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01. Born Into This

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Yeah NYC
The place to be
Look at all the rock heads
Like you and me
Push against the pavement
Take it to the street
Sick of all the hype now
Riding on the beat

Don't let us down
Don't let us down
They're chasing ours around
All over town

Illuminate the night
Pixelated fury

Blank generation

Knowing what the game us
Never steal from us

Don't let us down
Don't let us down
They're chasing ours around
All over town
Don't let us down
Don't let us down
They're chasing ours around
All over town
Lead the way man
Drop your wall
Lead the way man
Drop your wall
Savage scene
You gotta taste the dream
Stand tall
You gotta root it all

Gotta let it bleed
Lead the way man
Drop the wall
Lead the way man
Drop the wall
Come together
Don't let us down
Don't let us down
They're chasing ours around
All over town
Don't let us down
Don't let us down
They're chasing ours around
All over town

02. Citizens

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Paris is burning
The city alight
The club kids on fire
They're doing it right
They're keeping it punk rock
They're keeping it tight
Ripping out speakers
And pumping hi-fi

A higher love that rises above
Rises above yeah a higher love
See the silver set beneath the stars
A hundred million voices that cry as ours

The hoods are all right
The climate is rising
Pollution is high
You better take cover
Get caught in the sights

A higher love that rises above
Rises above yeah a higher love
See the silver set beneath the stars
A hundred million voices that cry as ours

To rise above it all above our hearts
She gave everthing everything to me
See the silver set beneath the stars
A hundred million voices that cry as ours

To rise above it all above our hearts
She gave everthing everything to me
See the silver set beneath the stars
A hundred million voices that cry as ours

To rise above it all above our hearts
She gave everthing everything to me

03. Diamonds

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Drop all your
You ain't got nothing to say
My girls no flirt she can walk
And she walks like she talks

My girl fade away
She got diamonds every day
Don't even
When she walks away
She's all mine
She decides

She's got diamonds
On the inside
My girl
She's got diamonds
On the inside

She watch the world fade away

Ignore every look that you throw down
And she stands around

She's got diamonds
On the inside
She's my girl
She's got diamonds
On the inside
She's my girl
She's a diamond
She's my girl
On the inside
She's my girl

04. Dirty Little Rocks

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
So you be a Dirty Little Rockstar
Blood stained sleeve your Slimane Dior
You live a lie sold your soul for the paper
Ya be a slave be a media whore
Snake skin heal and a cold black coal
Shootin saphires up a dead man's arm
Hyenna lurk outside your door
You're passed out on the bathroom floor

Bite your lip
Shake your hip
Taste the whip
You wanna be a Dirty Little Rockstar
I don't see no Dirty Little Rockstar

Chaos breeds under heaven's skyline
Your young hearts are melting only phoenix survive
Stay in the game you sick lil hipster
You get it all, ya get it ahead

Shake your hip
Bite you lip
Back the whip
You wanna be a Dirty Little Rockstar
I don't believe no Dirty Little Rockstar
You wanna be a Dirty Little Rockstar
You know we need no Dirty Little Rockstar
You know we need no Dirty Little Rockstar

05. Holy Mountain

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
I
Fell in Love
With your face
Take
Down the walls
Of this place

Your a wild thing
You say wild things
But much too wild i think
Your a wild thing
You say wild things
But much too wild i think

And you sense the heat in my heart
And she broke me down like a dog
And I cried and cried
Till I couldn't speak no more

Your a wild thing
They say wild things
But much too wild i think

Child
Hush your mouth
Innocence
Please don't speak

Your a wild thing
You say wild things
But much too wild i think
Your a wild thing
You say wild things
But much too wild i think

06. I Assassin

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Survival of the fittest, baby
Yeah, you thought that life was so damn easy
You try to run before you crawl
Yeah, you're innocent 'til they prove you guilty
Got yourself some bad information
A victim of ill communication
You can run, but you just can't hide
Baby you gotta let it ride

Guilty,
Steal your
Steal your heart

You burn brightly in the darkness, alone
You burn brightly in the dark

Got yourself some bad information
A victim of ill communication
You can run but you just can't hide
Baby you gotta let it ride

Guilty,
Steal your
Steal your heart

You burn brightly in the darkness, alone
You burn brightly in the dark

Run on our own
Run so far, so our hearts stop breaking
Run on our own
On our own

You burn brightly in the darkness, alone
You burn brightly in the dark

Run on our own
Run so far, so our hearts stop breaking
Run on our own
On our own

07. Illuminated

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
You've run into the city
The center of it all
New vision and new language
To camouflage the fall
But they had no reason to stand there doing time
Profit from the season, the path consumes the lie

Shine on
Illuminated
Shine on
Illuminated

Angel head destroyer
Young heart torn to shreds
You savage violent favours
On canvas blood
But they had no reason to stand there doing time
Profit from the season, the path consumes the lie

Shine On
Illuminated
Shine On
Illuminated
Shine On
And we all shine on
And we all shine on
Illuminated

But they had no reason to stand there doing time
Profit from the season, the path consumes the lie

Shine On
Illuminated
And we all shine on
Illuminated
Shine on
Shine on
Shine on

08. Tiger In the Sun

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
We hope for so much more
With your shock and awe
But the writing's on the wall
But we don't hide, we're not your kind
See your golden temple fall

Tiger burning in the sun
Baby I'm the only one
I'm not who they want me to be
Come and take this spell off of me.

