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		  Ministry 
In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up (live) 
		  (c) 1990 
 
1.  The Missing
the missing, the missing, the missing, the missing, they took him away
 
the last nights, the sinking shunned, the last rites, of what we have done
so watch yourself, and watch what you say, they'll all die, so watch yourself
 
he takes a look at death, they can't control, the missing, the missing
the missing, they took him away, they took him away
 
watch yourself, the missing, the missing, the missing, watch yourself
the missing, watch yourself, the missing, watch yourself, the missing
they took him away
 
the last nights, the terror's come, the last rites, of what we've controlled
so watch yourself, and watch what you say, they'll all die, so watch yourself
 
he takes a look at death, they can't control, the missing, the missing
the missing, they took him away, they took him away

watch yourself, watch yourself, watch yourself, they took him away

2.  Deity
tell me something, if you can say no, he comes for me, he comes for me
he comes for me, diety, diety, diety, diety
 
it wouldn't matter, looking for someone, he comforts me, he comforts me
diety

(chorus)  resurrection, coming in stereo, if you say so, if you say so,
he comes for me
 
blood and wine, tv divinity, he covets me, he covets me, diety
 
(chorus) 2x

3.  So What

"You have had all that money can give you, but that wasn't 
enough.  You became a thrill-seeker.  Kill for the thrill. 
(assassin)  This thrill-seeking became the one great thing in 
your life, planning one thrill on another until the murder.  Kill 
for the love of killing.  (guilty)  Kill for the thrill.  The 
thrill-seeker comes from all walks of life.  He comes from the 
home, a home where the parents are to busy to treat their children 
with respect." 
 
		     Die!  Die!  Die!  Die! 
		Scum-suckers!  Debility divulged! 
		 Anal fuck-fest, thrill Olympics 
	       Savage scourge supply and sanctify 
		       So what?  So what? 
		       So what?  So what?
		     Die!  Die!  Die!  Die! 
 
		     Die!  Die!  Die!  Die! 
			  You said it! 
	       Sedatives supplied become laxatives 
		      My eyes shit out lies 
		 I only kill to know I'm alive 
		       So what?  So what? 
		       So what?  So what?
		     Die!  Die!  Die!  Die! 
 
"Kill for the thrill.  (assassin)  Some people think newspapers 
exaggerate juvenile crime.  All that is defined mostly to the 
large cities, juvenile delinquency is underlined.  Thus parents 
think something is going wrong with the environment.  Adults 
create the world, children live it.  Juvenile delinquency is 
always rooted in adult delinquency.  And in this process, parents
play the key role when children grow up among adults who refuse
to recognize anything that is fine and good, or worthy of 
respect." 
 
		     Die!  Die!  Die!  Die! 
      So what, it's your own problem to learn to live with 
		  Destroy us, or make us slaves 
  We don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late 
	    A screaming headache on the promised age 
		   Killing time is appropriate 
      To make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say 
		      So what?  So what? 
		      So what?  So what?
			     Die!  
 
			     Die! 
		 Now that I know what it's like, 
		  I'll kill them all if I like 
		      Only time will decide 
		   No one listened to reason, 
	      it's too late and I'm ready to fight 
		So what?  Now I'm ready to fight! 
		    I'm ready to fight! (x4)
			  Fight! (x4)
			 So What?  (x6)
 
 
4. Burning Inside 
 
Will these dreams still follow me 
When the dark comes, curing time 
Can't you see it off in the sky 
It kicks you in the face and sucks you dry 
You never had the answers and now you tell me a pack of lies 
I really couldn't be bothered with you, 
Get out of my face, watch me die 
Burning inside!  Burning inside! 
 
Absolution and a frozen rule 
All the dreams of men below 
I try to grab it, but the touch is hot 
The mirror collapses, the image may not 
I'm scared of the darkness in light 
I scare myself because I know I'm right 
I see the evil, the savagery 
That cuts right through the sky 
Burning inside!  Burning inside!  (x5)

Call me the mantra with a blade in his skin 
Holding demons within 
I feel the pain as they start to decay 
The lesson never fades away 
Don't need no shadows, turn them away 
Become a man through the window pane 
Another slave and a victim of fate 
Another lesson in hate 
Burning inside!  Burning inside! (x5)
 
Burning inside! (x14)
It's burning Inside!

5. Thieves 
 
Thieves, thieves and liars, murderers 
Hypocrites and bastards and lechers 
"Get up!  Get up, get on your feet!" 
Hey, thanks for nothing 
Morals in the dust 
Two-faced intellectual cripples 
No trust 
"We are all fighting for a new race of man 
Not the race of these pigs 
And their racist society" 

Take off!  
Thieves!  Liars! (x6)
Inside, outside, which side we don't know 
My side, your side, their side, we don't know 
Who started it?  Who started it? 
Who started abandoning abolishing hate? 
Who started it?  Who started it? 
Who started affecting freedom? 
Inside, outside, which side we don't know 
My side, your side, their side, we don't know 
You're like a great big fucking cock 
Just waiting to get squeezed 
"We're gonna rip this mother fucker off 
We're gonna tear this mother fucker down" 

"Get up!  Get up, get on your feet!" 
Breathe!  Forfeit erection! 
Toxic our injection 
Geriatric fuck-fest 
With a scintillating lie 
"I hope they realize this is their last goddamn chance!" 
"Kill him!"  "Kill, kill, kill ..." 
Take off!  

Thieves!  Liars! (x4)
Inside, outside, which side we don't know 
My side, your side, their side, we don't know 
Who started it?  Who started it? 
Who started the fight between color and hate? 
Who started it?  Who started it? 
Who started affecting freedom? 
Inside, outside, which side we don't know 
My side, your side, their side, don't wanna know 
You're like a really big hit of acid just waiting to be taken 
"Power to the people!"  "Sieg heil!" 
"Power to the people!"  "Police officer!" 
"Kill, kill, kill ..."  "You will not kill!" 
"I like peace, you want peace" 
"I can't hear you, I still can't hear you!" 
 
6. Stigmata 
 
You ran out of lies! 
You ran out of lies!  Lies! 
Stronger than reason, stronger than life 
The only truth I know is the look in your eyes 
The look in your eyes! 
Just like a car crash, just like a knife 
My favorite weapon is the look in your eyes 
You ran out of lies! 

You ran out of life! 
You ran out of lies! 
Get out of my life! 

And I'm chewing on glass and tasting my fingers 
I'm not the one who's run out of lies, lies! 
You ran out of life! 
You ran out of time! 

Judging my faith and walking on splinters 
I lost my soul to the look in your eyes 
Your eyes!  You ran out of lies! 
Ran out of time... 
Stigmata!  You ran out of lies! 

