Clawfinger

Deaf Dumb Blind - 1993

1. Nigger
2. The Truth
3. Rosegrove
4. Donīt get Me Wrong
5. I Need You
6. Catch Me
7. Warfair
8. Wonderful World
9. Sad To See Your Sorrow
10. I Donīt Care



1. Nigger


goddamn my man you see I canīt understand
why you wanna say nigger to your brother man
talking black pride then you call yourself a nigger
donīt bring yourself down cos it just donīt figure
take a look at yourself and your history
you donīt look like a goddamn nigger to me
itīs a negative word and the white man made it
gave you a name to dominate and trade it
making blood money of his very own race man
and all of this because the colour of your face man

Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger

placed and educated in a neighbourhood of crime
taught from the beginning that you werenīt worth time
liquor store and gun store next to one another
with only one purpose so you all kill each other
leaving one less problem to worry about
thatīs the way they do it this is how it turns out
and justice for all with the American government
I wanna know where all the goddamn money went
we didnīt see it and it didnīt do no good
I guess you couldnīt give a fuck about a black neighbourhood

Nigger, Nigger, Nigger, Nigger
Nigger Youīre the real niggers, Youīre the real niggers
Youīre the real niggers, Youīre the real niggers

thereīs always gonna be fanatical minorities
the ku klux klan and fucked up authorities
conservative cunts and religious preachers
I donīt care cos they ainīt our teachers
living a life they say is free from sin
then they judge another person by the colour of their skin
I feel ashamed of myself Iīm a white human being
surrounded by suckers afraid to be seeing
there ainīt such a thing called superior race
and there ainīt nothing special ībout the colour of your face
youīve got a one way ticket to the end of the street
the pressure is on so feel the heat
media pollution is a very bad solution
hypocritical hype is your only contribution
so leave us alone and give your brothers some space
cos youīre a lousy contribution to the human race

Nigger, Nigger, ....



2. The Truth


speak the truth donīt you dare lie to me
Iīve seen it all before the way you disagree
the way you always attack all the things that you say
the way you turn your back and then you walk away
shut your mouth and open up your eyes
you better take your time and try to realize
that no-oneīs free from sin and when I look at you
I scream within WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
you raise yourself up to a higher degree and look down in disgust at our
misery
youīre no better than your enemy
but itīs easy to hate what you just canīt be
donīt deny the fact that youīre a mortal man
you canīt escape from death when itīs close at hand
donīt sit upon a pedestal and raise your voice
if youīre too deaf to listen to the peopleīs choice

truth, tell me the truth, the truth motherfucker
tell me the truth, tell me the truth, tell me the truth
the truth you sucker

you play us out and take us all for fools
but I never understood who even made the rules
Iīll make my stand against supremacy
cos hypocritical governments threaten me
I know you ainīt blind and I know youīre aware
but you egoīs too big for you to even care
the doors are wide open but your eyes are closed
youīre unable to look any further than your nose
you open your mouth and all I hear is lies
you keep spreading your message that I despise
because the game youīre playing is so easy to see
itīs just another repeat of our history
you talk about peace itīs a very strong word
itīs always being said but itīs never been heard
hi-tech weapons are here to reassure it
but Iīve never seen a time when theyīve done shit for it

Truth...

kick it to me now cos I just canīt figure
take a small mistake and make a small one bigger
equalityīs a word have you ever even heard it
I guess not and you donīt deserve it
turning your backs on the problems that surface
I get a feeling that youīre doing it on purpose
your mind is SLIME so please resign
you canīt control your own life donīt try to rule mine

Truth...



3. Rosegrove


ight from the start you know you put me in the dirt
I never even got a chance to get away
I take all the crap from your drool attack
the years fly by and I get nothing to say
you expect me to be happy and to be satisfied
with the offer that you once had to give
you donīt try to encourage anybody to develope
thatīs not the way that I want to live
do this
do that
come here
you twat

Iīm still here although I hate it
I wonder why I even care about a place like this
I donīt know if I can take it
Iīve had it up to here with your shit and your piss

Iīve heard so much shit from the people I hate
that I really couldnīt give a fuck
Iīve been down in the shit for so goddamn long
that everything looks like up
do this
do that
come here
you twat

Iīm still here...

you see Iīm sick and tired of being tied to the ground
my lungs they were made to shout
Iīm stuck in the middle of a rosegrove maze
and I canīt seem to find my way out
do this
do that
come here
you twat

Iīm still here...



