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A Time to Die

Touch the blade of fear
Washed in the river of tears
Of you and me
Now you've seen it all
It's time to take your soul
Into eternity yourself to keep
Bring on the demons of the night
Take the hand that casts no shadow
The hand of fate, the hand of time
A time to heal
A time to purify
A time to die

Push at the open door
To the unpromised land, the arms of pain
Await your fall
Where the blind will lead the blind
With fire damn your eyes
The master plays the master chord
Sing the chorus of the damned
Sing of salvation, sing of sorrow
Time takes a toll from every man
Time cannot feel
Time cannot glorify
The time to die

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Clear and Present Danger

You learn to run, you learn to crawl
Grab the moment by the balls
I want my horse I want my gun I want I want it all now
I'm looking for the ammunition
But I can't find anything with double vision
I was good, I kow-towed
But they never let me out
I can recall my number now
So I need chemical desire
To get up so I'm high enough
To see the other side - if I can't, how can I work it out now?

Created, degraded - I so confiscated
Invaded, tolerated - show me the price price I paid it
Educated - what a bloody waste
I'm a clear and present danger to myself

God I never thought I'd come to this
Even my dog can take the piss
I could see it from a hundred miles away
But I still stepped in it
Now I wanna get out where I came in
Not the 5th dimension you're living in
Where you sing and shout
But you never go out
Cos you don't want to lose what you've never found
So I'm a naked man
I'm in a naked land
I'd take your naked hand
But I don't wanna walk
With the naked and the dead

Created, degraded - I so confiscated
Invaded, tolerated - show me the price price I paid it
Educated - what a bloody waste
I'm a clear and present danger to myself

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Der Vaterland

Hey listen up, stand to attention
The father's a bad mother of invention
Worse than detention, badder than Latin declension
Here to talk and walk you to the bridge
Across my g-g-generation
Makes yours look like a s-s sad relation
You want me to tune to a station that plays that jam
Take a brain scan, I'm the scam, I'm the Royal scam
You can't even spread jam
Cos I've got the bread, man, in fact I even own the bread van
So go ahead, talk about your new skank, handbag, punk, funk, Jamaican skunk
And that 2 beat groove
I could play the Stairway to Heaven solo when you were two!
Now I'm supposed to be fazed, dazed and outraged
With all the cussing and fussing
From that M&M chap
Well I can say shit, ass, dick and balls too
You f***ing twat
So don't take the piss and diss me
Show me some respect and miss me
Tell me you need to be young and black to rap?
Well, I'm nearly 50 and fat so screw that!

Hey all the young dudes
Living my life over
Boogaloo dudes
We're only rock and rollers

Hey, used to be I was a sex machine too
Before you turned me into the not-so-lean money machine that feeds you
Hay maker to the piss-takers, easy A-grading
Sex and tex-mexed, disaffected, injected, pre-selected and perfected
You gotta new record - I broke it
Gotta new pipe - I smoked it
Got wood - I solid-oaked it
So tell me when you can buy what you can afford like me
Don't need to drive a Ford like me
Walk, talk and pork the sword like me
Play off 24 like me
And don't try to appease my heebie jeebies
With the Micky D's freebies and MTV's
Wake up please and smell the coffee, read the tea leaves

Hey all the young dudes
I'm watching you
Living my life over
Boogaloo dudes
Me and you
We're all just rock and rollers

Break: Hey you all telling me this, telling me that
Telling me cramming a lot of words
Into a sentence is where it's at
Can't make up my mind if it's you talking
Or I'm at the race track
And what's that about lyrical gansters
People called Biggy and Tupac
What's that - 4 cans short of a 6 pack?
And something about female dogs getting smacked?
Well I don't need to call myself a nigger
To be bigger than Biggy or get jiggy jiggy
With an ass and shaky titties
Can Biggy take you to the bridge?
Can Biggy take you to the bridge?

