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YOUTH CULTURE FOR SALE (Record company cheeses mumble possible promotional strategy?) There's nothing so ridiculous As a square peg shoved in a round hole Life is so ridiculous You're a square peg shoved in a round hole! Living, living, living just as you're told Your mind is up on the auction block You're life's up to the highest bidder Youth culture's for sale Your youth culture's for sale Corporate greed can always buy Corporate greed can always win And you let it, you let it win This year's fashion - this year's hero This year's fashion - last year's hero? Your mind's up on the auction block Your life's up on the auction block Don't you know? This scene that scene this scene Don't you know? A scene's a scene, a scene's a scene Life ain't no movie show Youth culture for sale Your youth culture's for sale! BALANCE OF TERROR 30 minutes is all it will take A nuclear flash, the final mistake 30 minutes - rain hell from above You say it won't come, you say it's a bluff 30 minutes to watch your family die They say it's just a bargain, we say it's a lie Peeling off skin, falling out hair If the fireball don't get you, there'll be death in the air! They call it balance of power (x3) We call it balance of terror 30 minutes - that's all it will take A nuclear blast, the final mistake 30 minutes - rain hell from above They say it won't come, they say it's a bluff Deformed children innocent pawns Radiation legacy goes on and on They call it balance of power We call it balance of terror Murder!! They call it balance of power We call it balance of terror!! PERSONAL HELL I built my own personal hell By ideas I put in my brain I built my own personal hell It's not bricks it's not chains I built my own personal hell By the ideas I entertain I built my own personal hell It's my puzzle it's my game Personal! Null! I limit myself by my closed mind I think I'm so rad but I'm so often blind I limit myself by my weak will To do anything that I feel No regrets for where I've been Just curiousity about what I might have seen! Personal!! Null!! RITUAL Make it loud, loud 'n loud 'n loud Make it fast, make it easy to hide in a crowd Make it easy to predict what I can do Make it easy to predict what I will hear Make it fast, make it fast 'n fast 'n loud Make it easy to hide inside a crowd I ain't no queer, I'm a hardcore man! I like to jump around with a bunch of sweaty men! I like to jump an' bash an' jump an' bash and hurt!! I like to jump and bash with a bunch of sweaty men! There ain't no women, ain't no women dancing here!! Ain't no queer, I'm a hardcore man I like to jump around an' kick an' hurt if I can Make it fast, fast 'n fast 'n loud Make it easy to hide inside a crowd Make it easy to predict what I will do Make it easy to predict what I will hear I ain't no queer, I'm a hardcore man I like to jump around with a bunch of sweaty men! But there ain't no women, ain't no women dancing here!! |
LET THE NIGHT ROAR (WITH US) Who sold the symbol of patriotism During Vietnam? Not those who said bring 'em back Alive while we can Their love for their people Was just as plain as day Those claiming the flag made profits As boys were slain Let the night roar with us! Let the night roar with us! You can't cut us down And you can't cut us out! We're in nobody's back pocket now! If there ever was a decent meaning To the cross and the church Now those symbols are stolen And twisted much worse They care little for the diet Of kids in our schools Their family volues are simply Make that family consume! Sometimes I really just wanna go An' pitch a fit There's nothing what it seems When it comes right down to it They'll steal any symbol to confuse Make profits advance They'd even try to steal your manhood Right out of your pants! HANG 'EM HIGH I wanna know things, I wanna know things I wanna know things, what's going on? I wanna read things, I wanna read things I wanna read things, behind the scene Know things about you and me Know things we aren't told to see Find out who's the keeper An' learn to train my own eye To know the difference between the yellow I need to know things, I need to know things I need to know things, what's going on? I wanna read things, I wanna read things I wanna read things before they're all banned Know things about you and me Know things from reality The reality's not what you know Ah there's a lot unknown Who does control things? Who does control things? Who does control things for you and me? Who's got the reality? Who's got the reality? Who's got the wire in my own way? Know things 'bout you and me And know things you haven't seen Don't believe the lies you've seen Fight to remain aware! Learn, upset, learn, aware Upset, upset - for me! NOBODY RULES! DOn't tell us how to look Why don't you write a book Who said you make the rules Makes you a pack of fools Why don't you rule yourself Don't bother with nobody else We say nobody rules! If you want a leader you'd better learn to stand in line Better learn how to lick behinds Elite social cliques have missed the boat We have a laugh as you learn to kiss ass Why do you do what you do? Do you ever stop and think why you do what you do? Do you ever stop and think why you do what you do? Why do you do what you do? Do you know why? |