1: Recipe For Hate
2: Kerozene
3: American Jesus
4: Portrait Of Autority
5: Man With A Mission
6: All Good Soldiers
7: Watch It Die
8: Struck A Nerve
9: My Poor Friend Me
10: Lookin' In
11: Don't Pray On Me
12: Modern Day Catastrophists
13: Skyscraper
14: Stealth
1: Recipe for hate
can't you feel it can't you see it the promise of prosperity it's overwhelming
you and me it afflicts us like a disease ubiquitous compelling too we cling
to you like crazy glue and inject such a potent seed it's best for all
humanity the spread of culture the sword of progress the vector of suffrage
a warm and septic breeze the pomp and elation the duty and vocation the
blood of the hybrid it's just a recipe re-living our ancestry the frightful
lack of harmony our fore-fothers who led the way their victims are still
here today now it's time to erase the story of our bogus fate our history
as it's portrayed it's just a recipe for hate
2: Kerosene
everywhere I look I see exclusive huddled uninviting shelter is privilege
of the same and competent kerosene keeps me warm I'm alone to watch it
burn kerosene exposure is a pitiful and pointless way of dying before it
gets me I'll set a funeral pyre kerosene keeps me warm I'm alone to watch
it burn kerosene i'm a man and my dignity won't wave Tonight buildings
rage! kerosene keeps me warm it feels so good to watch it burn kerosene
kerosene keeps me warm feels so good to watch it burn kerosene
3: American Jesus
i don't need to be a global citizen because i'm blessed by nationality
i'm member of a growing populace we enforce our popularity there are things
that seem to pull us under and there are things that drag us down but there's
a power and a vital presence thats lurking all around we've got the american
Jesus see him on the interstate we've got the american Jesus he helped
build the president's estate i feel sorry for the earth's population 'cuz
so few live in the U.S.A. at least the foreigners can copy our morality
they can visit but they cannot stay only precious few can garner the prosperity
it makes us walk with renewed confidence we've got a place to go when we
die and the architect resides right here we've got the american Jesus overwhelming
millions every day (exercising his authority) he's the farmers barren fields
the force the army wields the expession in the faces of the starving children
the power of the man he's the fuel that drives the clan he's the motive
and conscience of the murderer he's the preacher on t.v. the false sincerity
the form letter that's written by the big computers he's the nuclear bombs
and the kids with no moms and i'm fearful that he's inside me
4: Portait of authority
nothing more nothing less an icon on the wall decoration and duress that
which many strive to be its the merble statue standing over me and nobody
has the will to tear it down it determines wrong and right but to me its
just a stereotype and it makes us lose our sight the portait of authority
you tell me that's what im supposed to be (it embodies what he cannot be)
another time another man and oppressive intrusion and a plague across his
land and it haunts him every day it tells him he has no chance his hopes
just fade away and he can't muster the support and to him it's just a stereotype
of his life-long fight
5: Man with a mission
rescue me when I get too deep, talk to me there's nothing to tell, Everyone,
is a hydocrite, look to me, I'll save your soul Now somebody out there
must be reading my mail Cuz' everybody knows I'm a man with a mission,
coming to your town today, I can damm you to fiery perdition, Cuz' I'm
a man with a mission Follow me, when you give up, Work for me, it'll serve
you well Everyone is a hydocrite, come to me, I'll save your soul Now somebody
out there must be tapping my phone, Cuz everybody knows I'm a man with
a mission, I'm gonna fly you away, high above the noise and competition,
yeah I'm a man with a mission, Passing through your town today I condemn
you to fiery perdition, yeah I'm a man with a mission
6: All good soldiers
all good soldiers crack like boulders The sun climbs up to a razon, violins,
new boots, and numbers on a chain All good soldiers all good soldiers fall
in line when they march and shout- are a spectacle marching and singing-
will go abnywhere the president says- because the president believes in
god- like all good soldiers wait like warheads- When the fighting starts
who will be accountable, a cannibal, a cannoball It's six A.M. I can see
my breath and the clay dirt is laughing at the weekling boy- today is the
day that I'll write my friends its something I've been trying to remenber-
I had a dream of a wall that was twenty-one stories tall... All good soldiers
fall in line when they march and shout- are a respectable marching and
signing- will go anywhere the president says- because the president believes
in god- like all good soldiers should
7: Watch it die
i was born on planet earth the rotating ball whre man comes first it's
been around for a long time but now its time to watch it die i saw a man
on my big blue screen he ruled the world economy he said the rich would