3. I see you watching Ozzy on the MTV
I see you watching Ozzy on the MTV
You want money for nothing but chicks and nothing come free
And Ozzy doesn't bite bats no more and try to kill himself
And Alice's dead babies have grown up
Just like you - taking things off my shelf
And me, I don't smoke, I only mow grass
Row fast, blow my abs out
Wrestling with my jeans trying to get my ass out
Buying from the catalogues
Watching travelogues
Going to Prague and Tallin with my friends to check the candy floss
It's my birthday, it's my birthday
Don't want a hug or "love you daddy" on a mug
I wanna Harley
I wanna Harley
I wanna fit inside the pants I used to wear
When I went to parties
I'm the balls of the dog
But you can't admit it
If it's too hard to swallow
Spit it
You want me to fill - your bucket
You can't get a girl - get lucky
You think I'm a complete - muppet
You want more money - f**k it

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Into my Head

Need somewhere to go
Somewhere that I can be
A place that I belong
Somewhere that I am free
Where no one knows my name
No one knows my face
Where I don't really care
It's all I need...it's all I need

Not an easy way to live
But it's an easy way out
To where I take what I can give
Where no one hears me shout
And I can't seem to help myself
Metal shining on my shelf

Calls my name and helps me
Make my escape
Into my head

Lying wide-awake
Blinded by the night
Don't know who I am
Don't care if it's right
Afraid of losing me
Afraid that I might be
I don't really care
It's all I need

Not an easy way to live
But it's an easy way out
To where I take what I can give
Where no one hears me shout
And if I had my time again
I'd drop before I heard the pin
Take control
And let me explode
Into my head

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Shot by both Sides

This and that, they must be the same
What is legal and what is real
What I'm given to understand
Is exactly what I steal

I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I worked my way into the heart of the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd

Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come
To a secret understanding

New offences always in my nerves
They'll be taking my time by force
They all sound the same when they scream
As a matter of course

I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd
I worked my way into the heart of the crowd
I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd

Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come
To a secret understanding

Why are you so edgy, kid?
Asks the man with the voice
One thing follows another
You live, you learn
You have no choice

I wormed my way into the heart of the crowd

I worked my way into the heart of the crowd I was shocked to find what was allowed
I didn't lose myself in the crowd

Shot by both sides
On the run to the outside of everything
Shot by both sides
They must have come
To a secret understanding

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Hell Freezes

Hide your children, run to the hills
There's evil in the air
Gods of the dark cast no shadow
That no one might see the evil there
Call your warriors, sound the battle drum
Let the arrows fly
Day of reckoning
Kill or be killed
Time to do or to die
No surrender, no surrender til

Hell freezes
Hell bleeds us
Hell leaves us
Damned in the fire
Down on our knees

Land of pestilence
Land of starvation
Our fields an open sore
Bodies pray the god of the sun
Drying out the skin and bone
Tear down the temple
Burn the land of our
Fathers of the soil
From the ashes of these dying embers
Will come hearts of fire
Stay alive
No surrender till

Hell freezes
Hell bleeds us
Hell leaves us
Damned in the fire
Down on our knees

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Ziggy Stardust

iggy played guitar jamming good with Weird and Gilly
and the spiders from Mars
He played it left hand, but he played it too far
Became the special man
And we were Ziggy's band
Now Ziggy really sang
Screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo
Like some cat from Japan
He could lick em whilst smiling
He could leave them to hang
Came on so loaded man
Well hung and snow white tan
Now where were the spiders
While the flies tried to break our balls
Just the beer light to guide us
So we bitched about his fans, should we break his sweet hands?

