Singles Collection 1979 -

Killing Joke Singles Collection 1979 - Lyrics
1.Nervous System

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson


2.Wardance

Writer(s):Glover/Ferguson/Coleman/Walker

The atmosphere's strange
Out on the town
Music for pleasure
It's not music no more
Music to dance to
Music to move
This is music to march to
IT'S a war dance

A war dance

Look at graffiti
Scrawled on the wall
You know the the reason


Outside the door
You got something
Nasty in your mind
Trying to get out
IT'S a war dance

A war dance

We walk round the pitch
Honesty is sick
Try to be honest
Look what you get
The food runs short
And then the money talks
One way out
YOUR PREMONITION IS CORRECT

A war dance


3.Requiem

Writer(s):Martin Glover/Jaz Coleman/Paul Ferguson/K Walker

Not watching pretty girls
The clock keeps on ticking
He doesn't know why
He's just cattle for slaughter
Death - requiem

And the meaning of words
When they cease to function
When there's nothing to say
When will it start worrying you?
Death - requiem

Only a hint of religion
Uncensors to its false depravity
The sound of breaking glass
This is a reflection
Death - requiem


4.Follow The Leaders

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

Come inside boy - they call this fun!
(Music to please the adolescent)
Taking the easy way out again
Part of the process - same old story
Follow the leader
(look at the leader)

You just condone all that you mean
Play time doesn't last forever
Shouting about it taking the bait
Walking again in the same direction
Follow the leader
(look at the leader)

Time wore on and then you noticed
The ground starts to tremble beneath your feet
Man killed man and blood was shed (yawn!)
And the gasps of relief at human nature like
Follow the leader
(look at the leader)


5.Empire Song

Writer(s):Glover/Coleman/Ferguson/Walker

Back to square one, and the old school backfire
It's just begun, let's watch the blind eyes turning
Stains on the wall, been waiting far too long now
Nice day, blue sky, I watch them shrug their shoulders
Tighten the grip (getting tighter)
Now see the ball is rolling
We take delight, it's been a long wait for this moment.

Back to square one, another empire backfire
Back to square one, another empire backfire

SIgn of the time, blood pressure running high now
Nowhere to dance, which channel can you turn to?
We take delight, we watch them shrug their shoulders
Let's take delight, it's been a long wait for this moment.

Back to square one (now it's my turn)
Another Empire backfire
Back to square one (now it's your turn)
And the old school backfire...


6.Chop Chop

Writer(s):Walker/Ferguson/Glover/Coleman

Take a walk to the new town, take a look around
Pretty road names pass us by, a foundation sound
They paint their walls and ceilings white to feel clean inside
Ten square miles so synchronized I could have cried

And the bodies go by barely half awake
Awaiting things to come again, nice things to come
It's such a nice environment I'm in
I wonder why I'm here and the bodies go by barely half awake.

All but the few ever notice anything at all, Oh dear
All but the few ever notice anything at all.

I've got a nice new wristwatch with a bright red strap
The second hand really moves quite fast - I'd never thought of
that
And then I pick my picture book to compensate outside
It's back to fiction once again, I could have cried.

And the bodies go by barely half awake
Awaiting things to come again, nice things to come
It's such a nice environment I'm in
I wonder why I'm here and the bodies go by barely half awake.

All but the few ever notice anything at all, Oh dear
All but the few ever notice anything at all


7.Birds Of A Feather

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

We feel so good as we flock together
So much in common
We all gather gather gather
Don't need no manifesto, just a little ink stain
Safety in numbers
Go forth and get one

Birds of a feather...flock together oh
Birds of a feather...flock together oh

We watch the boys and girls tow the line
We watch the crowd shout out for more
Sing sing sing sing your heart out
Good times ahead
Here comes a new one-
Birds of a feather

