Napalm Death
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Diatribes - 1995
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1. Greed Killing
2. Glimpse into Genocide
3. Ripe for the Breaking
4. Cursed to Crawl
5. Cold Forgiveness
6. My Own Worst Enemy
7. Just Rewards
8. Dogma
9. Take the Strain
10. Diatribes
11. Placate, Sedate, Eradicate
12. Corrosive Elements
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1. Greed Killing
The wrong time, the wrong place
Our smiling face of distrust
Buried, the sand deep in all our hands
Prepared ourselves for the fall
The greed killing!
Instinct to mistrust
Instinct - the lust
Their butchery of feelings
Geared for the greed killing
The greed killing!
Not now, then when?
Not now, then when?
When? (x4)
The lust denies the need (x5)
Existence is the steady flow,
The moulded image grows
No care, no faith in what you are
The pressure builds right from the start
Could it be just sour grapes?
Or have we failed to fit their shape?
Itīs always give, and never take
How much more can we give?
How much more can we take?
2. Glimpse into Genocide
lindness leading
Which one of me is real?
Through corridors of uncertainty - a force without form
Iīve dug a hole so deep
Full of the shit of compromise
For once canīt I keep
Pain on the outside
Adapt
Take on release
Others
Thoughts infringed
Adapt
Take on release
A life-
On peace syringed
A glimpse into genocide
My own emotions, a million strong
A heart so full of emptiness
3. Ripe for the Breaking
...You werenīt born with the world falling at your feet
The path is long sad agonizing being dragged on your knees
...and the silver spoon in your mouth tastes spoilt with rust
When all that glitters isnīt gold and fortunes turn to dust
Youīre prime for the raping
And when you donīt ponder to meet the agenda
Scavengers start to gather
Perverse visionaries taste the father
The just rewards in controlled rebellion
Tossed and probed like a gristly peace of meat
Jock, stock and barrel slave
You just donīt contradict big brother
Heīs got the right to push you under
...and they pledge you the earth, then pull you six feet down,
And youīre branded with the stigma, unusable dropouts
...and with inspiration savaged, you take the final bow,
The creative demonner shattered into a million pieces
Youīre ripe for the breaking
4. Cursed to Crawl
A fragile peace that exists inside
A frame so shallow
So narrow-minded
An open wound
We run inside
A raging turmoil
Helplessness confides...
Cursed to crawl
For my pale and bleeding heart
Cursed to crawl
Pale and bleeding
Enter this sphere
Commonplace, borderline
Between my rage
Between our hate
Demo our mistakes
Fixation blinds
The pain of knowing
The truth beyond...
(repeat chorus x2)
Unprepared
A generous display
Perhaps a replay
Self-inflicted
Reduced to nothing
My piece of mind seduced
Unworthiness
The scars never heal...
(repeat chorus)
5. Cold Forgiveness
25 years severed
Take it and like it
Feel like thereīs nothing more
End of story
Thirsty, despised
Real love destroys
Hungry for anger
Hungry for... anger
The face behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
Race against time
Collapse
Fall in line
Nothing is sacred
Thirsty, despised
Real love destroys
Hungry for anger
Hungry for... anger
The face behind the face
Cold forgiveness meant not for me
6. My Own Worst Enemy
Played out, wide off the mark
Genie develops
Skin to fiction
More then in a world of fact
My own worst enemy
My own worst enemy
Lifes feel treachery
My own worst enemy
Dams of emotion build
A dull and turbid scream
Cloudlike veils of black
In fungles of hopes oppressed
(repeat chorus)
So many times,
For no reason
So many promised punches
For what reason?
Ceaseless decay
Parallel obscene and flagreaf
Ceaseless decay
Restrained my mind cells
So many times,
For no reason
So many promised punches
For what reason?