Oh, you have empty eyes!  (yes) 
		 Oh, you have empty lies!  (yes) 
		      They told me nothing 
			Nothing but lies! 
		     Yes!  Yes!  Yes!  Yes! 
		   Fuck!  Fuck!  Fuck!  Fuck! 
		       Fuck me!  Fuck me! 
		      Fuck you!  Fuck you! 
		Fuck everyone!  Fuck the church! 
		     Fuck Jesus!  Fuck Mary! 
	       Fuck the Jews!  Fuck the Bhuddists! 
	       Fuck the Hindus!  Fuck George Bush! 
	     Fuck his ugly wife!  Fuck Tipper Gore! 
		 Fuck everyone!  Fuck Gorbachev! 
	     Fuck Noriega!  Fuck all these assholes! 
	      Fuck you!  Fuck me!  Fuck all of you! 
	   Stigmata!  Stigmata!  Stigmata!  Stigmata! 
		 They told me nothing but lies! 
		   Lies!  Lies!  Lies!  Lies! 

Lyrics to Ministry's Land of Rape and Honey album.  Included are:

Stigmata
The Missing
Deity
The Land Of Rape And Honey
You Know What You Are
I Prefer
Flashback


DISCLAIMER:  These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not
compelete.  They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have.
If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete
passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email.
We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in!

Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, 
indented below the current guess.  Anything with a question mark next to
it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong.

Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes:

Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu
Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu


========
Stigmata
========

stronger than reason
stronger than lies
the only truth i know
is the look in your eyes
the look in your eyes!

just like a car crash
just like a knife
my favourite weapon
is the look in your eyes
you've run out of lies!

you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
there's a ton locked in your empty eyes
   (there's nothing in your empty eyes)
GET OUT OF MY LIFE!

i'm chewing on glass
and eating my fingers
i'm not the one
who's run out of lies
lies!

you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of lies!
you've run out of time!

cutting my face
and walking on splinters
i lost my soul
to the look in your eyes
your eyes!

you ran out of lies!
you ran out of lies!
you ran out of lies!
you ran out of time!

STIGMATA!

o, you have empty eyes!...
they tell me nothing, nothing but lies


===========
The Missing
===========

the missing

he's missing... they took him away!

the last days
the sinking ship
   (the sinking shunned)
the last rites
of what we have done
so watch yourself
and watch what you say
the martyr dies
do what they say
   (so much they say)
   (so what's their take?)
   (or so they say...)

he takes it for granted
his time's gonna come
   (the dark will come)
   (they can't control)
he's missing... they took him away!

watch yourself!
the missing!
he's missing... they took him away!

the last days
the time has come
the last rites
of what we've become
so watch yourself
and watch what you say
the martyr dies
do what they say
   (so much they say)
   (so what's their take?)
   (or so they say...)

he takes it for granted
his time's gonna come
   (the dark will come)
   (they can't control)
he's missing... they took him away!

watch yourself!
they took him away!


=====
Deity
=====

eyes open
empty as halos
he comes for me
deity

help- what's the matter?
looking for someone?
he comforts me
deity

resurrection
coming in stereo
if you say so
he comes for me

let's pray
to tv divinity
he covets me
deity

resurrection
coming in stereo
if you say so
deity

resurrection
coming in stereo
if you say so


==========================
The Land of Rape and Honey
==========================

face to face
blood to blood
the mountain
you tumbled from
   (you talk about)
   (you sacrificed)
   (new sacrifice)
and in the land of rape and honey
you prey

step by step
you climb the mountain
you prey

fist to fist
eye to eye
the rulers of the wasteland
and in the land of rape and honey
you prey

step by step
you climb the mountain
you prey

head to head
chest to chest
which country is the very best?
and in the land of rape and honey
you prey

step by step
you climb the mountain
you prey


=====================
You Know What You Are
=====================

don't try to reason
no words, no words
   (no way, no way)
i've seen it all before
the prophets' age in history
   (the promised age in history)
we make some people think
that's all they need to get home
now look into my eyes
i've seen the light

the star starts in the west
we have until we cry
???
???
i don't really like happy endings
don't look into my eyes
you're gonna die

please don't kill me now
   (please just hear me out)
in a house of guilty hate
   (in a house of ill repute)
we go around in circles
retaliate
ignore the pain
ignore the terror
we saw the tears
lost in their eyes


========
I Prefer
========

have you run into the human race
have you run into the world
have you run into the system
and raised the white flag
and raised the white flag
exactly the way
i prefer... flagellation!

have you run into your head
have you run into your world
have you run into the human condition
and raised the white flag
and raised the white flag
exactly the way
i prefer... flagellation!

i prefer
flagellation!


=========
Flashback
=========

I'm gonna kill him
I'm gonna break his face
I'm gonna crack his skull
I'm gonna kick it all in
I'm gonna break his legs off
I'm gonna rip his head off
And then shit down his neck
And then I'll laugh like a motherfucker
And then I'll laugh like a motherfucker
Cause I hate her!
And then I'll fall past
I'm gonna flashback
Flashback!

Cos i hate her!

Pneumatic drill
Right through her chest
Bedroom punching
Right through the rest
I'm gonna make her suffer
I'm gonna make her suffer
And then watch her die
Cos i hate her!
And then i'll fall past
I'm gonna flashback
Flashback!

Cos i hate her!

I'm gonna rip her flesh
I'm gonna piss in her face
I'm gonna rip her open
And then hit her with mace
I'm gonna make her suffer
I'm gonna make her suffer
I'm gonna make her cry
I'm gonna watch her die
Cos i hate her!
And then i'll fall past
I'm gonna flashback
Flashback!

I hate her!
Flashback!
Laugh like a motherfucker!
I'm gonna laugh like a motherfucker!



Lyrics to Ministry's The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste album.
Included are:

Thieves
Burning Inside
Never Believe
Cannibal Song
Breathe
So What
Test
Faith Collapsing (duh!)


DISCLAIMER:  These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not
compelete.  They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have.
If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete
passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email.
We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in!

Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, 
indented below the current guess.  Anything with a question mark next to
it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong.

Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-)

Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes:

Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu
Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu


=======
Thieves
=======

thieves, thieves and liars, murderers
hypocrites and bastards and lechers
   (hypocrites and bastards in laughter)
 
hey, thanks for nothing!
morals in the dust
two-faced bastards and syncophants
no trust

fuckers!
thieves!  fuckers!
inside, outside, which side, you don't know
my side, your side, their side, we don't know
who started it?  who started it?
   (which side are they?  which side are they?)
who started abandoning/abolishing hate?
   ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came?)
who started it?  who started it?
   (which side are they?  which side are they?)
who started affecting freedom?
   (which side of the grass is greener?)
inside, outside, which side, you don't know
my side, your side, their side, we don't know
you're like a great big fucking cock,
just waiting to get squeezed!

breathe, forfeit erection!
toxical injection
geriatric fuck-fest
with scintillating lies

fuckers!
thieves!  fuckers!
inside, outside, which side, you don't know
my side, your side, their side, we don't know
who started it?  who started it?
who started the fight between color and hate?
   ((from) which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came?)
who started it?  who started it?
   (which side are they?  which side are they?)
who started affecting freedom?
   (which side of the grass is greener?)
inside, outside, which side, you don't know
my side, your side, their side, no one knows

you're like a great big hit of acid,
waiting to be taken!