Birds of a feather...flock together oh
Birds of a feather...flock together oh

We got a flock flock

We feel so good as we flock together
So much in common
We all gather gather gather
Go out and get the best
Go for the weak one
Birds of a feather...forever...yeah

Birds of a feather...flock together oh
Birds of a feather...flock together oh
Birds of a feather...flock together oh
Birds of a feather...flock together oh

Flock flock...flock together
Flock flock...flock together
We just a
Flock flock...flock together
Flock flock...flock together
You just a
Flock flock...flock together
Flock flock...flock together
We just a
Flock flock...flock together
Flock flock...flock together
You just a
Flock flock...flock together
Flock flock...flock together
We just a
Flock flock...flock together


8.Let's All Go(To The Fire Dances)

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

On our way to the fire dances
Let's all stay on our feet so
In the market here we are then
Sing a song for sixpence oh!
Time keeps ticking - tick tick tock
Can't stop now just keep on pushing
I've got a feeling something's changing
I'm gonna find this feeling somewhere

Let's all go to the fire dances

Take the future in your hands now
Let's do this dance forever
Teacher teach me something new please
Sow the seed god speed the plough
Basic ways to simplify me
Sun is shining in your favour
Push push me till i get there
I'm gonna find the human somewhere

Turn the pages time goes backwards
Pay the piper to play your tune
You and me in a dance forever
Summer nights and music - oh!
Fill your cup and don't say maybe
Sun is shining in our favour
Let's be human - oh so human
On your way to the fire dances


9.Me Or You?

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

Is it me or is it you
And can I find the answer
There's a new beginning...whoooo
I wanna see you there
Is it me or is it you
Where my heart is calling

Shall we wake up and live
Kiss the next one you see
I told you once
So I'll tell you twice
Yes, you can come with me
then we'll share a dream
all day, all night

Is it me or is it you
And did you see the morning
There's a new beginning...whoooo
Where the fields are young
Is it me or is it you
Where my heart is always

Shall we wake up and live
Kiss the next one you see
I told you once
So I'll tell you twice
Yes, you can come with me
Then we'll share a dream
All day, all night

Is it me or is it you
Now we see the sunshine
In a new beginning...whoooo
Where our days will change
Is it me or is it you
Now we've seen the morning

Shall we wake up and live
Kiss the next one you see
Another world song...yo ho
Sitting in our hand
I told you once
So I'll tell you twice
Yes, you can come with me
then we'll share a dream
All day, all night

Is it me or you and can I find out...whoa oh
Is it me or you and can I find out...whoa oh
Is it me or you and can I find out...whoa oh


10.Eighties

Writer(s):Killing Joke

Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties
Eighties - I have to push, I prostitute myself
Eighties - I saw the whole world getting anxious
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march

And we sang
In these Eighties

Eighties - I'm sitting on a table talking ideals
Eighties - I got the best, I'll take all I can get
Eighties - Here comes the savage day
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march

And we sang
In these Eighties

Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march

Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march


11.A New Day

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

You
You wake up to a new day
Forwards
We move towards a new way oh
Come with me
Gather with your torches
Singing
Dance, my love, we're young and strong

A new day....oh, a new day
A new way...oh, a new way
Somewhere the sun shines in the east
A new day....oh, a new day

Touch me
Tell me I'm still human
and wild
We'll run until we run no more
Our bodies talk, words are lost
Hand in hand we follow
All around
A man becomes the people

A new day....oh, a new day
A new way...oh, a new way
Somewhere the sun shines in the east
A new day....oh, a new day

You
You caught me in your spell
Hypnotized
You touched me and now I'm all in
Conflict
Every day the same
Wishing
Wishing we could see the way

A new day....oh, a new day
A new way...oh, a new way
Somewhere the sun shines in the east
A new day....oh, a new day

We watch the sun rise in the east
A new day....oh, a new day
A new day....oh, a new day
A new day....oh, a new day
A new day....oh, a new day