Ceaseless decay
Parallel obscene and flagreaf
Ceaseless decay
Restrained my mind cells
(repeat verses 3 & 4)
(repeat verse 1 and chorus)
7. Just Rewards
I lived for the moment
I grabbed hold and I didnīt relent
(the) skin of my teeth
Holds me longer
And now I come to claim my just rewards
Face down! ground down with no recourse
And now I come to claim my just rewards
The spells of the toils are spent
Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?
If the face fits, wear it
Faces lit while heart and soul slopes on
Scraping through - just rewards!
Dig the dirt - just rewards!
Hold your ground - just rewards!
Being sucked down - just rewards!
Where is the right place?
Where is the right place, right time?
When you lay down on your own law
You swim against the sunctimenious tides
Down not our - just rewards!
Looping tracks - just rewards!
Stunted growth - just rewards!
Dwindling hope - just rewards!
8. Dogma
Innocence-
A painful reminiscence
Of what was not
And will never be
Meant not for me
An unjust war
On the futile
Bludgeaning my affection (wide open)
Cries of overkill
Scraps of memories
Flung from our masterīs table
A plan Iīm sure to disable
Allegiance to none other
Bludgeaning my affection (wide open)
Cries of overkill
Regenerate a healing cathersis
That bursts, meaningless
Regenerate a healing cathersis
That bursts, meaningless
Gracefull - a selfish will
The chilling thrill
A play on the nerves to end īall servesī
As ponnace
To a manīs drying tear
We fear hot deny ourselves
9. Take the Strain
Take the strain! Can you take it?
Take the strain! Or even fake it?
Take the strain! Arenīt we lucky
Take the strain! To be breathing!
Take the strain!
Are you the man in the next bed
Without the tubes, without the life support?
Maybe the man whose pockets weigh you down
Take the strain! Do you wear strife
Take the strain! Like a clown?
Take the strain! Or accumulate
Take the strain! With a frown?
Take the strain!
Are you the animal
That escapes the snares and traps?
Beckoning so quarry scars, and the hunterīs crown
We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack
The goals they set slip the graps - slip our grasp!
Chasing tails without the basic facts
Choose full pain, voilate, make the grade
Text wires frey, electro-brain, take the strain!
We were taught to follow leaders - follow leaders!
Never to challenge the singular pack
The goals they set slip the graps - slip our grasp!
Chasing tails without the basic facts
10. Diatribes
ite the bit, scream till youīre blue in the face
Rice pipe dreams of pession revolution?
Feet soldiers
With weapons of placards and bonners
How will they stop the ret?
No standing to reason
īcouse season is treason
It doesnīt seem feasible
Lie down
And cry all you can
The machine sells over you
It just doesnīt feasible - no!
Black face to next - try pleading to sifinity
Hands up, beat in, shattering the pursive dream
But is it right to tolerate this fucked democratic process?
Shattering the pursive dream
Is it īcause we like to hear the sound of our own voice?
Big-hearted diatribes, just like my dilemma
Time to return compliments, shattering the pursive dream?
11. Placate, Sedate, Eradicate
Lead the burden across my shoulders
Pour the effiment on thick
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Am I worthy to carry the weight?
Wage a war on my prone feelings
Annesthetised and numb
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Strangely calm when I should be enraged
Placate, sedate
Placate, sedate
Eradicate
Donīt befriend the silver scream
As long as others face firing lines
Reclise, relax take it in your stride
Be the voyeur
Tamed by rabid ontectuiners
Engressed is rent life hell
Placate, sedate, eradicate
Only observing - Iīm exempt
12. Corrosive Elements
Staying on an even keel
Keeping a gauge
Sanity hangs in the balance
(I) could go either way
Cerebral half life
The darkest summer days
My pressure defences melting away
īCause I canīt level this brimming, seathing dread
My pressure defences melting away
With anxiety Iīm burning!
Stripping down to the rare
Corrosive elements inducing
Corrosive elements that can being
Corrosive elements inducing
Corrosive elements that can being
Corrosive elements - joy toxin
Corrosive elements - please cleanse me!
Corrosive elements - joy toxin
Corrosive elements - please cleanse me!
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