4. Donīt get Me Wrong


I know you know I know you know
what is the truth what is the truth who knows
you know she knows they know we know
what is the truth what is the truth who knows
I do do you will you wonīt you
what is the truth what is the truth to you
will you wonīt you do you donīt you
what is a lie give it a try wonīt you

I know nothing you donīt know
Donīt get me wrong donīt get me wrong
Donīt get me

love me shove me kiss me hug me
what is my love what is my love tell me
fuck me kick me suck me hit me
what is a fuck what is a fuck tell me
take it shake it bend it break it
what is my life what is my life take it
thrill me kill me fill me make it
what is the truth what is the truth fake it
see me hear me be me fear me
what is the truth what is the truth near me
school me fool me rule me drool me
what is the truth what is the truth fool me
can you canīt you do you donīt you
hear my reply donīt ask me why will you
help me leave me feed me bleed me
need me to lie what is a lie tell me

I know nothing...

I know you know I know you know
what is the truth what is the truth who knows
he knows she knows they know we know
what is the truth what is the truth who knows
I do do you will you wonīt you
what is the truth what is the truth to you
will you wonīt you do you donīt you
what is a lie give it a try wonīt you

I know nothing...



5. I Need You


all my disillusions are filling up my head
and all of my frustrations are lying in your bed
all my explanations just donīt make any sense
leave me be babe canīt you see the tensions too immense
you just canīt understand me so you drag me to the ground
but I donīt hear a single word
you just canīt bring me down
so donīt you dare to criticize the way I think and live
all you get is what Iīve got and what I want to give

I love you I hate you I kiss you I rape you
I cheat and deceive you I leave you
I love you I hate you I kiss you I rape you
I cheat and deceive you but I need you

you say you really need me and then you close the door
you say you want to leave me and then you beg for more
well I ainīt sentimental so donīt try to set a trap
cos every time you hug me you stab me in the back
if you want my body then just make love to my mind
and donīt you try to hurt me cos I ainīt the hurting kind
I told you that I loved you but you didnīt care at all
I needed you to touch me but instead you crushed my balls

I love you...

I know I said I need you but that was just a lie
you asked me if I loved you but you never asked me why
so now youīve got your answer and I hope youīre satisfied
and donīt you dare to tell me that you ever even tried
thereīs nothing I can give you that you ainīt already got
cos even when youīve got it all you say that I forgot
to give you all my loving and to give you all my time
there ainīt enough for the both of us and right now I want mine

I love you...



6. Catch Me


Iīve been standing on the edge of the roof looking down
Iīve been looking at the people that are gathering around
Iīve been here for an hour or maybe even more
just looking at the people that Iīve never seen before
stupid little faces are all I can see
those silly little suckers are all laughing at me
no wills cheap thrills youīre puppets to the master
your only satisfaction is my lonely disaster
you learned how to creep and you learned how to crawl
but you never really learned anything at all
when I was a boy everything was just fine
I learned how to talk and how to walk in line
I had to learn the rules that build our society
but I could never understand it didnīt mean shit to me
everybody always told me I was out of my mind
but I never did kiss anybodyīs behind
Iīm a lot older and I guess I should know
but Iīm standing on the roof just watching the show
standing on the edge and my step belongs to me
but Iīm telling you all I wonīt miss what I see

one foot over thereīs no time to turn around
both feet are over and Iīm heading for the ground
Iīm flying in the air and I can feel the cool breeze
the people on the pavement have gone into a freeze
no space no time itīs like walking on the moon
my heart is still beating but it wonīt be soon
I can hear myself scream when I hit the street
I canīt feel a thing from my head to my feet
I told you I would do it and I didnīt even cry
I feel more alive dead than when I was alive



7. Warfair


do you know how it feels to be down in the dirt
with a bullet in your breast and blood on your shirt
lying in a bloodpool down in a pit
covered with the corpse and the blood and the shit
how does it feel to have a gun to your head
when you know that youīd be much better off dead
looking right down through the barrel of a gun
donīt try to tell me that you think itīs fun
praying for your mercy donīt say you see the light
what difference does it make if the good lordīs right
at the end of a war the survivors are none
bīcos war is a loss a war canīt be won
youīre just another soldier and youīre doing the dying
youīre a symbol of a nation so boy stop crying
hero of a war such a man so brave
a medalīs worth nothing when youīre lying in your grave

do you know the pain
marching into history marching into war
can you feel the shame
marching into misery you function as a whore

5 oīclock in the morning and they shout out your name
but they donīt really care cos you all look the same
now this is the army and we train to kill
our job is to give you that fighting will
so get off your knees and stand straight like a man
do I have to tell you twice to make you understand
freedom has a price and that price is blood
so chase the motherfucker right down in the mud

Do you know...

ignore all your feelings just go all the way
if you donīt then death is the price you have to pay
this ainīt peace and love no man this is war
donīt even dare to ask what youīre fighting for
just search and destroy never question a lie
you donīt want to bite the bullet boy you donīt want to die
donīt try to tell me that you couldnīt kill a man
thatīs a load of fucking bullshit boy I know you can

do you know...



