindcrime 05. Speak 06. Spreading The Disease 07. Mission 08. Suite Sister Mary 09. Needle Lies 10. Electric Requiem 11. Breaking The Silence 12. I Don't Believe In Love 13. Waiting For 22 14. My Empty Room 15. Eyes Of A Stranger 01. I Remember Now
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02. Anarchy-X
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03. Revolution Calling
For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger For that I'd need a pretty good cause Then I heard of Dr. X The man with the cure Just watch the television Yeah, you'll see there's something going on Got no love for politicians Or that crazy scene in D.C. It's just a power mad town But the time is ripe for changes There's a growing feeling That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due I used to trust the media To tell me the truth, tell us the truth But now I've seen the payoffs Everywhere I look Who do you trust when everyone's a crook? Revolution calling Revolution calling Revolution calling you (There's a) Revolution calling Revolution calling Gotta make a change Gotta push, gotta push it on through I'm tired of all this bullshit They keep selling me on T.V. About the communist plan And all the shady preachers Begging for my cash Swiss bank accounts while giving their Secretaries the slam They're all in Penthouse now Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell I guess Warhol wasn't wrong Fame fifteen minutes long Everyone's using everybody, making the sale I used to think That only America's way, way was right But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies Revolution calling Revolution calling Revolution calling you (There's a) Revolution calling Revolution calling Gotta make a change Gotta push, gotta push it on through I used to trust the media To tell me the truth, tell us the truth But now I've seen the payoffs Everywhere I look Who do you trust when everyone's a crook? Revolution calling Revolution calling Revolution calling you (There's a) Revolution calling Revolution calling Gotta make a change Gotta push, gotta push it on through 04. Operation: Mindcrime
It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain Gotta make something of your life boy Give me one more vein You've come to see the doctor Cause I'll show you the cure I'm gonna take away the questions Yeah I'm gonna make you sure A hit man for the order When you couldn't go to school Had a skin job for a hair-do Yeah you looked pretty cool Had a habit doing mainline Watch the dragon burn No regrets, you've got no goals Nothing more to learn Now I know you won't refuse Because we've got so much to do And you've got nothing more to lose So take this number and welcome to Operation : Mindcrime We're an underground revolution Working overtime Operation : Mindcrime There's a job for you in The system boy, with nothing to sign Hey Nikki you know everything That there is to do Here's a gun take it home Wait by the phone We'll send someone over To bring you what you need You're a one man death machine Make this city bleed Now I know you won't refuse Because we've got so much to do And you've got nothing more to lose So take this number and welcome to Operation : Mindcrime We're an underground revolution Working overtime Operation : Mindcrime There's a job for you in The system boy, with nothing to sign Operation : Mindcrime We're an underground revolution Working overtime Operation : Mindcrime If you come to see the doctor Yeah he'll give you the cure Operation : Mindcrime Make something of your life boy Let me into your mind Operation : Mindcrime There's a job for you in the system boy With nothing to sign 05. Speak
They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet I'm bent on submission Religion is to blame I'm the new messiah Death Angel with a gun Dangerous in my silence Deadly to my cause Speak to me the pain you feel Speak the word The word is all of us I've given my life to become what I am To preach the new beginning To make you understand To reach some point of order Utopia in mind, you've got to learn To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind Speak to me the pain you feel Speak the word The word is all of us Speak the word The word is all of us Seven years of power The corporation claw The rich control the government, the media the law To make some kind of difference Then everyone must know Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow The system we learn says we're equal under law But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown Educate the masses, We'll burn the White House down Speak to me the pain you feel Speak to me the pain you feel Speak the word (Revolution) The word is all of us Speak the word (Revolution) The word is all of us Speak the word The word is all of us Speak the Word The word is all of us SPEAK!!! 06. Spreading The Disease
She always brings me what I need
Without I beg and sweat and bleed When we're alone at night Waiting for the call She feeds my skin Sixteen and on the run from home Found a job in Times Square Working Live S&M shows Twenty-five bucks (a fuck) And John's a happy man She wipes the filth away And it's back on the streets again Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see Father William saved her from the streets She drank the lifeblood from the saviour's feet She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice He takes her once a week On the alter like a sacrifice Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see Religion and sex are powerplays Manipulate the people for the money they pay Selling skin, selling God The numbers look the same on their credit cards Politicians say no to drugs While we pay for wars in South America Fighting fire with empty words While the banks get fat And the poor stay poor And the rich get rich And the cops get paid To look away As the one percent rules America Spreading the disease Everybody needs But no one wants to see The way society Keeps spreading the disease 07. Mission
In the wooden chair
Beside my window I wear a face born in the falling rain I talk to shadows from a lonely candle Recite the phrases from the wall I can't explain this Holy pain Six days ago my life had taken a tumble The orders came from high above they say A need to use me once again they've got my number Further the cause boy yes you know the game I'll wait here for days longer Till the sister comes to wash my sins away She is the lady that can ease my sorrow She brings the only friend That helps me find my way I search the past back to a time When I was younger A target for the new society Picked to displace the leaders Countering objectives Of this new underground reality Waiting for days longer 'til sister comes to wash my sins away She is the lady that can ease my sorrow My love for her Will help me find my way My mission saved the world And I stood proud My mission changed the world It turned my life around I look around my room is filled with candles Each one a story but they end the same I'll hide away in here the law will never find me The walls will tell the story of my pain Waiting for days longer Till sister comes to wash my sins away She is the lady who can ease my sorrow She sets the pace for my delivery of pain They'll say my mission saved the world And I stood proud My mission changed the world The underground will rise and Save this world we'll all stand proud Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world We'll all stand proud 08. Suite Sister Mary
"Kill her. That's all you have to do."