12.Love Like Blood

Lyricist:Jeremy Coleman/Paul Ferguson/Paul Raven/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jeremy Coleman/Paul Ferguson/Paul Raven/Kevin Walker

We must play our lives like soldiers in the field
But life is short i'm running faster all the time
Strength and beauty destined to decay
So cut the rose in full bloom

'til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood

Everyday through all frustration and despair
Love and hate fight with burning hearts
'til legends live and man is god again
(and self-preservation rules the day no more)

We must dream of promised lands and fields
That never fade in season
As we move towards no end we learn to die
Red tears are shed on grey


13.Kings And Queens

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

Well take it easy
While the world goes crazy
As it's just another day
And we've all been through the mangle
And our pockets are empty
But we'll live like kings and queens
Hear the choirs of noise sing
Take a load off my mind soothe me
Live like kings and queens

Well easy sleazy
In and out and back again
Feel a power running through me
And i'm alive and kicking
I accept submission
To the pleasures of the flesh
And the joy of pain
Satisfy me satisfy
Live like kings and queens

I said: 'take it easy
'Sanity has come'
I can never undo
The wrong of the beginning
There's so many hungry
But i'm gonna turn a blind eye
'Cos i've got to live now
Rejoice and kill your heart 'cos i say...
Live like kings and queens


14.Adorations

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

Adorations

Courage and Cowards move, heroes to ecstasy
Welcomes of war and wounds, vigil and vitcory
Structures of atoms dance, sugar towards the taster,
Prey to the predator, love as we're falling down

Through light and laughter flow, to dirge and death we go,
Mindless processions move, lanterns of burning towns,
Welcome to fray and feast, bliss in all sorrows found,
Rhythms and random moves and waves of revelation.

Patterns I'm finding
As pain and joy and sorrow mingle.
Patterns we're finding
Our faces raised in adorations.

Deserts are paradise, awake to genocides.
Delight and suffering, these roles that we have found
Nourished by food we eat, hungered by waste excrete
From apes or sons of god, let every act be sacred.

Patterns I'm finding
As pain and joy and sorrow mingle.
Patterns we're finding
Our faces raised in adorations.


15.Sanity

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

All across the scenes the statues crumble
We cherished the seconds, counted the days
And people move with lines across their faces
Embracing each other with a smile

For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake

We'll remember distant times and places
We'll remember summer sun that yields
Shed our bodies heart and soul for love's sake
Civilizations wax and wane.

Inocence will fade away like Autumn
Likewise the dream of youth, the task
And we shall be at peace upon our parting
With the thoughts of loved ones in our hearts

For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake
For sanity's sake, sanity's sake, sanity's sake

So let the sunrise light up the distnat shores
And we'll remember last days of Rome again.


16.America

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker

I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!

The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America

I will buy you rich perfumes
And we will eat the finest foods
A mansion in New England
A silver dollar for every child
Where everybody has got their price
They'll sustain our way of life
You and I will fly to Rio
I'll make you feel like a millionaire

I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!

The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America

West is best and might is right
And with our allies - fight the good fight
A first class, five star enterprise
Now everybody's got to compromise
My moral code's on overload
Liberty still takes its toll
Take a look at the losers wasting in the bars
Where they cut their losses!

I can survive the rat race honey
Time is money, and money is honey, honey
My megabucks your symmetrical beauty
Together we can serve the nation - yeah!

The quality of life filled us all with pride
America
And as I watched I just cried and cried
How I love America

There were fireworks in the Gulf
There was champagne at home - How I love America
But showbiz and Hollywood still shouted out - America


17.My Love Of This Land

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker

The sun is setting in on England's green and pleasant land
AT dusk I leave the town to tear the fences down
And I ignore the voice of education sighing and crying in my
head

In the light of every dream, we're all coming home
Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land

Memories of gentlemen and cricket fade away in the hot summer
But still they carry out traditions of the past without a
meaning

In the light of every dream, we're all coming home
Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land

New towns and concrete towerblocks, inhuman as they stand
And did those feel in ancient times, or was it just our
imaginations?

