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1.Creation

Beware of false prophets!

Blow up bodies, blow our minds
Destruction is what's left behind

On East and West the worlds collide
Battle lines just fade and die

In the Islamic East
The slaughter at the feast
Is this your?

And the only thing that's feared
Is just a sacrificial beast
Is this your?

Call in the dogs of war
And slaughter the whore
Is this your creation?

While those who don't believe
At best are left to bleed
Is this your creation?

Children who can't be saved
Thrown into an early grave
Is this your creation?

Discrimination and hate
The legacy of mankind
Is this your creation?


2.Tokyo Rose

Some say it was a match made in heaven
Some say made in hell
Before too long, old Jakie
Was hearing those old church bells

He drove a tractor, she drove a cadillac
All he wanted to do
Climb Fuji, Tokyo tower
See the sights of the city too

I'll meet you in Shibuya
Said Tokyo Rose
I'll meet you at the statue of Hachik?
Tokyo Rose

Now some people wait all day
Some people wait all night
Waiting for the lover to come along
You know it just ain't right

I'll meet you in Shibuya
Said Tokyo Rose
I'll meet you at the statue of Hachik?
Tokyo Rose

Tokyo Rose!

What do you do in Tokyo?
Go out and meet the boys
Take in a few bars, have a little drink
You got too much choice

I'll meet you in Shibuya
Tokyo Rose
By the statue of Hachik?
Tokyo Rose


3.Hell Is Other People

Save your sermon, save your conviction
Your holy book - nothing but fiction
Hell fire, gentle persuasion
Just look around you - the fear is frightening

Hell is other people
Hell is

Said I was a bad boy, I'll go straight to hell
Tried to beat some good in me, I was born to rebel
Grew up with a chip - One on each shoulder
But I found the truth before I got much older

It seems the world's turned lazy
That they've all gone crazy
I start to smile
But in a while
I start to think

Hell is

So maybe it's me
Maybe it's the age I've reached
I look around
I see straights and freaks
Some people get happy looking at a clown
Some people get crazy, having them around

It seems the world's turned lazy
And that they've all gone crazy
I start to smile
But in a while
I start to think

Oh, Hell is!


4.The Axe

You lit a fuse
And then you ran away
You cried all day
When the axe came down

You pay your money
You take a chance
But now you do a different dance
And there'll be no pipers playing
When the axe comes down

You said the streets of the city
Were paved in gold
But you were bought and sold
Before the axe came down

You ran the gauntlet
You ran from the law
But you ran outta luck
When the axe came down

Now I can't tell you why
The martyrs had to fry
Some say it's just an act of God

Who dares wins
Who hesitates has lost
And now you pay the cost
When the axe comes down

And all you paid up Republicans
Who live by the gun
Your time will come
When the axe comes down

But every generation
Just filled with hate
Running from the blade
When the axe comes down

The architects and draftsmen
Who build the brave new world
They'll call for your blood
When the axe comes down


5.Radio Unfriendly

Turn on my radio
I wanna hear some rock 'n' rock
All I get is a sludge fest
Girl and boy bands and the rest

Try another station
Not doing so good
I get the middle of the road
I turn on the news

Radio unfriendly
Playing the same thing over
Radio unfriendly
Collecting your payola

Hey kids, I've found
A brand new station
It's going out
Across the nation
Don't need no tuner
Or other wires
Don't need no radio
It's called D.I.Y

Radio unfriendly
Playing the same thing over
Radio unfriendly
Collecting your payola


I think it's just me
Getting old and cranky
It's all opium for the people
I need something to believe in
Before I stop breathing


6.This Chaos

As kings and queens change places
The castles rise and fall
They call it civilization
But it isn't that at all

It's Chaos - Chaos: they call civilization
Chaos - Chaos: they call civilization

Behind the window
Of a tenement block
So many good people
But what have they got?

