CHRIST ON PARADE
Sounds of Nature Lyrics

From the sleeve notes:

This record is on an independent label because we wanted it that way - we don't want to sign to a major label, CBS, Warners, EMI, etc. (as if we had any offers). We don't want to be on MTV or play clubs that treat the headlining bands as gods and everyone else as shit who are "lucky to be there" where sexist and racist attitudes go unchallenged. We don't want to be caught up in a system where everything is beyond our control and we become another commodity. We believe in in amatuers, no difference between bands and the audience, or in anything else you'd want to do. In this society we've become specialised, atomised, categorised, patronised, compromised, and pacified right into our little boxes we call home - dieing of loneliness in a crowded world.

We and our friends are not perfect, and we don't have all the answers, who says we have to have any answers? You don't need rules to live by, just the freedom to live our own lives and deal with problems as they come, on a humanitarian level. That's hard to fit into the strict confines of our so-called "free society." You can't change anything by waiting for the "revolution"... you have to start living it today, creating a real community amonst the sterility of our modern world, and eventually the system will wither away.
DROP OUT
If you try to live your life someone always gets in your way
Telling you all sorts of lies - never let you have your say
I don't love their modern world - prisoner of their technology
It's already wasted too much of my time and left me -

Chorus:
Used and abused for so long
When I've done nothing wrong
Objected to serve the state
Rejected for my refusal to hate

Once I trusted authority - listened in all innocence
Seeing how life really is - I knew it didn't make sense
Twist your mind with school to accept what they call truth
This screwed society I'm stuck in has left me -

Feed you a thousand words like liberty and democracy
Their meaning has been lost through all the hypocrisy
Our leaders say so much shit - why won't they let me be
I don't love their modern world - it's left me -

Why is everyone so uptight? Years of learning to act right
To play the game like a fool, to live your life by established rules
Someone decides if you're successful, someone decides if you're happy
Don't play some fucker's game of win or lose
It's your life - the decision's yours to choose


THE PLAGUE
Humanity is a parasite feeding of the earth
Destroying its own habitat sucking all life dry
Civilisation's a cancer reaching out its polluted grasp
Leaving no corner untouched killing all that lives

Chorus:
People have lost their ability
To live in harmony with the earth
Now they're only mindless cells
Spreading a terminal disease

Living in our own excrement's become a part of daily life
Distracted by useless products to forget the pain
Reward the leaders who tell you how nice it is
Again and again and again they stab you in the back

Suffocating in our own shit has become a part of daily life
Creating celebrities to forget our own dreary lives
While fueling the desire to dominate
We breathe the ashes of our hopes and dreams


MIRROR IMAGE
From the day I was born I was told things were this way
Why I have leaders and why I must obey
I was led to believe what they say is fact
To trust those who told me and never answer back
They told me I had freedom but never how much
To question their own existence was never brought up
Everything's the opposite of what you're taught in school
Conditioning, not learning, is the job they're there to do
I see the shit so clearly, but how can I explain
Thoughts and ideas that have never entered their brains

THOUGHTS OF WAR (originally by Teenage Warning)
All my life living day by day
Why go to war and get blown away?
Fight for your country, fight for your flag
Watch your friend get put in a bag
Thoughts of war - we're sick of it
Fuck their war - we're sick of it


FLASH (originally by Teenage Warning)
Think that they're so clever - think that we don't know
That there's no solution for a nuclear war

Chorus:
Flash, duck, cover, my ass
Flash, duck, cover, no way
Flash, duck, cover, bullshit

When there's a nuclear war we're not gonna survive
Just put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye


CHAOS BREEDER
I don't want to be a pillar of the community
I'm not a patriot - I don't believe in this country

Chorus:
Chaos is what we need
Chaos for you and me
America is a lie
Reject the system and survive

I know what I see - I know what I feel
Your polite discussion makes me ill
I see the pain and suffering the media ignores
I know the truth about this country of ours

People see the problems and know there must be change
But are scared by their leaders who warn chaos will reign
Chaos is the people's power, a natural equilibrium
To be free you've got to unlock your mind the system has in chains
NO TRUTH
Comprehend -
The many lies

Informed...no truth
Informed...no debt
Informed...no thanks
Informed...no need

My crap filled mind
Bubbles through -
Will reach forward
Will brainwash you


LANDLORD SONG
Chorus:
End of the month - rent is due
Tell the landlord fuck you
I've got a right to live some place
You can't own every space

What right do they have to say they own the land?
To force you on the street if you don't obey their demands?

Got to keep my boring job - need the cash to pay the rent
Demanding money all the time - I'm a victim of a real crime

Investors come by my place, greed all over their face
Can't have low-life living - bad element depreciates the building

These "lords" didn't create the land - nothing but shit with a deed in hand
Sucking money from the poor - always coming back for more
(Dedicated to K. Gordon Arnold)


FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE
Media blitz, public serenade, carrot on a stick, keep you enslaved
Sit around and watch the rich have fun on T.V.
The meaning of life, to buy those things: a shiny car, a diamond ring
Sit around and watch the rich have fun on T.V.
The "good" life is withing your grasp - turn the channel, make it last
Sit around and watch the rich have fun on T.V.
Freedom of choice - no choice at all - shoved down my throat 'til I want it all
Sit around and watch the rich have fun on T.V.
Celebrities laugh, they're happy - well I don't find it one bit funny
Sit around and watch the rich have fun on T.V.
I'm tired of all this shit piled on me


AMERICA THE MYTH
America's a myth, a fucking bad joke
Raping the third world to give you hope
Do you really care? Do you think it's so?
The Times and Reader's Digest will never let you know


HUMAN LABORATORY
I'm a dog locked in a cage, my body exposed to chemicals
My body used to do the dirty work
Cheap labor, but I have to eat
I'm a pig in the navy, my skin blow-torched to test weapons
At the mercy of someone who says they know it all
Says they're acting on my behalf
I'm a monkey under their eyes watching me for a reaction
Getting me to perform their useless jobs
Just changing ads on shopping carts
Living under watchful eyes
Waiting for me to putrify
Stuck in their factories
Caged in their laboratory



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