8. Wonderful World


thereīs a peddler a pusher standing on the corner
thereīs a junkie on the street with some crack to warm her
down and out in the city sheīs working as a hooker
so the system took the freedom to overlook her
she donīt exist thatīs made her feel the hate
sheīs just a victim of the world that we create
she didnīt have a chance man she didnīt wanna do it
but she never got the choice so she just said screw it
she took it to the bottom just trying it all
knowing that nobody even cared at all
donīt deny her needs take a look at yourself
before you start talking ībout anybody else

such a wonderful world such a wonderful world

thereīs a lower class family theyīre living in a vice
you know it ainīt too bad but it sure ainīt nice
four kids in a flat that was built for two
cockroaches on the floor so what they gonna do
rats in the cellar no water in the tap
the kids of today are growing up with this crap
a sweet loving mother she does everything she can
a father with a will heīs a fighting man
heīs lost his job and all the moneyīs been spent
so tell me anybody whoīs gonna pay the rent
and youīre all talking ībout equality
this whole fucking world is insanity

such a wonderful world... wonderful wonderful

meanwhile in a suburb on some fancy boulevard
thereīs a couple in a house with a dog on guard
3 cars in the garage they keep everything inside
afraid of the violence afraid to go outside
money ainīt funny if youīre afraid to use it
you grip it too hard when youīre afraid to lose it
working as a lawyer in some upperclass area
alone at home his wife goes into hysteria
a gun under her pillow too tense to relax
too rich to face reality too scared to face the facts
they stick to what they got and they try to make it pretty
hiding from the life thatīs going on down in the city

Such a wonderful world...



9. Sad To See Your Sorrow


I want to touch you but I donīt posess the power
it turns me inside out to feel the pain of your distress
you push the needle deeper in your arm for every hour
I know youīre life was beautiful but now itīs turned into a mess
Iīve tried to understand you but the thought seems so unreal
that a person would forsake herself and try to break herself with pain
just like a child youīre so innocent and you long so much to feel
but instead you push the needle deeper down your vein

Sad so see you sad to see your sorrow

you know Iīve seen you in so many different ways
the reflections of your agony are scarred upon your face
you warm the spoon just to numb yourself from much much better days
and you hope that someone else is there who might want to take your place
every time you scream I hear you though you scream so silent
and youīre longing for your baby child to be in a much better place
so addicted to your loneliness full of self destructive violence
you still try to love your child and see the smile upon its face

sad to see you sad to see your sorrow...

take away the pain and take away the sorrow
I cry in silence hoping youīll come through
take away the pain you could be dead tomorrow
I wish that I could help you but thereīs nothing I can do
I WISH THAT I COULD HELP YOU BUT THEREīS NOTHING I CAN DO
I feel as if Iīm by your side even though youīre far away from here
the poison mingles with your blood and slowly satisfies you
but what I wonder most of all is if you really want to disappear
you keep struggling with emotions mixed inside you
please donīt disappear you know too many people love you
but you see youīre still the only one that can ever dry your tears
so donīt rely on anyone below or up above you
you better grab your life and then get a grip before it disappears

sad to see you sad to see your sorrow



10. I Donīt Care


youīre all so fucking hostile youīre all so fucking mean
with your triple K complexion screaming keep our country clean
with your triple K superior picknick and your burning cross parade
youīre all dressed up in white boys youīre real American made
hypocrite thatīs the name you wear
but I really donīt care what you say
no bullshit youīre so full of it
it comes out of your mouth every day

I donīt care what you say I donīt care what you say

you want to be somebody special so you take it to the extreme
waste a jew a black or two and wipe their race out clean
you practice on a target but your gunīs still full of lead
you hunt them down ten on one and you aim to hit the head
repulsive you really make me hate all the things you deny and you fake
primitive you show no respect for all the lives you take and forsake

I donīt care...

your mouths are so enormous and your dicks are just so small
youīre just to dumb to realize you ainīt got no brains at all
there ainīt nothing in your deadheads that I could ever even understand
and youīve still got the guts to tell us all we should join the klan
I truly believe youīre deaf dumb and blind
I believe youīre unable to look
I truly believe youīre really out of your mind
take a look in the history book

I donīt care...


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