Killing Joke - Outside The Gate lyrics
Tracks 01. America
02. My Love Of This Land 03. Stay One Jump Ahead 04. Unto The Ends Of The Earth 05. The Calling 06. Obsession 07. Tiahuanaco 08. Outside The Gate 01. America
I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey My megabucks your symmetrical beauty Together we can serve the nation - yeah! The quality of life filled us all with pride America And as I watched I just cried and cried How I love America I will buy you rich perfumes And we will eat the finest foods A mansion in New England A silver dollar for every child Where everybody has got their price They'll sustain our way of life You and I will fly to Rio I'll make you feel like a millionaire I can survive the rat race honey Time is money and money is honey, honey My megabucks your symmetrical beauty Together we can serve the nation - yeah! The quality of life filled us all with pride America And as I watched I just cried and cried How I love America West is best and might is right And with our allies - fight the good fight A first class, five star enterprise Now everybody's got to compromise My moral code's on overload Liberty still takes its toll Take a look at the losers wasting in the bars Where they cut their losses! I can survive the rat race honey Time is money, and money is honey, honey My megabucks your symmetrical beauty Together we can serve the nation - yeah! The quality of life filled us all with pride America And as I watched I just cried and cried How I love America There were fireworks in the Gulf There was champagne at home - How I love America But showbiz and Hollywood still shouted out - America 02. My Love Of This Land
The sun is setting in on England's green and pleasant land
AT dusk I leave the town to tear the fences down And I ignore the voice of education sighing and crying in my head In the light of every dream, we're all coming home Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land Memories of gentlemen and cricket fade away in the hot summer But still they carry out traditions of the past without a meaning In the light of every dream, we're all coming home Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land New towns and concrete towerblocks, inhuman as they stand And did those feel in ancient times, or was it just our imaginations? In the light of every dream, we're all coming home Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land 03. Stay One Jump Ahead
Province, state and country
The great divide has come Ten percent shall prosper To them the kingdom come I can see trends behind trends I can see Jack has bought a business Pete inherits home Jill has got a trust fund They've all been buying fun I can see trends behind trends I can see Stay one jump ahead Jack's alright he's a predator He'll give you three good reasons that'll change your mind 1) You can't afford the B.U.P.A. health scheme So when you get sick you're going to die 2) You can't afford to buy your own property So when the rent goes up then you're on the street 3) You can't afford the bills and pills you need You've got to get them cause they're going to get you Anger is your friend now, resentment is the key Patience as a virtue so be accessary Or you can always be a victim A victim of the circumstance if you like? Stay one jump ahead 04. Unto The Ends Of The Earth
In bleak and empty places we can watch from a greater distance
- the credulous delighting in every nation Don't lose your sense of humour, entertain the wildest thoughts We can walk for miles and miles without seeing anybody Some country rare and blessed away from this confusion No message for the masses only you and me The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings! Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth with me All our friends and relatives fell for neatly packaged policies And we shuddered at the headline, newsflash of the tensions in the Middle East You know as well as I do detente can't last forever Or overpopulation Me? I'd rather watch Peace of mind is my priority The long winter is coming and instinct is telling me to fly towards the south I want to be in a place of beginnings, not endings! Forget all your belongings - leave the city, come unto the ends of the earth with me 05. The Calling
I here
I hear the calling Carry across the landscape I hear it echo from every city to every village upon the earth From every rooftop to every mountain Calling the faithful to find themselves A fire burning like precious water, the fire that drives me on and on Through hell I shall reach heaven I shall not resist the changes before me View the madness with perspective (the clock is ticking but time means nothing) So I ascend to the blinding light Then plummet to the thickest darkness (and I always tell myself how splendid is the adventure!) I can no longer see good or evil But worship polarity So do not trust the beggars that expose their poverty of spirit Bleating I will follow I heed I heed the calling Follow yourselves as leaders Arise, arise, stand upright and take pride in who and what you are Great changes are coming and you will be asked to identify yourself So run like a lion with inexhaustible strength from world to world Let your work shine unto the ends of time yeah unto the ends of time. 06. Obsession
London, New York, Paris, Tokyo
All is one with the multi-nationals Total monopolies I can sink or swim Adrenalin is rushing through every action Whole nations crave for release from the suspense And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession I've been dreaming all your nightmares Holocausts, invented fantasies We build the tower, tower falls down All my dreams come true Sweet Jesus & Mohammed Disputes between the boys Whole nations crave for release from this suspense And I explode in you, my beautiful obsession 07. Tiahuanaco
I was a tourist in the Andes
On my way to Tiahuanaco Where the balance of a weeping god Faced east to the rising sun But I looked out the window And all I could see Was the face of a girl She was looking at me She was begging for food Then I knew I had found The weeping god In the face of a child As she gestures with her fingers Her little brother followed suit And all I did was take my camera So the image never fades away I no longer saw the great gate of the sun Nor the dawn of time when our race had begun Just black eyes like starving dogs looking at me A weeping god was all I'd ever see And as I sat in contemplation beyond all charity Losing the magic and meaning of living (the earth and the stars these things are mine) And when they've drained the earth of all resources We'll face the music still For you and I shall be striking memories In the thoughts of our children's children I had arrived at my destination At the gate of the rising sun We shall again regain in sunset that balance That we left undone I stared at the shacks and the shanty town mess I couldn't help but to think of the West The balance was lost and my reason went wild As the weeping god came alive in the child I began to weep And I remember the violation Determination came, Determination, Yeah! 08. Outside The Gate
In the morning as I come around, rub my eyes and look outside
Watching, absorbing the underworld - reflections of a monstrous soul within Power stations and power games - this sickness called society I have identified the forces behind these changes that I see I put on my mask I walk down the path I go through the arch Outside the gate I have walked blkac lava fields of the northern hemisphere I have travelled the Andes range, across Pacific isles There is no escape in the waking world from that which is approaching us fast Salvation is drawn from our childhoos dreams In lands of beauty untainted by cynicism I put on my mask I walk down the path I go through the arch Outside the gate He invokes entities vast and mindless! We shall taste unimaginable joys a thousand times greater than these! And when the stars assume their rightful place, man liberates a mindless race Morals and laws shall be thrown aside - tap the millenial flame with pride Gaze with wonder, embrace your fate A madman looks outside the gate! I put on my mask I walk down the path I go through the arch I close the gate |