==============
Burning Inside
==============

will these dreams still follow me
when the dark comes, curing time
   (of a god and his cruelty)
   (of the dog star's cruelty)
   (and destroy my security)
can't you see it up in the sky
as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
you never had the answers
and now you tell me the facts are lies
i really couldn't be bothered with you
get out of my face and watch me die
burning inside!  burning inside!

absolution and a frozen room
and the dreams of men below
i try to grab it but the touch is hot
the mirror collects it, but the image can not
   (the mirror collapses, but the image does not)
   (the mirror collapses, but the image came not)
i'm scared of the darkness and the light
i scare myself because i know i'm right
i see the evil in your savage eye
as it cuts right through the sky
burning inside!  burning inside!

call me the mantra with a blade in his skin
   (calming the mantra with a blade in his skin)
holding demons within
   (for the demons within)
i feel the pain as we start to decay
(but) the lesson never fades away
don't need no shadows, turn them away
   (too little shadows, turning away)
   (too many shadows, too little rain)
become a man through the window pane
   (you throw a man through the window pane)
another slave and a victim of fate
   (another slave, an addiction to fate)
another lesson in hate
burning inside!  burning inside!


=============
Never Believe
=============

is anybody here?
is everybody here?
the service is about to begin!

i make my self from the fire insidious
(instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels)
i'll make dust of the whole damned world
i'll make hovels for all the worms
i'll raise my hands up to face these idiot bastards

me and cellmate have lost again for ever
the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...'
i want so much to remove your past
and deliver your now-rotting flesh from evil

grab his giant head
grab his giant head
grab his giant head
grab his giant head

but i'm only allowed to touch what i know
but all that i know are hypocrites
liars and witches burning, with anger, these human beings
   (violent and wicked and burning with anger these human beings)
   (liars and witches who burn in the name of human beings)

you will never believe
never believe

we haven't much time left

evening will come
and with it the equivalent
of those devil animals
   (of the devil's animals)
with fear to come
they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill
they ask, curse at us, and we smile
caught in conviction
a crowd of senseless individuals
will go further than both love and greed
and thinking of salvation for future beings
   (as the clear salvation for future beings)

you will never believe
never believe


=============
Cannibal Song
=============

dehumanize
lobotomize
thrown into a cell
swallow your pride
in an infant mind

thrown into a cell
a punishment fit
for a crippled mind
don't do that to me
criminals, sodomites are laughing at me

life is hell
forever fighting
our deficient minds
we're all left alone and poisoned
a sickening trap
a sight worth seeing

dehumanize
lobotomize
thrown into a cell
swallow your pride
in an infant mind

don't do that to me
don't do that to me
force-fed the others
   (force breaks our back)
they preserve fearfully
   (time preserves, fearfully)

you know what i said
hideous and strange
thrown into a cell
a punishment fit
for a crippled mind


=======
Breathe
=======

breathe!

corporate causes with self-served denial
   (cold burning movement with senseless denial)
the raping of the land
collapse
the long malfunction
they never learned to breathe

breathe!

rusted syringes and half-thought disposal
a burial at sea
waste want a graveyard
swimming in disease

breathe!

this is the world
it's not working
this is this earth

breathe!  breathe, you fucker!

children gasping the second-hand air
death and desperation
we've got to cut the lies with truth
we breathe

breathe!

this is the world
the clock's ticking
is this this earth?

breathe!  breathe, you fucker!

hope springs eternal from wistful conviction
   (hope springs eternal when paired with conviction)
action mistaken for wisdom is made
   (action mistaken for wisdom is plain)
all things concerning the true contradiction
   (all things concerned, it's the true contradiction)
the world is insane

breathe!

this is the world
it's got no future
is this this earth?

breathe!  breathe, you fucker!


=======
So What
=======

die!  die!  die!  die!
scum suckers!  depravity debauched!
anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics
savage scourge supply and sanctify
so what?  so what?
die!  die!  die!  die!

die!  die!  die!  die!
you said it!
sedatives supplied become laxatives
my eyes shit out lies
i only kill to know i'm alive
so what?  so what?
die!  die!  die!  die!

die!  die!  die!  die!
so what, it's your problem to learn to live with
destroy us, or make us saints
we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late
a screaming headache on the proudest date
   (a screaming headache on the promised age)
   (a screaming headache on the proud estate)
killing time is appropriate
to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say
so what?  so what?
die!  die!  die!  die!

die!
now that i know what is right
i'll kill them all if i like
i'm a time bomb inside
no one listens to reason,
it's too late and i'm ready to fight!
so what?  now i'm ready to fight!


====
Test
====

yo!  this is a test

you say this one, i say that
you say this one, i say that
you say this one, i say that
you say this one, i say that
but i'm not with that
so step back from this man
cos i won't be held back
so don't fight or dis' or piss me off
cos i'm not soft or weak
running down in the maze of the day
this is a new phase
don't be commercial or sell out
or get the hell out of this business
but i won't be caught in that net of suckers
and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble
society probably wants me to give up
society probably wants me to give up
as i live up to be my best
in a test
a fight for death
as i fight for my very last breath
and etc.
and etc.
gotta be strong
but wait a minute
now could i be better?
now could i be better?
well, only i know
well, what about you?
or do you have a clue?
could've, would've, should've - it's too late
could've, would've, should've - it's too late
why you waiting, hey don't sit there, move!
be your own person!

wake up, make up your mind
seek banality, you will find
be your own person
wait for all the weak
cos they make the people level
and with you make a team
so believe, and be your best
cos this is a test
go for the top chart
rock with all your heart
rock-hard, stay up, go
deal with what's going on
in this crazy world
man woman child boy girl
insane to the playing
love music power pain
be what you gotta do
get the knowing attitude
cos this is a test
that we suggest
be your own person!
cos this is a test!
this is... a test!

cos we all know who is the real victim
society does not want them picked on
labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt,
don't miss your boot and kicked him
faceless in the morning in their urban plight
felt like a symbol with every situation
any of these schools are already overcrowded
project nation, more inflation
better your damn situation
but how can you better your situation
if you have no occupation?
terrorists said, '???'
see how many different schools you can enter us
i'll tell you in the pit, that life's a bitch
the world's all upset, i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch
you own the key to the damn city
   (you can keep to your damned city)
well it's a damn pity


================
Faith Collapsing
================

faith collapsing!
faith collapsing!...




Lyrics to Ministry's singles.  Included are:

Cold Life
I'm Falling
All Day
(Everyday Is) Halloween
Nature Of Love
Isle Of Man
Tonight We Murder
Jesus Built My Hotrod (approximately)
TV Song


DISCLAIMER:  These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not
compelete.  They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have.
If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete
passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email.
We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in!

Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, 
indented below the current guess.  Anything with a question mark next to
it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong.

Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-)

Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes:

Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu
Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu


=========
Cold Life
=========

cold

you know the yolk it's spreading from
you laugh as people scatter 'bout
surrounded by a veil of stars
you realize your life is dark

earth gets colder every day
if scientists could have their way
they'd study us from far away
and watch as people's minds decay

cold

your body's in the hands of fools
with swimming pools and low iq's
there's nothing to see, nothing to do
buy your stocks and sell your jewels

bill collectors stole my mail
my wife and kids are all for sale
i hope to god i go to jail
and no one can come up with bail

cold life

i can't control my buried thoughts
the slightest thing makes me distraught
i'm like the people i once fought
my every action's being bought
 
robot trainers earn their pay
as mutant kids go out to play
it's such a pretty pretty day
with orange nights and days of grey
 
cold
 
i've now become a nervous wreck
i'm getting closer to my death
i keep expecting my last breath
as all my friends just laugh and jest
 
the earth is such a filthy place
and human such an awful race
and i'd rather live in outer space
where death goes at a slower pace
 
cold life


===========
I'm Falling
===========

first last night we're riding home
with friends in a big blue car
for this man fed us rubbish
as if it were caviar
we told him, 'sir, please go away!'
'we're innocent of crimes!'
he hit me with his black nightstick
and all i heard were cries

i'm falling

i asked her for a date one night
she thought it'd be a laugh
i'd take her to a restaurant
and then up to her pad
i waited at my house that night
for her phone call to come
she'd gone off with a ruffian
and he came by with a gun

i'm falling

i'm falling
yes i'm falling


=======
All Day
=======

well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun
and i keep on working till the work is all done
but a voice in my head keeps ticking away
as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day
well he works hard
and he lives hard
and he breaks his back without nothing to gain
while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand
is that what it takes to make you understand?
that it's something you read, not something you meant
to be slaving away without a shred of integrity
he worked hard
and he lived hard
and he broke his back without nothing to say
   (and he broke his back without nothing to gain)
while the man in control was just laughing away

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

was it something you read?
was it something you meant?
was it something you said?
or was it heaven sent?

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision


=======================
(Everyday is) Halloween
=======================

well i live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the night
cos to me everyday is halloween
i have given up hiding and started to fight
i have started to fight

well any time, any place, anywhere that i go
all the people seem to stop and stare
they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween?
you look so absurd, you look so obscene'

o, why can't i live a life for me?
why should i take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

well i let their teeny minds think
that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink
and i dress this way just to keep them at bay
cos halloween is everyday
it's everyday

o, why can't i live a life for me?
why should i take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

o, why can't i live a life for me?
why should i take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
i'm not the one that's so absurd

why hide it?
why fight it?
hurt feelings
best to stop feeling hurt
from denials, reprisals
it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world


==================
The Nature of Love
==================

love -

love is like an open hand
stings a little when it lands
hold me closer
hold me tighter
hold me so damn close that my heart's on fire
it's a fantasy
it's a nightmare
and the whole damn world is walking round in theirs
i said love -

love is like a razor blade
double edge and double pain
hold me closer
hold me tighter
when i rip your flesh and the pain is fresh
it's a fantasy
it's a nightmare
and the whole damn world doesn't seem to care
i said love -

love is like a butcher knife
double sharp for single lives
hold me closer
hold me tighter
as the lights go out and we start to shout
it's a fantasy
it's a nightmare
with a big black bruise and a handful of hair
i said love -


===========
Isle Of Man
===========

nice place
clean water
fresh air
blue skies
like pirates
we tried it
we took what we deserved
half million
years later
we'd used up
our reserves
we're crying
'what happened?'
we get what we deserve
we get what we deserve
we get instead the isle of man
the isle of man

i've wandered
through forests
with our garbage
waist-high
can't clean it
i mean it
we get what we deserve
rainy mornings
dry evenings
it's growing
on my nerves
just gases
you fascists
you get what you deserve
you get what you deserve
you get instead the isle of man
the isle of man

i'm writing
this letter
so no one
will forget
some future
cave dweller
will find these notes an isle of man
the isle of man


=================
Tonight We Murder
=================

red hand takes a purple terror
love knows these nuts
when we escape from the madhouse
we will... hunt down

tonight we murder

between the battle of pain and hate
we will wait, but not for our time
we'll for hate and to take
to deep... throat

tonight

tonight we murder

between the pain, the battle of pain
love never ties knots
a twisted plan of fear and hate
we'll never untie these nuts

tonight we murder

i murder
tonight we murder


=====================
Jesus Built My Hotrod
=====================

soon i discovered that this rock thing was true
jerry lee lewis was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that i could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

ding dang dong dong bing bong
think i think i thought of a ploy
everytime i gotta go without my baby
hear my motor roar
why why why, why why baby
is it some people fear
if i die without family
then i'll go down to hell?

ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
everywhere i go
everytime you tell me, baby,
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

ding ding dong a dong dong ding dong
think i think i thought of a cure
half my time i tell you baby
i'll have it have it on the floor
why why why, why why baby
sickness sickness or a cure?
if i die with a ding standin' on here
they'll well wow now town hell town now now

ding a dong dong dong dong ding dong
ding a ding a dong a dong
everytime you tell me, baby,
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

if i die a ding a ding a ding dong
think i think it's out on the floor
ding a dang dong dong dong ding dong
why why they'll adore
wham bam bang a dang a dang a ding dong
think i think it's unfair
ding, dang, dong dong dong
whoa no!

i wanna love ya!

why why why, why why darling
do you do you tell me to clear?
everytime i gotta go without my baby
now i've downed myself
why why why, ding a ding a ding a ding a
ding a ding a down on the floor
ding ding dang a bong bong bing bong
think i think i thought of a cure

a bip bip bip a bop bop bim bam
ding a ding a during the day
if he died without reason
then we'll know it was him
why why why, why why darling
<crunch> get down low
if i die the lord might tell me
that i lived without a soul

everytime you tell me baby
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

if i die with all our people
think he think he'd call the police
we'll retaliate and no one knows what else
why why why, why why baby
he we go, oh that's easy -- shh!
and fuck me
and fuck me
and fuck me round!

jesus built my car
it's a love affair
mainly jesus and my hot rod

yeah, fuck it!


=======
TV Song
=======

tell me something i don't know
show me something i can't use
push the button
connect the goddamned dots
live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
commodity sodomy glass autonomy
promise everything take it all away
give it a rest
you're lying through your teeth
you're lying through your teeth
who what which why who
when did you say the earth would stop turning?
why did you say we would all start burning?
when should i make a pledge?
should i listen to the voices in my head?
connect the goddamned dots
connect the goddamned dots
who am i trying to impress?
who could care less?
tell me something i don't know



Lyrics to Ministry's Psalm 69 album.  Included are:

N.W.O.
Just One Fix
TV II
Hero
Jesus Built My Hotrod (approximately)
Scarecrow
Psalm 69
Convulsion


DISCLAIMER:  These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not
compelete.  They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have.
If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete
passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email.
We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in!

Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, 
indented below the current guess.  Anything with a question mark next to
it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong.

Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-)

Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes:

Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu
Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu


======
N.W.O.
======

all the locals have the tears of regret
open fire cos i love you to death
sky high, with a heartache of stone
you'll never see me cos i'm always alone

how to love without a trace of dissent
i'll buy the torture cos you pay for the rent
tied high with a broken command
you're all alone to the promised land

i'm in love with this malicious intent
you've been taken but you don't know it yet
what you will know must never live to be found
cos it's been subject to the eyes of the drowned


============
Just One Fix
============

blood keeps drinking away
trying to find its destination
driving through new orleans at night
gotta find a destination

just one fix

life keeps slipping away
fighting a war with damnation
poised, keep cutting away
i'm looking in through to salvation

just one fix

like if i boarded a train
trying to take in another station
join us and the choice will be made
unless we kill the lie as a nation

just one fix


=====
TV II
=====

tell me something i don't know
show me something i can't use
push the button
connect the goddamned dots
live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
commodity sodomy glass autonomy
promise everything take it all away
give it a rest
you're lying through your teeth
you're lying through your teeth
who what which why who
when did you say the earth would stop turning?
why did you say we would all start burning?
when should i make a pledge?
should i listen to the voices in my head?
connect the goddamned dots
connect the goddamned dots
connect the goddamned dots
who am i trying to impress?
who could care less?
tell me something i don't know


====
Hero
====

they get you ready to fight
the fuse is ready to blow
you shoot to kill on sight
they call you g i joe
you never wanted to stop
the smell of burning flesh
the hero marches alone
across the highway of death

it's not a matter of rights
it's just a matter of war
don't have a reason to fight
they never had one before
you're just a killing machine
he's come to take you down
we take the gas that we need
and pump the blood on the ground

they're gonna set you up
so they can take you down
they're gonna suck you dry
they've left the blood to be found
they're gonna rip you apart
you're gonna burn at the stake
cos when it's time to collect
it's only heroes who pay


=====================
Jesus Built My Hotrod
=====================

soon i discovered that this rock thing was true
jerry lee lewis was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that i could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

ding dang dong dong bing bong
think i think i thought of a ploy
everytime i gotta go without my baby
hear my motor roar
why why why, why why baby
is it some people fear
if i die without family
then i'll go down to hell?

ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
everywhere i go
everytime you tell me, baby,
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

ding ding dong a dong dong ding dong
think i think i thought of a cure
half my time i tell you baby
i'll have it have it on the floor
why why why, why why baby
sickness sickness or a cure?
if i die with a ding standin' on here
they'll well wow now town hell town now now

ding a dong dong dong dong ding dong
ding a ding a dong a dong
everytime you tell me, baby,
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

if i die a ding a ding a ding dong
think i think it's out on the floor
ding a dang dong dong dong ding dong
why why they'll adore
wham bam bang a dang a dang a ding dong
think i think it's unfair
ding, dang, dong dong dong
whoa no!

i wanna love ya!

why why why, why why darling
do you do you tell me to clear?
everytime i gotta go without my baby
now i've downed myself
why why why, ding a ding a ding a ding a
ding a ding a down on the floor
ding ding dang a bong bong bing bong
think i think i thought of a cure

a bip bip bip a bop bop bim bam
ding a ding a during the day
if he died without reason
then we'll know it was him
why why why, why why darling
<crunch> get down low
if i die the lord might tell me
that i lived without a soul

everytime you tell me baby
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

if i die with all our people
think he think he'd call the police
we'll retaliate and no one knows what else
why why why, why why baby
he we go, oh that's easy -- shh!
and fuck me
and fuck me
and fuck me raw!

jesus built my car
it's a love affair
mainly jesus and my hot rod

yeah, fuck it!


=========
Scarecrow
=========

staring in the face of condemnation
laughter fills the sky instead of rain

live my life alone in resignation
arms outstretched for those who cannot say

scarecrow

crucified and left in isolation
pictures of our lost morality

scarecrow

eyeless stares invite this whole damnation
rotting corpse of inhumanity

scarecrow


========
Psalm 69
========

congregation, please be seated and open your prayer guides to the book
of revelations, psalm 69

drinking the blood of jesus
drinking it right from his face
learning to swim in the ocean
learning to prowl in his name

the body of christ looked unto me
a preacher with god-given hands
he wants you to suck up the holy ghost
and swallow the sins of man

psalm 69

the invisible piss of the holy ghost
comes down like acid rain
they're making a bonnet of terminal guilt
the scavengers go on parade

the fathers who write that eternity
is used to fight the sword
have filled you up with the devil's drug
and he'll come in the name of the lord

the way to succeed and the way to suck eggs

stop it!


==========
Convulsion
==========

convulsion! convulsion!



Lyrics to Ministry's Twitch album.  Included are:

Just Like You
We Believe
All Day
The Angel
Over The Shoulder
My Possession
Isle Of Man


DISCLAIMER:  These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not
compelete.  They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have.
If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete
passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email.
We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in!

Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, 
indented below the current guess.  Anything with a question mark next to
it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong.

Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-)

Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes:

Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu
Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu


=============
Just Like You
=============

standing on corners
and begging for quarters
for what?                  FOR YOU         and you
busting my head
cos that's what you said
for all of us              FUCK YOU
			   JUST LIKE YOU
people are happy
when they're not so trapped
by someone                 JUST LIKE YOU   and you
many more years
of nothing but fear
of anything                YOU DO
1980's was run by
a person who's crazy       LIKE YOU        and you
the 1990's will be
unkindly, exactly          LIKE YOU        and you
			   JUST LIKE YOU   and you
			   YOU
when one dictator
is the same as the later   JUST LIKE YOU   and you
we work, we survive
			   JUST LIKE YOU   and you
					   and you
					   and you
we work, we twitch         YOU             and you
					   and you
					   and you
					   and you
			   JUST LIKE YOU


==========
We Believe
==========

standing round the table
spinning fables
and signing autographs
can't you hear them laugh
HA HA HA HA HA
in their secrecies
they plan their strategies
it's called hypocrisy
and we believe

mornings
they tell me everything
that i need to know
or i care to know
well i can visualize
the look in your eyes
the horror
as the plane goes down
and the siren sounds
we can't believe
we can't believe

in the east where the bear is dancing
in the west where the eagle flies
in the middle we stand our ground
the forces pull us down down down

tensions on both sides
we're paralyzed and victimized
we're terrified and petrified
demoralized and mortified
of genocide and suicide
and patricide and cyanide
we're pacified by every side
force-fed pride and then we die for them
we die for them

in the east where the bear is dancing
in the west where the eagle flies
in the middle we stand our ground
the forces pull us down down down

we believe


=======
All Day
=======

well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun
and i keep on working till the work is all done
but a voice in my head keeps ticking away
as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day
well he works hard
and he lives hard
and he breaks his back without nothing to gain
while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand
is that what it takes to make you understand?
that it's something you read, not something you meant
to be slaving away without a shred of integrity
he worked hard
and he lived hard
and he broke his back without nothing to say
   (and he broke his back without nothing to gain)
while the man in control was just laughing away

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

was it something you read?
was it something you meant?
was it something you said?
or was it heaven sent?

