Artist: Napalm Death
Release: Diatribes
Release: Diatribes
1. Greed Killing
The wrong time, the wrong place
Our smiling face of destruct
Buried the seed deep in all our heads
Prepared ourselves for the fall
The greed killing
The greed killing
Instinct to mistrust
Instinct – the lust
Their butchery of feelings
Geared for the greed killing
The greed killing
The lust denied is need
The lust denied is need
The lust denied is need
The lust denied is need
The lust denied is need
Existence is a steady flow
The moulded image grows
No core, no faith in what you are
The pressure builds right from the start
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
Could it be just sour grapes?
Or have we failed to fit their shape?
It’s always give, and never take
How much can we give?
How much can we take?
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
The lust denied the need
2. Glimpse Into Genocide
Blindness leading
Which one of me is real?
Through corridors of uncertainity
A force without form
I’ve dug a hole so deep
Full of the shit of compromise
For once can’t I keep pain on the outside
Adapt
Take on release
Others
Thoughts infringed
Adapt
Take on release
A life
On pause
Syringed
Adapt
Take on release
Others
Thoughts infringed
Adapt
Take on release
A life
On pause
Syringed
A glimpse into genocide
My own emotions a million strong
A heart so full of emptiness
3. Ripe For The Breaking
You weren’t born with the world falling at your feet
The path is long and agonising being dragged on your knees
And the silver spoon in your mouth tastes spoilt with rust
When all that glitters isn’t gold and fortunes turn to dust
You’re prime for the raping
And when you don’t pander to meet the agenda
Scavengers start to gather
Perverse visionaries taste the lather
The just rewards in controlled rebellion
Tossed and probed like a gristly piece of meat
Lock, stock, and barrel slave
You just don’t contradict big brother
He’s got the right to punch you under
And they pledge you the earth, then pull you six feet down
And you’re branded with the stigma: unusable dropouts
And with inspiration ravaged, you take the final bow
The creative demeanor shattered into a million pieces
You’re ripe for the breaking
And when you don’t pander to meet the agenda
Scavengers start to gather
Perverse visionaries taste the lather
The just rewards in controlled rebellion
Tossed and probed like a gristly piece of meat
Lock, stock, and barrel slave
You just don’t contradict big brother
He’s got the right to punch you under
4. Cursed To Crawl
A fragile peace that exists inside
A frame so shallow, so narrow-minded
An open wound, we run inside
A raging turmoil
Helplessness confides…
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Enter this sphere
Commonplace, borderline
Between my rage
Between my hate
Damn our mistakes
Fixation blinds
The pain of knowing
The truth beyond…
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Unprepared
A gruesome display
Perhaps a replay
Self-inflicted
Reduced to nothing
My piece of mind seduced
Unworthiness
The scars never heal…
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Cursed to crawl
For pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
5. Cold Forgiveness
25 years severed
Take it and like it
Feel like there’s nothing more
And your story
Thirsty, despised
Real love destroys
Hungry for anger
Hungry for… anger
The face behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
The face behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Race against time, collapse
Fall in line, nothing is sacred
Thirsty, despised
Real love destroys
Hungry for anger
Hungry for… anger
The face behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
The face behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
6. My Own Worst Enemy
Played out, wide off the mark
Mania develops
Akin to fiction
More than to a world of fact
My own worst enemy
My own worst enemy
Life’s foul treachery
My own worst enemy
Dams of emotions build
A dull and turbid screen
Clouding veils of black
In jungles of hopes oppressed
My own worst enemy
My own worst enemy
Life’s foul treachery
My own worst enemy
So many times
For no reason
So many promised punches
For what reason?
Ceaseless decay
Parallel obscene and flagrant
Ceaseless decay
Restrained, my mind coils
So many times
For no reason
So many promised punches
For what reason?
Ceaseless decay
Parallel obscene and flagrant
Ceaseless decay
Restrained, my mind coils
Played out, wide off the mark
Mania develops
Akin to fiction
More than to a world of fact
My own worst enemy
My own worst enemy
Life’s foul treachery
7. Just Rewards
I lived for a moment
I grabbed hold and I didn’t relent
Skin of my teeth
Holds no longer
And now I come to claim my just rewards
Face down! Ground down with no recourse
And now I come to claim my just rewards
The spoils of the toils are spent
Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?