In the light of every dream, we're all coming home
Lazy days and summer haze, my love of this land


18.The Beautiful Dead

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson

The crowd was one (oblivion ran deep)
A consciousness of cannon-fodder walking in its sleep
Vacant expressions (and don't look ahead)
Everybody dance with the beautiful dead I said!

All queue up and gravel for a hit
SOmeone pulls the reins then you chew at the bit
Encouraged by commercials to spend beyond my means
I laughed as it all fell apart at the seams

(Hey! Take a look at tomorrow)

But will I inherit the good green earth?
Such a lovely world

All mod-cons there was dust on the drums
My electronic beat-box got the job done
Everybody emulate the pulse of the soul
And change your clothes (to make you feel old)
Effort and sweat was a thing of the past (they said!)
Welcome to the world of the beautiful dead


19.Money Is Not Our God

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Atkins
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Atkins

Nine tenths of the law than sic
Is possesion
Life expressed in matter is a blasphemy
Success defined by aquisition stinks!
So busy trying to make a living i forgot about living
Yes i do
So busy trying to make a living i forget about life

The best things i found in life were my birthright
Green fields mean more to me than a brand new car
Will you swap your hi-fi for a clear blue sky?
Will you cash in all your shares for Gods clean air?
Is your answer yes,or no,to these painful truths?
Is your answer yes,or no,to these painful truths?

Do you grovel to your master?
Do you beg like a dog?
First things first,repeat to yourself
AHHH MONEY!, Money is not our GOD!

Mine!
The best things in life are free
Mine!
I own the beach and the blazing sunset
Mine!
I own the waves and the fresh air
Mine!
I drink the milk of the stars in this beautiful moment
Say to yourself
ALL THESE THINGS ARE MINE!

Repeat after me!
Money's not our God

Do you grovel to your master?
Do you beg like a dog?
First things first,repeat to yourself
AHHH MONEY!


20.Exorcism Live In King's Chamber, Cairo/ August 1993 Mix

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Greg Hunter
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Greg Hunter

Rise from my unconscious let it rise
Get it out get it out get it out

Behind the illusion of reality
Are forces that speak to me
We will draw them out
We will cast them out

Drink wines that foam
Watch the ugliness rise
Watch it bubble to the surface
Let it out let it rise

All the hate all the hate
I saw you
You just wanted to take a razor and cut his face until it bled
You wanted to inflict
I saw the barbed hooks penetrate deep into the side of his flesh

Get it out

Let it rise
Let it rise let it bubble to the surface

Get it out

All desires that are undeclared
Bulging eyes the animal soul begins to rise
Let it out

Get it out

Let it rise - let the images rise
Let it rise - let it bubble to the surface
Get it out - get it out - get it out now
Let it rise to the surface - let it rise - let it rise - guilt

All your guilt and the pain and the hurt you cause
All the tears in the child's face
All resentment undeclared
Let it rise
Let it rise let it bubble to the surface

Clean it up - clean it up
Cover yourself with water
Wash it away, that's right, wash it away
Wash it all away, wash away the tears


21.Millennium Cybersank Edit

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Greg Hunter
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Greg Hunter

I was born to see two thousand years
Of man's effect upon the planet
Extinction seems to be a plausible risk
Whatever happens well i'm part of all this

My life i've been waiting for this moment
All my life i've been waiting for this moment to come

Taste the salt of my tears
Take the wealth of my years
Singing in the millennium with you
Old ways don't seem to know
Singing in the millennium with you

Fire burn all our uncertainties
Water wash away impurities
Contradictions and predictions abound
Yes i believe that we can turn it around

My life i've been waiting for this moment
My life i've been waiting for this moment
All my life i've been waiting for this moment
All my life i've been waiting for this moment to come