never concede but some day soon he'll be put to sleep i've seen the life
of the forest green and adaptations of the deep blue sea and who knows
who is the fittest they will all soon be put to rest on a plunging flight
and we're sitting in the pilots seat in the midst of life people on a dark
horizon praying somebody will save their lives i was born on the planet
earth at a drastic time full of plastic mirth and every day i've seen increasing
signs and you would too if you'd opened your eyes you had a chance you
did not try so now it's time to watch it die
8: Struck a nerve
there's an old man on a city bus holding a candy cane and it is'nt even
christmas he see's a note in the obituary that his last friend has died
there's an inflant clinging to his overweight mother in the cold as they
go to shop for cigarettes as the spends her last dollar on a bottle of
vodka for tonight and i guess it struck a nerve like i had to squint my
eyes you can never get out of the line of sight like a barren winter day
or a patch of unburned green like a tragic real dream i guess it struck
a nerve every day i wander in negative disposition as i'm bombarded by
superlatives that i am not alone introverted i look to tomorrow for salvation
but i'm thinking altruistcally and a wave of overwhelming doubt turns me
to stone and i guess it thought my heart we just haven't got time to crack
the maze like a magic speeding clock or a cancer in our cells a collision
in the dark i guess it strunk a nerve i try to close my eyes but i cannot
ignore the stimuli if theres a purpose for us all it remains a secret to
me don't ask me to justify my life
9: My poor friend me
i know a man who doesnt have many friends i know a place he lives where
trouble never ends i know its hard for him to read 'tween the lines and
his days are getting so much shorter he simply turns away instead of bearing
down his ship is crumbling his crew is one of clowns he doesnt care as
long as he can wear the crown i know this man all too well its my poor
friend me a portrayal of the great dichotomy (a reminder of a tragic history)
its my poor friend me and im running out of steam i know there are people
who are cynical and vane they point their finger 'cuz they can't accept
the blame they live their lives under a blanket of shame and their progeny
crawl from underneath it lately i've come to see the solution and it begins
with me but i'm so fallibly human i've picked the lot
10: lookin' in
suddenly, it came to me a potent dosage of reality i saw myself in the
broad daylight and it made me think about life im not the kinda guy who
nods his head with closed eyes i scoff at labels i defy censuses and despise
group mentality all along i through that this was only human but i know
now that i'm in the minority i'm lookin' in now i think in relation to
my fellow man and what strives to do we fail to see theres no compromise
our evolution is our demise one day you may find that you are also one
of me a micrososm of the human race observing those around us desiring
to belong behing the guise of salvation we suffer along the way we're lookin'
in
11: Don't pray on me
a grizzly scene on my electron beam told a story about human rights so
all of Kings horses and all of Kings men had a riot for two days and nights
Well, the city exploded but the gates wouldn't open so the company asked
him to quit Now everybody's equal Just don't measure it Well Hanson did
it hester and Mark David did it to John and maybe Jack dit it to Marilyn
but he did it to South Vietnam for beauty and glory for money, love and
country Everybody's doing it, Don't do that to me I don't know what stopped
Jesus Christ from turning every hungry stone into bread and i don't remember
hearing how Moses reacted when the innocent first born sons lay dead Well
I guess God was a lot more demonstrative back when he flamboyantly parted
the sea now everybody's praying Don't prey on me
12: Modern day catastrophists
take those potatoes out of your ear listen to the warnings verify all your
fears there's a world outside that's ready to blow and we're all to blame
when it finally explodes you gotta listen up gotta listen to what they're
telling you gotta listen up and think about what they're saying to you
they're the modern day catastrophists they've got practical solutions (know
all the right equations) they're the self-appointed righteous pragmatists
and they know 50 ways to save the world what makes you think you can cure
our disease? maybe its just our biology maybe its time to make room for
another species this is the 21st Century
13: Skyscraper
Come let us make bricks and burn them hard We'll build a city with a tower
for the world and climb so we can reach anything at all Build me up, Tear
me down like a skyscraper Build me up, then tear down These joining Walls
So they can't climb at all I know why you tore it down that day You throught,
if you got caught we'd all go away Like a spoiled little baby who can't
come out to play You had your revenge Build me up, tears me down like a
skyscraper Build me up, then tear down these joining walls So they can't
climb at all
