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CUT TRANSMISSION Two hundred channels beamed to me. Everything you could want to see. News and weather, sitcoms, pop stars. Beautiful people in fast cars. Networks control what you consume. Tuning in from cradle to tomb. Brainwashed by suits and satellites. Mesmerized by the flashing lights. CHORUS It�s my mother. It�s my father. Pull the cord out the wall. It�s my brother. It�s my sister. Break the phosphor tube. It�s my friend. It�s my lover. Throw it away. Cut transmission. Politics reduced to a sound bite. Vote for who�s more clich� and trite. Murder�s good clean entertainment For subscribers to the news net. Who needs life�s little woes? You can see reality shows. Laugh track tells you what�s funny. Chained to the couch, you�re set free. CHORUS Buy the music they tell you to. Test drive the cars they�re selling you. Desensitized and mind turned numb. Your favorite program is coming on. CHORUS TIRE IRON They try to hold us with invisible bonds. This world is always kicking us around. Could have had my love But that�s not good enough. CHORUS Bare my soul with a microphone. Let loose my rage with a microphone. Kill frustration with a microphone. Drown out the lies with the glorious noise. We stand together under hate�s banner. My faceless army of outcasts assaults the wall but can�t get past. CHORUS Start the revolution with a guitar. I lie defeated in the dirt. Cause lost, but they can�t know I�m hurt. CHORUS Screaming till she hears me. Can you hear me yet? WIRE TAP Fear struck into the heart of a country. Shocked out of our quiet complacency. Come together to scream corporate slogans. Rush to buy your red, white, and blue tokens. Old elephant�s not so dumb after all. Hears opportunity when it calls. CHORUS They�re listening to you. Are you the enemy? A revolutionary? They�re listening to you. Are you something different? Believe something they can�t? They�re listening to you. Big Brother�s watching you. Of terror we must always be wary. Vigilance the price of liberty. Killers protecting our values. Speaking from blood-stained pews. Protect us from our misguided selves. Take the lying books off the shelves. CHORUS Thought Police are at your door. United we�ll continue stand. As long as the flames of fury are fanned. When this is over we�ll turn on you. Seems the right thing to do. We�ll demand you give our rights back to us. Forget we gave them to the self-righteous. CHORUS Thought Police have you under arrest. They�re listening now. FILTH Pain is all that�s left to me. Glistening razor all I can see. Must cleanse myself of this sin and filth. Coldness of the blade overcome by warmth. CHORUS I take the knife to my skin. Call upon the courage to press it down. Press it down. Fall in love for all the wrong reasons. Courage of sexual obsession. Think if we just do our best it�ll work out in the end. But once again my heart is rent. CHORUS The blade cries out its hunger. The blood trickles down my arm. The filth trickles down my arm. CHORUS I live in filth. We live in filth. Wash my filth away. FALLING FROM GRACE The Father�s favorite creation. The proud, beautiful, shining one. Serving the holy zealously Till he yearned to be free. Damned, he builds his own dark kingdom Crowded by tortured souls and demons. Smoldering they await the war. Their mighty prince will rise once more. Falling� Falling from grace again. First man living in paradise. No fear of evil, no tempting vice. Just the tree which is forbidden. Knowledge not allowed in Eden. Serpent�s tongue speaks of choice. Eating fruit, forget father�s voice. Expelled from the home they�ve always known. Angel stands with flaming sword shown. Falling�falling from grace again. The Morningstar has fallen. The Morningstar is forsaken. The Morningstar has turned to black. The Morningstar vows he�ll be back. But still he holds his head up as he says, �Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.� Falling�falling�falling�falling from grace again. WASTE OF FOOD Live your life on autopilot. Never able to keep silent. Though you have nothing to say. Live forever in yesterday. It just goes on and on and on. No matter what you try, it�s wrong. CHORUS You�re just a waste of food. A fucking waste of food. Why don�t you go away? Just curl up and die? You�re just a waste�a waste of food. School was too much of a challenge. And the real world makes you cringe. Been left completely brain-dead. Nothing but prejudice in your head. But one thing you know how to do. Make little losers just like you. CHORUS I know you�re not the one to blame. But I�ll take it out on you all the same. CHORUS HERD ANIMALS Go and buy the cool store