"Kill Mary?" "She's a risk, and get the priest as well." 10 P.M., I feel the rain coming down My face feels the wet, my mind the storm Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour Moving silent, through the streets, they're mine, they're mine Midnite, she sings praises in the Hall To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin "What are you doing out in the rain?" She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks "I've been waiting for you. Come in". Mary, Mary just a whore for the underground They made you pay in guilt for your salvation Thought you had them fooled? Now they've sent me for you You know too much for your own good Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam What we need is trust, to keep us both alive Help us make it through the night I've no more want of any faith Binds my arm and feed my mind The only peace I've ever known I'll close my eyes and you shoot No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength from my lips I pray I feed you well Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long For what you gave to everyone The priest is cold and dead on his knees he fed From my barrel of death, he turned the Holy water red As he died he said thank you I just watched him bleed I feel the flow, the blessed stain Sweating hands like fire, and flames Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite The hallowed altar burns my flesh once more tonight Mary, sweet lady of pain Always alone Blind you search for the truth I see myself in you, parallel lives Winding at light-speed through time No time to rest yet We've got to stop his game Before madness has the final laugh Too much bloodshed We're being used and fed Like rats in experiments No final outcome here Only pain and fear It's followed us both all our lives There's one thing left to see Will it be him or me? There's one more candle left to light Don't turn your back on my disgrace The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds...so deep The sins of man are all I taste Can't spit the memory from my mind I can't cry anymore Mary, my lady of pain, always alone Blind you search for the truth I see myself in you, parallel lives Winding at light-speed through time, you're mine 09. Needle Lies
"I've had enough and I WANT OUT!"
"You can't walk away now". I looked back once And all I saw was his face Smiling, the needle crying Walking out of his room With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream You'll never get away Cold and shaking I crawled down alleys to try And scrape away the tracks that marked me Slammed my face into walls of concrete I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall Don't ever trust Don't ever trust the needle, it lies Don't ever trust Don't ever trust the needle when it cries... Cries your name Wet and raving The needle keeps calling me back To bloody my hands forever Carved my cure with the blade That left me in scars Now every time I'm weak Words scream from my arm Don't ever trust Don't ever trust the needle, it lies Don't ever trust Don't ever trust the needle when it cries... Cries your name Don't ever trust Don't ever trust the needle, it lies Don't ever trust Don't ever trust the needle when it cries... Cries your name 10. Electric Requiem
"Anybody home? Mary?"
Even in death You still look sad Don't leave me Don't leave me...here I want what you feel, believe me Turn the current on 11. Breaking The Silence
They told me to run, but just how far?
Can I go wearing the black mask of fear? The hate in my eyes always gives me away The tension building slowly Now I lost everything I had in you Nothing we shared means a thing Without you close to me I can't live without you Breaking the silence of the night Can't you hear me screaming? I look for your face in the neon light You never answer me There's no direction to my stare No more flame burning in my heart anymore Quiet, I keep it to myself Until the sun sets slowly I hear your voice in the evening rain calling Nothing will keep us apart No more lies and fear There's no end to our story Breaking the silence of the night Can't you hear me screaming? I look for your face in the neon light You never answer I could make all the wrong seem right If you were by my side I'd gather all the tears you cried And hide them deep underground Can't look back, it's just a waste of time Can't erase this hate from my eyes Breaking the silence of the night Through the streets I'm screaming Looking for you in the neon light Why don't you answer me? Breaking the silence with my cries Can't you hear me screaming? We could make all this wrong seem right But you never answer me 12. I Don't Believe In Love
I awoke on impact
Under surveillance from the camera eye Searching high and low The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it She said she loved me I guess I never knew But do we ever, ever really know? She said she'd meet me on the other side But I knew right then, I'd never find her I don't believe in love I never have, I never will I don't believe in love It's never worth the pain that you feel No more nightmares, I've seen them all From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move Every open hand's there to push and shove No time for love it doesn't matter She made a difference I guess she had a way Of making every night seem bright as day Now I walk in shadows, never see the light She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye I don't believe in love I never have, I never will I don't believe in love I'll just pretend she never was real I don't believe in love I need to forget her face, I see it still I don't believe in love It's never worth the pain that you feel No chance for contact There's no raison d'etre My only hope is one day I'll forget The pain of knowing what can never be With or without love it's all the same to me I don't believe in love I never have, I never will I don't believe in love I'll just pretend she never was real I don't believe in love I need to forget her face, I see it still I don't believe in love It's never worth the pain that you feel 13. Waiting For 22
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14. My Empty Room
Empty room today
And here I sit Chalk outline upon the wall I remember tracing it A thousand times, the night she died. Why? (Why?) There's no sleep today, I can't pretend When all my dreams are crimes I can't stand facing them Now who will come To wash away my sins Clean my room, fix my meals Be my friend? 15. Eyes Of A Stranger
Dr. David, telephone please. Dr. David
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton All alone now Except for the memories Of what we had and what we knew Everytime I try to leave it behind me I see something that reminds me of you Every night the dreams return to haunt me Your rosary wrapped around your throat I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep I see your face looking back at me And I raise my head and stare Into the eyes of a stranger I've always known that the mirror never lies People always turn away From the eyes of a stranger Afraid to know what Lies behind the stare Is this all that's left Of my life before me Straight jacket memories, sedative highs No happy ending like they've always promised There's got to be something left for me And I raise my head and stare Into the eyes of a stranger I've always known that the mirror never lies People always turn away From the eyes of a stranger Afraid to know what Lies behind the stare [Lies behind my stare] How many times must I live this tragedy How many more lies will they tell me All I want is the same as everyone Why am I here, and for how long And I raise my head and stare Into the eyes of a stranger I've always known that the mirror never lies People always turn away From the eyes of a stranger Afraid to know what Lies behind the stare Eyes of a Stranger midi |