Chaos - Chaos: they call civilization
This chaos - chaos: they call civilization

Do we have a chance? NO!
To realise potential? NO!
Do they have freedom? NO!
To be what we wanna be
Oh no

The poets write history
The armies destroy
Panic and slaughter
And it doesn't make sense


7.Guru

It's swirling round my head
Everything that you said
Espoucing mysticism
And transcendentalism

Your Guru

He dresses like a sheik
But lives in Heywardss Heath
Selling you his saffron lies
While sleeping with all your wives

Your Guru

He says your aura's too faded
That science is just too jaded
He wants a million for a shrine
He says what's yours is mine is mine

Collecting big fat checks
From all you spiritual wrecks
Saving wealthy souls
While driving his paisley Rolls

Your Guru


8.Eighteen Wheels

Eighteen wheels a-rolling
Rolling down the road
Out on Highway One
Waiting to implode

For I am, I am
I'm your highway man
I am, I am
What I am

Look out any window
Open any door
You'll see me riding by
Down the golden shore

I am, I am
I'm your highway man
I am, I am
What I am

Some drive up to heaven
Some drive down to hell
I'm on Highway Number One
There's no one here to tell

And I am, I am
I'm your highway man
I am, I am
What I am

Eighteen wheels a-rolling
On Highway Number One
San Diego to Spokane
On my Whiskey run

I am, I am
I'm a highway man
I am
What I am


9.Children Of The Flood

Shall we say that man has had his day
No more history, it's over
The struggle has begun
For generations to come
No more honey, no more clover

Flood waters cover land
From horizon to horizon
All your cattle washed away
Along with your possessions
Politicians talk about it
Forgetting there's a crisis
They take the money
Still the water's rising

We're all children of the flood
Too late, too late for talking
We're all children of the flood
I guess you better start walking

Politicians talk about it
Water just gets higher
They just tall ya
There's nothing they can do
The population grows
And the earth keeps shrinking
There's no land left
For me and you

We're all children of the flood
Too late, too late for talking
We're all children of the flood
I guess you better start walking


10.All Blurs Into One

Just another hazy day
Open the door, go out to play
What's that coming down the street
Hey, there's friends I got to meet
So I drive on down the road
Just to find a watering hole

Another sunny afternoon
Drinking beer and Tequila
My head's starting to spin around
I can't drive much further

We end up in a music bar
My head is feeling hazy
When the band begins to play
We get a little crazy

It all blurs into one

Don't ask me the time of day
My memory fails me
I just don't know what week it is
Or the time of year

Just one thing on my mind
And it's there all the time
And it's time for another beer

Next day I'm in the dark
Woke up in the park
Had a strange thing over my head
A wreath or two, they thought I was dead

Go home, have a shower
Being right as rain in just one hour
Is it '77, is it 2001
I don't care
I'm having too much fun

All blurs into one


11.Blood

Looking out my window
What you think I see?
Another stormy night
On a stormy sea

Another round of bars
Another drink or three
I'm driving down a road called
No Mercy

An accident
Just waiting to happen
I'm standing here
On this sterile stage
Paranoia all around
I got my both feet on the ground
The crowd cried out for more, more, more

Blood
They want blood
You got to give 'em blood
Blood on my guitar
Blood
Blood
Can't you see the blood?
Blood on my guitar

I wanna see some blood

Blood
Blood
Blood on my guitar


12.Rock 'N' Roll Whore

She comes out with her pretty face
fish nets, black lace
You know she comes from outer-space
You just can't ignore her

Said that she has done it all
New York is such a bore
No CBs anymore
No place left to go

She's just a rock n roll whore
She's so hardcore
She gives out pussy galore
She's just a rock n roll whore

Concrete jungles at a mall
Her head is always in the stars
Haunted all the New York bars
Her life is a go go

Climbs into her spaceship
Trying to find a place that's hip
Hollywood Sunset Strip
East Coast is a no no

She's just a rock n roll whore
She's done it all before
Nobody can ignore
She's just a rock n roll whore

She's just a rock n roll whore
She's done it all before
Nobody can ignore
She's just a rock n roll whore

She's just a rock n roll whore
She's done it all before
No CBs anymore
She's just a rock n roll whore

She's just a rock n roll whore
She's done it all before
Nobody can ignore
She's just a rock n roll whore

She's just a rock n roll whore
New York is such a bore
Can't stand it anymore
she's just a rock n roll whore

She's just a rock n roll whore
Nobody can ignore
She's done it all before
She's just a rock n roll whore


13.Strychnine

Some folk like water
Some folk like wine
I like the taste of
Straight strychnine

You may think it's funny
That I love this stuff
But if you've tried it
You can't get enough

Wine is red
Poison is blue
Strychnine is good
For what's ailing you

Said wine is red
Poison is blue
Strychnine is good
For what's ailing you

If you listen to what I say
You'll try strychnine one day
It'll make you jump
Make you shout
It may even knock you out


14.Robot Age

Dance, travel
In the robot age

God did not make man
Man made God

God did not make man
Man made God

Dance, travel
In the robot age

God did not make man
Man made God

Dance, travel
In the robot age