Now Ziggy played for time
Jiving us that we were voodoo
The kids were just crass
He was the nazz with God given ass
He took it all too far, but boy he could play guitar
Making love to his ego Ziggy sucked up into his mind
Like a leper messiah
When the kids had killed the man
I had to break up the band

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Animal Town

There's an animal that's hard to describe
It's got fur and it's got perfect teeth and blue eyes
And it's got chemicals with complicated names
That travel up my nose and down to my thighs
I'd like to stroke it up and down
But it's blue eyes are looking round
For bigger mammals who've got horns and facial hair
Where does your thirst go
With no place at the watering hole
When all you wanted was to drink there?
Here in animal town
Go near the water and you might drown
Here in animal town

Every day I get up
Feel like I'm ripped up in pieces
Like I'm lucky to get out alive
Ground to Kirk "beam me up"
Make me an alien species
I wanna be an animal now

There's a mineral that's hard to describe
It gives you fur and gives you horns
And gives you facial hair
Now I'm an animal cos it's just arrived
And I can roar and give the other mammals facial scares
And watch those perfect teeth and fur and legs and blue eyes
Sparkle by the water's edge under the moonlight
And let our chemicals decide on
If we walk or if we ride on
My white patches or your stripes?
Here in animal town
We're in the water but we won't drown
Here in animal town

Now every day I get up
With all the bits and the pieces
If you let me I can show you how
Kirk to bridge "beam me up"
Looks like an alien species
Has turned into an animal now

Animal town
Little animals fall down
Animal town
Here in animal town

I'm just an animal now
I'm a beast with a horn
Not like a pig or a cow
I'm just an animal now
Here in animal town

Look, we're just animals now
Going at it just like rabbits in my house
We're just animals now
Here in animal town

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Dancing with Myself

Everybody's looking for the one
She was no exception
I'm just trying to see
How to tell her it's me
I can twist and I can tango
Be someone from Hollywood
Take you to Tokyo
Or here or there but not their neighbourhood
So I'm wearing that shirt tonight
She's wearing that dress so tight
Step into overdrive - this take is live
Take is live
I'm giving her the eye eye eye
She's giving me a no go sign
I said she was everything
But she went with him
That's why I'm dancing by myself
Dancing by myself
Cos she left me on my shelf
So I just dance with myself

Dressed up and nowhere to go
What's up daddyo?
C'mon throw me a bone
Was it my cologne?
Say hi, anxiety
Chat on line and late night TV
Phone live on radio
Your friends can piss themselves and go
But here's a twist inside my tale
They screwed up and no one set bail
He told her that he was clean
She don't know where he's been
Love's easy as 1-2-3
Might be better than ecstasy
Love can bring you to your knees
But love can spread disease
That's why I'm dancing by myself
Dancing by myself
I might fall right off the shelf
So I just dance with myself

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Dadstein

Anmut sparet nicht noch Muehe
Leidenschaft nicht noch Verstand
Dass ein gutes Deutschland bluehe
Wie ein andres gutes Land

Dass die Voelker nicht erbleichen
Sondern ihre Haende reichen

Von der see bis zum Rhein
Von der see bis zum Rhein
Von der see bis zum Rhein

Und weil wir dies Land verbessern
Lieben und beschirmen wir's
Und das liebste mag's uns scheinen
So wie andern Voelkern ihrs

Dass die Voelker nicht erbleichen
Sondern ihre Haende reichen

Von der see bis zum Rhein
Von der see bis zum Rhein
Von der see bis zum Rhein

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Don't stop the Rock

Don't care about this, don't care about that
Getting attention is where it's at
Does daddy think you're good does he think I'm bad?
You gonna give him a reason to ask
Why you're dazed and you're fazed
And you're purple with haze
Cos you got yourself laid
But you don't have their name
Feels so great escaping
To a perfect noise
We could get creative
Under the girls and boys

Your mamma don't like you playing
But keep playing all night
Don't stop the rock now
Daddy don't like you staying out
But staying all night's
Just got to be right

I wanna fall down, I wanna fall down
Wanna get drunk and
shout too loud
I wanna turn it up and turn out the light
And hold you skin tight, skin tight
As we dance and get tanked
And go blank in a trance
And romance is a matter of
Dropping my pants
And getting tangled
But it's so damn good
So I'm going under
I'm a bad boy
Is it any wonder
I just play with my toys?

Your mamma don't like you playing
But keep playing all night
Don't stop the rock now
Daddy don't like you staying out
But staying all night's
Just got to be right