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision


=========
The Angel
=========

now is an angel there?
now is an angel there?
now is an angel there?

one left out
when they passed heaven about
what about me
sitting here in my purgatory
so get out
   (sort it out)
he's dead
   (these days)
i'm alive
he's spared
always an angel who cares
always an angel there
 
one like me
we try so hard
five like you
someone dead again
where's your angel now?
where's your angel now?
where's your morals now?
where's your morals?

always an angel there
where's your angel now?
always an angel who cares
always an angel there
where's your morals?
there's always an angel who cares
there's always an angel there

no more people staring
no more fatal dares
like a baby grabbing at
something that isn't there
but it is
but it is

always an angel there
always an angel who cares
always an angel there
always an angel who cares


=================
Over The Shoulder
=================

big size, small size
any size, round and round
we need, we take
burn it all to the ground
started off and learned to walk
   (started over and learned to walk)
we teach you how to talk
please try and understand
we're helping all mankind
we use them a while then it's over the shoulder
we use them a while then it's over the shoulder

we are serious
o, serious
dollar here, dollar there
dollars flying everywhere
we're only here to please
stop the killing, trust me
we'll only be a while
we've got a big big smile
   (big while, big big smile)
we use them a while then it's over the shoulder
we use them a while then it's over the shoulder

we have in our hands
every woman and every man
things are gonna go far
die beneath a big black sky
   (down a real big fast car)
and what you see is what you get
 keep 'em hungry, you bet
you need security?
kid, you've got the enemy
   (to keep you from the enemy)
we use them a while then it's over the shoulder
we use them a while then it's over the shoulder


=============
My Possession
=============

hanging and banging and cussing and bitching
and scratching and twitching at my demand
grabbing and poking and bruising and choking
i'm sprinkled i'm tinkled i'm losing my man
i found a new way
i found a better way
i found the only way
to cure frustration
i don't care what you say
about my (im?)moral ways
get on your knees and pray
cos you're slaves anyway

coming and going and moving and groaning
and hitting that kitten and making him yowl
wailing and flailing and trudging and flogging
and punching my doggie and making him howl
i found a new way
i found a better way
i found the only way
to cure frustration
i don't care what you say
about my (im?)moral ways
get on your knees and pray
cos you're slaves anyway

my possession, my possession, my possession, mine, all (mi-)mine

kicking that butt now licking that butt
now kneel on that gut now the red light's on
pushing and shoving that bread in the oven
i'm paying them back for what they've done
i found a new way
i found a better way
i found the only way
to cure frustration
i don't care what you say
about my (im?)moral ways
get on your knees and pray
cos you're slaves anyway

my possession, my possession, my possession, mine, all (mi-)mine


===========
Isle of Man
===========

nice place
clean water
fresh air
blue skies
like pirates
we tried it
we took what we deserved
half million
years later
we'd used up
our reserves
we're crying
'what happened?'
we get what we deserve
we get what we deserve
we get instead the isle of man
the isle of man

i've wandered
through forests
with our garbage
waist-high
can't clean it
i mean it
we get what we deserve
rainy mornings
dry evenings
it's growing
on my nerves
just gases
you fascists
you get what you deserve
you get what you deserve
you get instead the isle of man
the isle of man

i'm writing
this letter
so no one
will forget
some future
cave dweller
will find these notes an isle of man
the isle of man

	  Ministry  -  The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste  -  1989
 
 
				    Thieves
 
 thieves, thieves and liars, murderers
 hypocrites and bastards and lechers
 
 hey, thanks for nothing!
 morals in the dust
 two-faced bastards and syncophants
 no trust
 
 fuckers!
 thieves!  fuckers!
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, we don't know
 who started it?  who started it?
					(which side are they...)
 who started abandoning/abolishing hate?
					((from) which side of their mouth do
					you suppose that it came)
 who started it?  who started it?
 who started affecting freedom?
					(which side of the grass is greener)
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, we don't know
 you're like a great big fucking cock,
 just waiting to get squeezed!
 
 breathe, forfeit erection!             (free from the erection)
 toxic our injection                    (toxical injection)
 geriatric fuck-fest
 with scintillating lies                (we still believe in lies)
 
 fuckers!
 thieves!  fuckers!
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, we don't know
 who started it?  who started it?
					(which side are they...)
 who started the fight between color and hate?
					((from) which side of their mouth do
					you suppose that it came)
 who started it?  who started it?
 who started affecting freedom?
					(which side of the grass is greener)
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, no one knows
 you're like a great big hit of acid,
 waiting to be taken!
 
 
				 Burning Inside
 
 will these dreams still follow me
 when the dark comes, curing time       (of a god and his cruelty)
					(of the dog star's cruelty)
 can't you see it up in the sky
 as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
 you never had the answers
 and now you tell me the facts are lies
 i really couldn't be bothered with you
 get out of my face and watch me die
 burning inside!  burning inside!
 
 absolution and a frozen rule           (... room)
 all the dreams of men below
 i try to grab it but the touch is hot
 the mirror collects it, but the image can not
					(the mirror collapses, but the image
					does not)
 i'm scared of the darkness and the light
 i scare myself because i know i'm right
 i see the evil and the savagery        (i see the evil in your savage eye)
 as it cuts right through the sky
 burning inside!  burning inside!
 
 call me the mantra with a blade in his skin    (calming...)
 holding demons within
 i feel the pain as we start to decay
 the lesson never fades away
 don't need no shadows, turn them away
					(too little shadows, turning away)
 become a man through the window pane   (you throw...)
 another slave and a victim of fate     (an addiction to fate)
 another lesson in hate
 burning inside!  burning inside!
 
 
				 Never Believe
 
 is anybody here?
 is everybody here?
 the service is about to begin!
 
 i make my self from the fire insidious
 (instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels)
 i'll make dust of the whole damned world
 i'll make hovels for all the worms
 i'll raise my hands up to face these idiot bastards
 
 me and cellmate have lost again for ever
 the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...'
 i want so much to remove your past
 and deliver your now-rotting flesh from evil
 
 grab his giant head
 grab his giant head
 grab his giant head
 grab his giant head
 
 but i'm only allowed to touch what i know
 but all that i know are hypocrites
 liars and witches burning, with anger, these human beings
	(violent and wicked and burning with anger these human beings)
	(liars and witches who burn in the name of human beings)
 
 you will never believe
 never believe
 
 we haven't much time left
 
 evening will come
 and with it the equivalent
 of those devil animals                 (of the devil's animals)
 with fear to come
 they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill
 they ask, curse at us, and we smile
 caught in conviction
 a crowd of senseless individuals
 will go further than both love and greed
 and thinking of salvation for future beings
	(as the clear salvation for future beings)
 
 you will never believe
 never believe
 
 
				 Cannibal Song
 
 dehumanize
 lobotomize
 thrown into a cell
 swallow your pride
 and an infant mind
 
 thrown into a cell
 a punishment fit
 for a crippled mind
 don't do that to me
 criminals, sodomites are laughing at me
 
 life is hell
 forever fighting
 our deficient minds
 we're all left alone and poisoned
 a sickening trap
 a sight worth seeing
 
 dehumanize
 lobotomize
 thrown into a cell
 swallow your pride
 and an infant mind
 
 don't do that to me
 don't do that to me
 force-fed the others                   (force breaks our back)
 they preserve fearfully                (time preserves, fearfully)
 
 you know what i said
 hideous and strange
 thrown into a cell
 a punishment fit
 for a crippled mind
 