brand. Like footprints trailing through the sand. Washed away by the next big thing. Listen to dancing fools sing. Or over-sexed morons yell. Says punk, must be a rebel. Got the car, I got the clothes. My Tommy smells like a rose. I�m ready to join the herd. CHORUS Welcome to the fold. Do exactly what you�re told. Nobody�s special. You least of all. But you�re so sure you�re different. Sure you�re above this. Welcome to the fold. Welcome to the fold. Dress yourself up all in black. Pray the big ones don�t attack. Listening to your death metal. Try talking with the devil. Forever in the corners lurk. Above all the preppie jerks. Got the trench coat and the glasses. Sit in back of all my classes. I�m ready to join the herd. CHORUS Never thinking for yourself. Just mouth the words of others. And follow the leader. Over a fucking cliff. Welcome to the fold. CHORUS REPENT Apocalypse is on its way. That�s what the fellows in black say. They�re passing out little orange books. For these fishers of men their hooks. Sit in their house of worship. Sit and listen to their bullshit. Inevitably comes the plate. Show your faith and donate. CHORUS Come on and save me. Come on and show me the way. Come on and lead me to the light. How much for a ticket to Heaven? How much for a ticket to Heaven? The pap you feed to your children. Scare them with original sin. Pass it down through generations. We�re starting to lose our patience. Old lies lose credibility. Institutions lose their glory. Beware of silver-tongued demons. With names like science and reason. CHORUS You tell me to repent. You tell me I�m a sinner. You tell me I�m going to Hell. Well, fuck you! Your day of judgment has come. CHORUS GIVE UP The only to make me feel like this. The one I can�t help but miss. There�s nothing I wouldn�t do. Just to get a smile from you. Still I know it�s all useless. You�ll never even give me a chance. I won�t give up on you. Won�t give up on love and hope. I�ll never give up on you. I�ll never give up on you. You�ve allowed them to run your life. The things you say stab me like a knife. So shallow and apathetic. Your conformity makes me sick. Detached from reality and cruel. They�ve made you an empty tool. I won�t give up on you. Though I know I don�t have a hope. I�ll never give up on you. I�ll never give up on you. Though you�ve nothing to say. (I�ll never give up) Though you�ll never feel the same way. (I�ll never give up) Despite your hypocrisy. I�ll never give up on you I won�t give up on you. Spark in your eyes brings me hope. I�ll never give up on you. I�ll never�I�ll never give up. NOBODY I wish I made a difference. Wish I could leap the barbed fence. Wish I could write something great. Hell, wish I could land a date. Done things better left unsaid. But all of them in my head. In real life it�s all to dull. Life moves at a painful crawl. CHORUS I�m nobody. I�m nothing. Not good enough for you. Not good enough for anyone. Not good enough to live. Just a worthless creep. I�m nobody. I�m nobody. I offered you all my soul. You just laughed at the poor fool. What makes me be who I am? Get rid of it fast as I can. I want to be someone new. Someone who�s deserving of you. CHORUS Turn around and look at me. Turn around and look at me. One way or another, I�ll make sure you know my name. CHORUS DON�T NEED YOU Don�t know why you brought me here. Into this world full of fear. Don�t know how they�d broken you. But soon I�ll be shattered, too. Don�t know if what I feel is wrong. But sometimes I�m glad you�re gone. CHORUS I don�t need you two. I�m fine here on my own. You were useless and empty and alive. Death has changed nothing. I don�t need you. No, I don�t need you. Lie by yourself all day. In this bed you�ll always stay. Till you find yourself dead. �Is that all there is?� you said. You chose your path, dug your grave. You just weren�t worth it to save. CHORUS Slow path to self-destruction. Savor your disconstruction. Don�t worry about what I�ll do. I�ll make it without you. CHORUS ALL TOO HUMAN We want to lie. We want to steal. We want to hurt. We want to kill. Violence lurking in your soul. Waiting for the chance to take control. Terrorists hijack airplanes. Murder over a hockey game. Man bleeding in a garage. Stalkers hunt the under-age. We�re only human. We�re all too human. Muslims kill Hindus in God�s name. The other side does the same. Eternal war over the holy land. God�s people kill as He demands. Priests raping children. No confession to forgive their sin. We�re only human. We�re all too human. We cannot staunch the blood�s flow. There�s always some new foe. Infinite cycle of violence. Kill only the killers. But who decides who�s a sinner?