22.Pandemonium Cybersank Edit

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Greg Hunter
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker/Martin Glover/Greg Hunter

She talks of supernatural aeons that we'll make
She says 'look behind the wave of changes' feel the future
taking shape

I can see tomorrow
I can see the world to come
I can see tomorrow
Hear the pandemonium

I ask her of her next of kin and loved ones in her care
She gestures all around her then she whispers 'everywhere
'There is no nuclear family required any more
'My parents are the village and the village is the law'

She said 'unlearn you must forget the values that you hold
'Life is not longevity and beauty is the only goal'

Cymbals that crash and pipes of pan awaken from your trance
There is no retribution here see how the heathen dance


23.Jana

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker

She hears his footsteps, he walks up the path
And when the letter drops her heart beats fast
She picks up the envelope then she turns her face away
She'll check out her results another day
Refusing to accept what they might say

Jana cry 'i've got so much to give'
Jana sigh 'i've got so much to live'
Jana's mind - positive or negative
Jana died

I watch her shiver by the fireside
From time to time she just breaks down and cries
Her cat curled in her lap and she's secure in a place that she
calls home
Flicking through postcards and brochures of rome
Dreaming of places that she'd like to go

Her friends bring her soup each day
And she takes an array of bright coloured pills
From a.z.t. to vitamin c but still she wastes away
Forcing down food but still she wastes away

Jana cry 'i've got so much to give'
Jana sigh 'i've got so much to live'
Jana cry - jana tested positive
Jana died


24.Democracy Album Mix

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker

You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will ridicule away the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)
Funny handshakes. insider dealing
Et in arcadia. arcadia ego
Backhanders and salamanders
A powerhouse that is morally
Mechula

I'm sorry democracy is changing
I'm sorry democracy is changing

I'm not a slogan or a badge
Or a cross in the ballot box
Neither values or objectives
You do not represent my deepest
Thoughts and wishes
Education in obsolete skills
Stereotyping and media projection
Industrial psychologists
Plan a campaign that is financed by
Big business

You have a choice, we are your voice
Red, blue or yellow.
We will ridicule the green
Another five lane motorway
(You'll never get a referendum anyway)


25.Loose Cannon

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker/Andy Gill
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker/Andy Gill


26.Seeing Red Edit

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker/Andy Gill
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Kevin Walker/Andy Gill

they're dropping bombs again
and they're doing it in your name
all the rational commentaries
in the papers than i read
marmalade and buttered toast
and smell of sunday roast
kiss the arse of uncle sam
oh to be an englishman

when you hear the sound of warning
when the only colour is red
red sky in the morning
everywhere i'm seeing red

dawn brings a day of hell
hours that we pawn and sell
a single magpie in the tree
one for sorrow one for me
kick it off the cliff i said
now the line fucks up my head
too late to change this mode
break all my moral codes

when you hear the sound of warning
when the only colour is red
red sky in the morning
everywhere i'm seeing red

running from myself again
and all i feel is shame
it doesn't matter where i go
everywhere still looks the same
this sense of emptiness
as we create this mess
self-destructive tendencies
are what you mean to me

when you hear the sound of warning
when the only colour is red
red sky in the morning
everywhere i'm seeing red


27.Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell Radio Edit

Lyricist:Paul Raven/Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Paul Raven/Jaz Coleman/Kevin Walker


28.In Excelsis Album Version

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson/Kevin Walker


29.Fresh Fever From The Skies

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson/Kevin Walker


30.European Super State Edit

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson/Kevin Walker
Writer(s):Jaz Coleman/Martin Glover/Paul Ferguson/Kevin Walker


31.Ghosts Of Ladbroke Grove Dub Edit

Lyricist:Killing Joke
Writer(s):Killing Joke


32.In Cythera Radio Edit

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman
Writer(s):Killing Joke


33.Corporate Elect

Lyricist:Jaz Coleman
Writer(s):Killing Joke