Killing Joke - Democracy lyrics
Tracks 01. Savage Freedom
02. Democracy 03. Prozac People 04. Lanterns 05. Aeon 07. Intellect 08. Medicine Wheel 09. Absent Friends 10. Another Bloody Election 01. Savage Freedom
It's the age of cvs
Contract to contract And my stress levels rise This is a job for life (there are no jobs for life) I am forced to a decision I am forced to see the other side I can see a way out of here I can see a way out of here Placards of prophets And great leaders of men Personality cults All over again (but) we'll build shrines for our loved ones We'll burn fires and lights And we'll talk of the old ways To find new ways that might... ...they just might In the villages and hills On the tundra and ice To the forests of kauri In the paddies of rice By the lakes on the plains To the great mountain range Love the land and its people I can see a way out With the hours that we kill And the dreams that we hide Of alternative life styles This savage freedom I love 02. Democracy
You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow. We will blow away the green Another five lane motorway (You'll never get a referendum anyway) Funny handshakes. insider dealing Et in arcadia. arcadia ego Backhanders and salamanders A powerhouse that is morally Mechula I'm sorry democracy is changing I'm sorry democracy is changing I'm not a slogan or a badge Or a cross in the ballot box Neither values or objectives You do not represent my deepest Thoughts and wishes Education in obsolete skills Stereotyping and media projection Industrial psychologists Plan a campaign that is financed by Big business You have a choice, we are your voice Red, blue or yellow. We will blow away the green Another five lane motorway (You'll never get a referendum anyway) 03. Prozac People
I woke up in the darkness and i tried to see the clock
It was four a.m. I was curled up like a foetus and my muscles were stretched taut I couldn't face the burden of another week of worry I was broken I took a green and yellow pill. washed down with filter coffee 'til it kicked in Get me out Keep me up Level me out I was isolated by the way i thought and felt They saw my moodswings I travelled down the longitude of opposite emotions I bi-polar In the north they saw my upside. my excitable and optimistic spirit In the south they saw my anger and my tears and my despair They saw my moodswings Get me out Keep me up Level me out I was one of the prozac people I was one of the prozac people Don't monitor this guinea pig for research any more I will try again Pharmaceutical conglomerates just count me as a unit For their product Identify the enemy. remove the source of fear Start to change my life It's a false state of elation You can join the prozac nation If you want to Get me out Keep me up Level me out I was one of the prozac people I was one of the prozac people 04. Lanterns
Equinox sun. Summers of fun
No mortgage repayments to weigh my mind And if it all fell through tomorrow Put my pack on my back And it's home where the lunatics roam Faith, faith moved a mountain Where the rivers are so clean And the consciousness so green And the luminous folk shine like Lanterns of hope Lanterns of hope shine on Lanterns of hope Ribbons of wishes, tied to the trees Hives full of honey, yield to the seed And if it all fell through tomorrow Put my pack on my back And it's home where the lunatics roam Faith, faith moved a mountain Where the rivers are so clean And the consciousness so green And the luminous folk shine like Lanterns of hope Lanterns of hope shine on Lanterns of hope Fire, fire light the lantern When we drink from the streams And we grow our own greens And the fences have all been torn down Lanterns of hope (eight repeats) 05. Aeon
Denominations of a thousand
Different deities Congregations, endless carnivals of gaiety Why should i fear? why should i cling on to anything? it's not how long long i live but how beautiful it is And i saw crying. there was turmoil in the marketplace I saw economies perpetuate the next arms race And i felt helpless and there was nothing i could say And then i noticed there's a change That's coming over me Tapping into the aeon Balance of the eco-system, Self-reliance beckons us Windmills and waterfalls, strawberries and lily ponds When skyscrapers no longer block the sun's meridian When we wake up to the whisper of the voice Tapping into the aeon 07. Intellect
Gold rimmed glasses hypnotise
Acts of love are analysed Rites of passage rationalised Reason then gives birth to lies Don't pull me. don't pull me. Don't pull me down Don't pull me. don't pull me. Don't pull me down A dog doesn't question why he barks Kiss my intellect goodbye Kiss my The mind creates monstrosities Paradise makes the opposite Constitution of my heart A clear conscience all i need Don't pull me. don't pull me. Don't pull me down Don't pull me. don't pull me. Don't pull me down A dog doesn't question why he barks Kiss my intellect goodbye Kiss my To feel and cry, to move and run To laugh at hate and overcome To laugh at fate and go as one I am happy in this state Don't pull me. Don't pull me. Don't pull me down Don't pull me. Don't pull me. Don't pull me down A dog doesn't question why he barks Kiss my intellect goodbye Kiss my intellect goodbye 08. Medicine Wheel
She walks up by the path
Into a mountain side Sedona red the landscape An offering for her life She starts to rub her red clay Across her fair white skin She starts to dance and play She plays a drum and sings She builds a medicine wheel He studied physics there An undergraduate But in the coffee shop He talks of gaia's love He talks of gaia's love He speaks out how he feels He turns the medicine wheel He builds a medicine wheel We build a medicine wheel I...am so grateful He wields a band of fire To fill his heart's desire And how the wolves they bay He hears a brand new day With reverence he plays his song Stone by stone he carries on Following some high ideal He turns the medicine wheel He turns a medicine wheel He builds a medicine wheel She builds a medicine wheel We build a medicine wheel He builds a medicine wheel She builds a medicine wheel We build a medicine wheel We build a medicine wheel 09. Absent Friends
I remember the sun beating down
Across my back The taste of olives and pleasures that You taught me And we broke bread and then we drank Cheap white wine Memories of happiness frozen for all time I hear you crying in my heart Absent friends shall live by love Remember places of my past Absent friends shall live by love And the dead shall live again Absent friends shall live by Love...love...love...love And I remember laughing so much we cried You knew my every thought, there was Nothing i could hide We celebrated moons we marvelled at The night sky With flute and drum and pen we were Grateful for our lives I hear you crying in my heart Absent friends shall live by love Remember places of my past Absent friends shall live by love And the dead shall live again Absent friends shall live by Love...love...love...love I hear you crying in my heart Absent friends shall live by love Remember places of my past Absent friends shall live by love And the dead shall live again Absent friends shall live by Love...love...love...love 10. Another Bloody Election
Rosette and campaign trails
False gestures. too much make-up Elected to serve the public How did you make your fortune? I love your cheesey smile Please will you kiss my baby More cars and endless car parks Planning permission granted Another bloody election Another bloody election Cover-ups. official statements Digest my gospel headlines Marilyn committed suicide Some nut blew jfk away Mr. Murdoch cares for orphans McDonalds goes eco-friendly I'm cynical of you There's millions like me too Another bloody election Another bloody election Another bloody election Another bloody election |