If the face fits, wear it
Faces fit while heart and soul slopes on
Scraping through – just rewards!
Dig the dirt – just rewards!
Hold your ground – just rewards!
Being sucked down -just rewards!
Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?
When you lay down on your own law
You swim against the sanctimonious tides
When you lay down on your own law
You swim against the sanctimonious tides
Down not out – just rewards!
Looping tracks – just rewards!
Stuned growth – just rewards!
Dwindling hope – just rewards!
I lived for a moment
I grabbed hold and I didn’t relent
Skin of my teeth
Holds no longer
And now I come to claim my just rewards
8. Dogma
Innocence
A painful reminiscence
Of what was not
And will never be
Meant not for me
An unjust war
On the futile
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill
Scraps of memories
Flung from our master’s table
A plan I’m sure to disable
Allegiance to none other
Allegiance to none other
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless
Graceful – selfish will
The chilling thrill
A play on the nerves to end all serves
As penance
To a man’s drying tear
My leer but deny ourselves
Graceful – a selfish will
The chilling thrill
A play on the nerves to end all serves
As penance
To a man’s drying tear
My leer but deny ourselves
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless
Renegate a healing catharsis
That bursts, meaningless
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill
Bludgeoning my affection wide open
Cries of overkill
9. Take The Strain
Take the strain!
Can you take it?
Take the strain!
Or even fake it?
Take the strain!
Aren’t we lucky
Take the strain!
To be breathing?
Take the strain!
Are you the man in the next bed
Without the tubes, without the life support?
Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down?
Take the strain!
Do you wear strife
Take the strain!
Like a clown?
Take the strain!
Forgiveness
Take the strain!
With a frown!
Take the strain!
Are you the animal
That escapes the snares and traps?
Bearing no quarry scars, and the hunter’s crown
We were taught to follow leaders – follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack
The goals they set slip the grasp – slip our grasp!
Chasing tails without the basic facts
Choose full pain, violate, make the grade
Taut wires fray, electro-brain, take the strain!
We were taught to follow leaders – follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack
The goals they set slip the grasp – slip our grasp!
Chasing tails without the basic facts
10. Diatribes
Bite the bit, scream ’til you’re blue the face
Bite the bit, scream ’til you’re blue the face
Bite the bit, scream ’til you’re blue the face
Bite the bit, scream ’til you’re blue the face
Nice pipe dreams or passive revolution?
Nice pipe dreams or passive revolution?
Nice pipe dreams or passive revolution?
Nice pipe dreams or passive revolution?
Foot soldiers
With weapons of placards and banners
How will they stop the rot?
No standing to reason
‘Cause reason is treason
It doesn’t seem feasible
No standing to reason
‘Cause reason is treason
It doesn’t seem feasible
Lie down
And cry all you can
The machine rolls over you
No standing to reason
‘Cause reason is treason
It doesn’t seem feasible
No standing to reason
‘Cause reason is treason
It doesn’t seem feasible
It just don’t seem feasible – no!
Black to the Nazi – try pleading affinity
Hands up, boot in, shattering the passive dream
But is it right to tolerate this fucked democratic process?
No!
Shattering the passive dream
Is it ’cause we like to hear the sound of our voice?
Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma
Time to return compliments, shattering the passive dream?
11. Placate Sedate Eradicate
Load the burden across my shoulders
Pour the effluent on thick
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Wage a war on my prone feelings
Anaesthetised and numb
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Strangely calm when I should be enraged
Placate, sedate
Placate, sedate
Eradicate
Don’t befriend the silver screen
As long as others face firing lines
Recline, relax, take it in your stride
Be the voyeur
Be the voyeur
Tamed by rabid entertainers
Engrossed in real life hell
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Only observing – I’m exempt
12. Corrosive Elements
Staying on an even keel
Keeping a gauge
Sanity hangs in the balance
I could go either way
Cerebral half life
The darkest summer days
My pressure defences melting away
‘Cause I can’t level this brimming, seething dread
My pressure defences melting away
With anxiety I’m burning!
With anxiety I’m burning!
With anxiety I’m burning!
With anxiety I’m burning!
Stripping down to the core
Stripping down to the core
Stripping down to the core
Stripping down to the core
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements inducing
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements that sap being
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements inducing
Corrosive elements, corrosive elements that sap being
Corrosive elements – joy toxin
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements – joy toxin
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements – please cleanse me!