 
				    Breathe
 
 breathe!
 
 cold burning movement with senseless denial
	(corporate causes with self-served denial)
 the raping of the land
 the last                               (at last)
 the last malfunction
 they never learned to breathe
 
 breathe!
 
 rusted syringes and half-thought disposal
 a burial at sea
 waste want graveyard
 swimming in disease
 
 breathe!
 
 this is the world
 it's not working
 this is this earth
 
 breathe!  breathe, you fucker!
 
 children, gasping, the second hand there
 death and desperation
 we've got to cut the lies with truth
 we pray
 
 breathe!
 
 this is the world
 the clock's ticking
 is this this earth?
 
 breathe!  breathe, you fucker!
 
 hope springs eternal from wistful conviction
	(hope springs eternal when paired with conviction)
 action mistaken for wisdom is made
	(action mistaken for wisdom is plain)
 all things concerning the true contradiction
	(all things concerned, it's the true contradiction)
 the world is insane
 
 breathe!
 
 this is the world
 it's got no future
 is this this earth?
 
 breathe!  breathe, you fucker!
 
 
				    So What
 
    'you have had all that money can give you, but that wasn't
    enough.  you became a thrill-seeker.  kill for the thrill.
    (assassin.)  this thrill-seeking became the one great thing in
    your life, planning  one thrill on another until the murder.  kill
    for the love of killing.  (guilty.)  kill for the thrill.  the
    thrill-seeker comes from all walks of life.  he comes from the
    home, the home where the parents are too busy to treat their
    children with respect.'
 
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 scum suckers!  debility divulged!      (you try to take too much)
					(depravity debauched)
 anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics
 savage scourge supply and sanctify     (cervix scars...)
 so what?  so what?
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 you said it!
 sedatives supplied become laxatives
 my eyes shit out lies
 i only kill to know i'm alive
 so what?  so what?
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 
    'kill for the thrill.  (assassin.)  some people think newspapers
    exaggerate juvenile crime.  all that is confined mostly to the
    large cities; juvenile delinquency is underlined.  thus parents
    think something is going wrong with the environment.  adults
    create the world, children live it.  juvenile delinquency is
    always rooted in adult delinquency.  and in this process, parents
    play the key role when children grow up among adults who refuse
    to recognize anything that is fine and good, or worthy of
    respect.'
 
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 so what, it's your problem to learn to live with
 destroy us, or make us saints
 we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late
 a screaming headache on the promised age       (proudest date)
						(proud estate)
 killing time is appropriate
 to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say
 so what?  so what?
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 
 die!
 now that i know what is right          (it's like)
 i'll kill them all if i like
 i'm a time bomb inside
 no one listens to reason,
 it's too late and i'm ready to fight!
 so what?  now i'm ready to fight!
 
 
				      Test
 
 yo!  this is a test
 
 you say this one, i say that
 you say this one, i say that
 you say this one, i say that
 you say this one, i say that
 but i'm not with that
 so step back from this man
 cos i won't be held back
 so don't try to fight or piss me off
	(so don't fight or kiss or piss me off)
 cos i'm not soft or weak
 running down in the maze of the day
 this is a new phase
 don't be commercial or sell out
 or get the hell out of this business
 but i won't be caught in that net of suckers
 and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble
 society probably wants me to give up
 society probably wants me to give up
 as i live up to be my best
 in a test
 a fight for death
 as i fight for my very last breath
 and etc.
 and etc.
 gotta be strong
 but wait a minute
 now could i be better
 now could i be better
 well only i know
 well what about you
 or do you have a clue
 could've, would've, should've - it's too late
 could've, would've, should've - it's too late
 why you waiting, why you sit there, move!
	(why you waiting, hey don't sit there, move!)
 be your best!
 
 wake up, make up your mind
 seek the knowledge you will find
 be your own person
 wait for all the weak
 cos they make the people level
 and with you make a team
 so wait and be your best
 cos this is a test
 go for the top chart
 rock on with all your heart
 rock on, stay up, go
 tell me what's going on
 in this crazy world
 man woman child boy girl
 insane to the pain
 love music power pain
 be what you gotta do
 get the knowing attitude
 cos this is a test
 that we suggest
 be your best!
 cos this is a test!
 this is... a test!
 
 cos we all know who is the real victim
 society does not want them picked on
 labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt,
 don't miss your boot and kicked him
 faceless in the morning in their urban plight
 felt like a symbol with every situation
 any of these schools are already overcrowded
 project nation, more inflation
 better your damn situation
 but how can you better your situation
 if you have no occupation?
 terrorists said, '???'
 see how many different schools you can enter us
 i'll tell you in the pit, that life's a bitch
 the world's all upset, i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch
 you can keep to your damned city
 well it's a damn pity
	  
	  Ministry  -  The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste  -  1989
 
 
				    Thieves
 
 thieves, thieves and liars, murderers
 hypocrites and bastards and lechers
 
 hey, thanks for nothing!
 morals in the dust
 two-faced bastards and syncophants
 no trust
 
 fuckers!
 thieves!  fuckers!
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, we don't know
 who started it?  who started it?
					(which side are they...)
 who started abandoning/abolishing hate?
					((from) which side of their mouth do
					you suppose that it came)
 who started it?  who started it?
 who started affecting freedom?
					(which side of the grass is greener)
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, we don't know
 you're like a great big fucking cock,
 just waiting to get squeezed!
 
 breathe, forfeit erection!             (free from the erection)
 toxic our injection                    (toxical injection)
 geriatric fuck-fest
 with scintillating lies                (we still believe in lies)
 
 fuckers!
 thieves!  fuckers!
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, we don't know
 who started it?  who started it?
					(which side are they...)
 who started the fight between color and hate?
					((from) which side of their mouth do
					you suppose that it came)
 who started it?  who started it?
 who started affecting freedom?
					(which side of the grass is greener)
 inside, outside, which side, you don't know
 my side, your side, their side, no one knows
 you're like a great big hit of acid,
 waiting to be taken!
 
 
				 Burning Inside
 
 will these dreams still follow me
 when the dark comes, curing time       (of a god and his cruelty)
					(of the dog star's cruelty)
 can't you see it up in the sky
 as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
 you never had the answers
 and now you tell me the facts are lies
 i really couldn't be bothered with you
 get out of my face and watch me die
 burning inside!  burning inside!
 
 absolution and a frozen rule           (... room)
 all the dreams of men below
 i try to grab it but the touch is hot
 the mirror collects it, but the image can not
					(the mirror collapses, but the image
					does not)
 i'm scared of the darkness and the light
 i scare myself because i know i'm right
 i see the evil and the savagery        (i see the evil in your savage eye)
 as it cuts right through the sky
 burning inside!  burning inside!
 
 call me the mantra with a blade in his skin    (calming...)
 holding demons within
 i feel the pain as we start to decay
 the lesson never fades away
 don't need no shadows, turn them away
					(too little shadows, turning away)
 become a man through the window pane   (you throw...)
 another slave and a victim of fate     (an addiction to fate)
 another lesson in hate
 burning inside!  burning inside!
 
