_______________________________________________________________________________ _ _ _ _ ((___)) ((___)) [ x x ] cDc communications [ x x ] \ / presents... \ / (` ') (` ') (U) (U) AGNOSTIC FRONT Liberty & Justice For... Compliments of Racer X >>> A CULT Publication......1988 <<< -cDc- CULT OF THE DEAD COW -cDc- _______________________________________________________________________________ Music & lyrics by AGNOSTIC FRONT except 'Crucified' by IRON CROSS Songs (c) 1987 Bomber Zee, Inc. except 'Crucified' (c) 1981 Iron Cross _______________________________________________________________________________ LIBERTY & JUSTICE ----------------- Anger as sharp as the broken glass Burning cars and tear gas Every race riot--is the last one A dying culture's final gasp Every decade--yet no one learns And it's always their own homes they burn Crushed by a quorum-driven-state machine A nation's will, cannot be turned Memories lost in a nation's sleep In the dreams of contented sheep Can we ever hope to find solutions When our country has sold the Constitution All too wrong to be right The answer's there, we just lack the sight Race wars fed by prejudice and fright The love of a nation for its people burned through the night Monochrome blood sport--we never tire So many things feed the fires To repeat History--a world conspires So many years have fed the desires CRUCIAL MOMENT -------------- So many people will come and go Past their time before they know Swear they were there from the start Never had it in their hearts Things you do--come back to you Things you've said--echo on inside your head Figureheads come cheap these days No one listens to what they say In their faces I see the fear A crucial moment drawing near You pay the price--take bad advice What they said--echoes on in your head STRENGTH -------- Day after day See a world grow cold and grey Did you see it today Youth that rage while their idols age Need some new start See ideals for what they really are What does it take? Eyes for the blind What does it take? Strength of the mind That's what it has to be To cast everything aside for me It takes sacrifice To find the heart and set it free You better find the drive While you're young and still alive No one hands you the truth No one can say what's right for you Don't wait for the call Strength above all Don't just wait in vain For everything to change Don't wait for the call Strength above all GENESIS ------- The birth of man was the birth of Hell The wrathful flames dance around my head Falling figures, burning dead A well once filled with flowing water Now an endless tunnel of hate and squalor Covered, once, with locks of hair All burned off, to leave me bare A hand that once reached out to feel Now gropes about for something real I try to hold onto what I've found But the heat of the touch melts all to the ground Pulling back, Inside my head I watch for hours, the listless dead From my hear flows the tears Giving no life to that which is seared I wait for the day when only ashes appear Nothing gained--and no more fear And once again I will be pure ANTHEM ------ Changes that were hardly noticed Until time itself became a chain Once hot blood began to cool My ever slowing heart--beat in vain From the nightmare I wake in another dream And stare at an unbroken sky Try to distill a cure for the plague That's put to rest everything--I once felt inside To never again be bound by United Blood A sense of purpose lost forever more Is this the way I'll die? No! I'll find the sense of honor--that I held once before The Blood--The Honor--The Truth Thought it would never end The Blood--The Honor--The Truth Can be part of our lives again ANOTHER SIDE ------------ Awash on the tides of city rain I flow through the streets and into the drains Numbed by the gaze of uncaring faces Try to offer my truth--but they drift away Until the streets and myself have no name No longer human--no longer the same Lost all hope--lose all dreams--No more pain Awake--I choke on human steam And the stench of animal fear Tonight I'm going to light a match And let the sewer burn--until my soul is clear Each night a thousand hearts are wasted On those who don't care if they live or die Each day I wade through vacant stares and wonder Are they looking for the same things as I I see the people turn away And still hear every word they say Hope someday I'll have the nerve To put a bullet through my brain And not a needle in my vein HAPPENED YESTERDAY ------------------ You--You raised your fist You were some real Anarchist Made a lot of promises to your friends You'd never let it end Now--You just sit and stare like old men Now--You talk about how it was then Now it's a few years later Your scene isn't looking so good Everything you had, the lives you led Dead or misunderstood So--You'll rise from the dead You'll show everyone But you're running, running scared From ghosts of the past You can't run too fast No--You'll never get back what you had No--Well...that's just too bad Gone--Where did it go, it happened yesterday No--Where did it go, it happened yesterday LOST ---- Yahweh promised a conquered land, Domination over life--man against man Mother Earth came to conflict with patriarchal powers And eyes lit up with hierarchy fed desires The spirit within--quickly became lost In search of glory and power the rules of war were taught The dogs, run wild, parting souls from lives Bombs fragment, the Earth, leaving wounds in her side The roots of perversion--so deeply planted Man has become evil--peace and freedom tainted Leaders ask their people to dig their graves deeper No spirit of their own--they took heed of their keepers Man finds himself trapped in aggression He knows no other life but that of oppression HYPOCRISY --------- So you hate your Mom, you hate your Dad You hate "The State" because it's bad But look at you, how do you rate? You're just as bad as those you hate You're telling me--you keep telling lies But deep down inside--You're not true to your mind All fucked up, king of the show Flail at your friends, you don't know Fight before and afterward But it don't do you any good So live your life in ignorance Close your mind, your defiant stance Isolate and isolate Until you're gone and it's too late To wake up and live You're just a victim of your fate CRUCIFIED --------- They ask why do we dress this way Live for now--Don't understand today See the kids--But don't hear what they say Close your eyes and look the other way Say the end justifies the means Gonna lock us up and throw away the keys Crucified--Crucified for your sins Crucified--Crucified for your sins They don't know our feelings--only desperate cries They see reflections through distorted eyes We don't care because it breaks their views Got to learn to fight to live Before they grind us under heel We're the targets so easy to find And we're the ones that won't stay in line I find myself nailed to a cross For something that I didn't do It's your fault you've ruined our lives And we're the ones you crucify You're the ones who commit the crimes But it's always us who do the time =============================================================================== (c)1988 cDc communications by Racer X 8/1/88-65 All Rights Worth Not Very Much At All, And Regrettably So