Yeah the children's flesh for sale
And your tarot hooks
Reach deep with golden claws
The devil
Yeah he's not our kind
And this devil in the war

Tiger burning in the sun
Baby I'm the only one
I'm not who they want me to be
Come and take this spell off of me.

And we drown
Sometimes
We drown
Break down
How long
How alone
How long
How alone
We can have it all
We can have it all
Have it all
Have it all

Tiger burning in the sun
Baby I'm the only one
I'm not who they want me to be
Come and take this spell off of me.
We can have it all
Have it all

09. Savages

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
It's alright now
We're alright now
Yeah we're fighters
You and me
Soul survivor
Start a fight like lovers can
Don't surrender to the man

We're alright now
We're alright now
They can't take us
They'll never break us
She my baby she stands tall
She my baby above it all
Not a pussycat at all
She's a leopard but she don't crawl

They can't take us
They'll never break us
They can't take us
They'll never break us
They can't take us
They'll never break us
Apart
Surround us

10. Sound Of Destruction

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Got a fist full of ice
Got a head full of speed
Got a fist full of ice
Got a head full of speed
I hear the sound of destruction
I smell a rose of seduction

Got a fist full of ice baby
Got a head full of speed
Just gimme what I want now
Just gimme what I need

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

In this world full of ice
Truth is just a disease
A cheap way to please
So stop pleasing me

We're on the path of destruction
We're right up for destruction
Got a fist full of ice
Got a head full of speed

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

11. Stand Alone

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
I have chosen to abandon my post
Become a refugee of this fantastic life
And all are moved moved by feelings of love
Become a refugee of this fantastic life
Stand alone whoa I fight alone
Yeah it's been so long baby bring me home
And we go on though the battle's won from dusk til dawn
I've seen it all I've seen it all burnin'
I've been moved moved by feelings of love
A revolutionary of this fantastic life come on
Stand alone yeah I fight alone
It's been so long baby bring me home
And we go on though the battle's won from dusk til dawn
Well I've seen it all I've seen it all burnin'
Take your provocation wasted information gone
And your useless information ah take your provocation
Take your provocation wasted information gone
And your useless information ah take your provocation
Stand alone well I fight alone
Ooh ooh ooh it's been so long baby bring me home
And the battle's done baby the battle's won
From dusk til dawn yeah well I've seen it all
I've seen it all burnin' baby

12. War Pony Destroyer

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
From the cradle to the grave yeah
I threw my life away yeah come
And the gunshots that I heard
Are just gears against the word c'mon yeah
War pony destroyer oh oh oh hey yeah
Oh war pony destroyer destroyer destroyer
Be my vicious leather jacket
And my eyes ripped and torn
Like I'd never been born yeah aw
Yeah the endless crawl and the endless dance
The powder the city rip back your tired lies
You rip off your disguise will I be will I be well
War pony destroyer oh oh oh
Oh war pony destroyer destroyer destroyer yeah
War pony destroyer oh oh oh
Oh war pony destroyer destroyer destroyer aw
Get the paper take the band
And break him down break his hands
Take his eyes steal his words
Fill his mouth with butter put candy in his ears
And you bleed our sacred garden stripped
I rise above the rest I fade into the test
When I be when I be when I be your
War pony destroyer oh oh oh hey yeah
Oh war pony destroyer destroyer destroyer
War pony destroyer oh oh oh
Oh war pony destroyer destroyer destroyer aw
I am not the enemy we are not the enemy
And you are not the enemy and we are not the enemy
I am not the enemy we are not the enemy
And you are not the enemy and we are not the enemy

13. I Assassin

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Survival of the fittest, baby
Yeah, you thought that life was so damn easy
You try to run before you crawl
Yeah, you're innocent 'til they prove you guilty
Got yourself some bad information
A victim of ill communication
You can run, but you just can't hide
Baby you gotta let it ride

Guilty,
Steal your
Steal your heart

You burn brightly in the darkness, alone
You burn brightly in the dark

Got yourself some bad information
A victim of ill communication
You can run but you just can't hide
Baby you gotta let it ride

Guilty,
Steal your
Steal your heart

You burn brightly in the darkness, alone
You burn brightly in the dark

Run on our own
Run so far, so our hearts stop breaking
Run on our own
On our own

You burn brightly in the darkness, alone
You burn brightly in the dark

Run on our own
Run so far, so our hearts stop breaking
Run on our own
On our own

14. Sound Of Destruction

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
Got a fist full of ice
Got a head full of speed
Got a fist full of ice
Got a head full of speed
I hear the sound of destruction
I smell a rose of seduction

Got a fist full of ice baby
Got a head full of speed
Just gimme what I want now
Just gimme what I need

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

In this world full of ice
Truth is just a disease
A cheap way to please
So stop pleasing me

We're on the path of destruction
We're right up for destruction
Got a fist full of ice
Got a head full of speed

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

I don't fear anyone
Stray dog fighting
Haters run
I got lighting in my eye
I ain't no dirty suicide

15. Savages

Music by The Cult
Lyrics by Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy
It's alright now
We're alright now
Yeah we're fighters
You and me
Soul survivor
Start a fight like lovers can
Don't surrender to the man

We're alright now
We're alright now
They can't take us
They'll never break us
She my baby she stands tall
She my baby above it all
Not a pussycat at all
She's a leopard but she don't crawl

They can't take us
They'll never break us
They can't take us
They'll never break us
They can't take us
They'll never break us
Apart
Surround us