 
				 Never Believe
 
 is anybody here?
 is everybody here?
 the service is about to begin!
 
 i make my self from the fire insidious
 (instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels)
 i'll make dust of the whole damned world
 i'll make hovels for all the worms
 i'll raise my hands up to face these idiot bastards
 
 me and cellmate have lost again for ever
 the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...'
 i want so much to remove your past
 and deliver your now-rotting flesh from evil
 
 grab his giant head
 grab his giant head
 grab his giant head
 grab his giant head
 
 but i'm only allowed to touch what i know
 but all that i know are hypocrites
 liars and witches burning, with anger, these human beings
	(violent and wicked and burning with anger these human beings)
	(liars and witches who burn in the name of human beings)
 
 you will never believe
 never believe
 
 we haven't much time left
 
 evening will come
 and with it the equivalent
 of those devil animals                 (of the devil's animals)
 with fear to come
 they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill
 they ask, curse at us, and we smile
 caught in conviction
 a crowd of senseless individuals
 will go further than both love and greed
 and thinking of salvation for future beings
	(as the clear salvation for future beings)
 
 you will never believe
 never believe
 
 
				 Cannibal Song
 
 dehumanize
 lobotomize
 thrown into a cell
 swallow your pride
 and an infant mind
 
 thrown into a cell
 a punishment fit
 for a crippled mind
 don't do that to me
 criminals, sodomites are laughing at me
 
 life is hell
 forever fighting
 our deficient minds
 we're all left alone and poisoned
 a sickening trap
 a sight worth seeing
 
 dehumanize
 lobotomize
 thrown into a cell
 swallow your pride
 and an infant mind
 
 don't do that to me
 don't do that to me
 force-fed the others                   (force breaks our back)
 they preserve fearfully                (time preserves, fearfully)
 
 you know what i said
 hideous and strange
 thrown into a cell
 a punishment fit
 for a crippled mind
 
 
				    Breathe
 
 breathe!
 
 cold burning movement with senseless denial
	(corporate causes with self-served denial)
 the raping of the land
 the last                               (at last)
 the last malfunction
 they never learned to breathe
 
 breathe!
 
 rusted syringes and half-thought disposal
 a burial at sea
 waste want graveyard
 swimming in disease
 
 breathe!
 
 this is the world
 it's not working
 this is this earth
 
 breathe!  breathe, you fucker!
 
 children, gasping, the second hand there
 death and desperation
 we've got to cut the lies with truth
 we pray
 
 breathe!
 
 this is the world
 the clock's ticking
 is this this earth?
 
 breathe!  breathe, you fucker!
 
 hope springs eternal from wistful conviction
	(hope springs eternal when paired with conviction)
 action mistaken for wisdom is made
	(action mistaken for wisdom is plain)
 all things concerning the true contradiction
	(all things concerned, it's the true contradiction)
 the world is insane
 
 breathe!
 
 this is the world
 it's got no future
 is this this earth?
 
 breathe!  breathe, you fucker!
 
 
				    So What
 
    'you have had all that money can give you, but that wasn't
    enough.  you became a thrill-seeker.  kill for the thrill.
    (assassin.)  this thrill-seeking became the one great thing in
    your life, planning  one thrill on another until the murder.  kill
    for the love of killing.  (guilty.)  kill for the thrill.  the
    thrill-seeker comes from all walks of life.  he comes from the
    home, the home where the parents are too busy to treat their
    children with respect.'
 
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 scum suckers!  debility divulged!      (you try to take too much)
					(depravity debauched)
 anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics
 savage scourge supply and sanctify     (cervix scars...)
 so what?  so what?
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 you said it!
 sedatives supplied become laxatives
 my eyes shit out lies
 i only kill to know i'm alive
 so what?  so what?
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 
    'kill for the thrill.  (assassin.)  some people think newspapers
    exaggerate juvenile crime.  all that is confined mostly to the
    large cities; juvenile delinquency is underlined.  thus parents
    think something is going wrong with the environment.  adults
    create the world, children live it.  juvenile delinquency is
    always rooted in adult delinquency.  and in this process, parents
    play the key role when children grow up among adults who refuse
    to recognize anything that is fine and good, or worthy of
    respect.'
 
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 so what, it's your problem to learn to live with
 destroy us, or make us saints
 we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late
 a screaming headache on the promised age       (proudest date)
						(proud estate)
 killing time is appropriate
 to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say
 so what?  so what?
 die!  die!  die!  die!
 
 die!
 now that i know what is right          (it's like)
 i'll kill them all if i like
 i'm a time bomb inside
 no one listens to reason,
 it's too late and i'm ready to fight!
 so what?  now i'm ready to fight!
 
 
				      Test
 
 yo!  this is a test
 
 you say this one, i say that
 you say this one, i say that
 you say this one, i say that
 you say this one, i say that
 but i'm not with that
 so step back from this man
 cos i won't be held back
 so don't try to fight or piss me off
	(so don't fight or kiss or piss me off)
 cos i'm not soft or weak
 running down in the maze of the day
 this is a new phase
 don't be commercial or sell out
 or get the hell out of this business
 but i won't be caught in that net of suckers
 and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble
 society probably wants me to give up
 society probably wants me to give up
 as i live up to be my best
 in a test
 a fight for death
 as i fight for my very last breath
 and etc.
 and etc.
 gotta be strong
 but wait a minute
 now could i be better
 now could i be better
 well only i know
 well what about you
 or do you have a clue
 could've, would've, should've - it's too late
 could've, would've, should've - it's too late
 why you waiting, why you sit there, move!
	(why you waiting, hey don't sit there, move!)
 be your best!
 
 wake up, make up your mind
 seek the knowledge you will find
 be your own person
 wait for all the weak
 cos they make the people level
 and with you make a team
 so wait and be your best
 cos this is a test
 go for the top chart
 rock on with all your heart
 rock on, stay up, go
 tell me what's going on
 in this crazy world
 man woman child boy girl
 insane to the pain
 love music power pain
 be what you gotta do
 get the knowing attitude
 cos this is a test
 that we suggest
 be your best!
 cos this is a test!
 this is... a test!
 
 cos we all know who is the real victim
 society does not want them picked on
 labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt,
 don't miss your boot and kicked him
 faceless in the morning in their urban plight
 felt like a symbol with every situation
 any of these schools are already overcrowded
 project nation, more inflation
 better your damn situation
 but how can you better your situation
 if you have no occupation?
 terrorists said, '???'
 see how many different schools you can enter us
 i'll tell you in the pit, that life's a bitch
 the world's all upset, i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch
 you can keep to your damned city
 well it's a damn pity
 go
