LYRICS
THE RAPTURE (POSTPANDEMIC II)
The Artist's Song /
VERSE 1
The sky was hot, our throats were dry
I heard men weep, I heard girl sigh
I saw an angel, sexless and bare
I saw it standing behind your chair
I lay my offer upon your plate
The angel smiled and said “create”
CHORUS
Who will sing? …who will scream?... (Pause)
The artist song
VERSE 2
My mind was grey, my thoughts were white
The sky ablaze, Oh too bright ----
One day you´re here, the next day gone
Last night you listened to this song
I felt no sorrow, I felt no grief
Continuation, was, your relief
VERSE 3
I was thirsty, you were starved
We drank our cups and filled the jars
We yearned for truth, we spat our hate
I carved your name, upon the gate
CHORUS
Who will sing, who will scream…
the artist song
A.M.O.C. /
While Four Dumb Presidents Snored /
Millions of jobs went out the door
When the world stopped, and the virus roared
We all panicked and built new walls,
While four dumb presidents snored.
From Shanghai to Milan, it caught the breeze,
At first we thought it´d be just a sneeze,
But it get in our lungs and started to squeeze,
While four dumb presidents snored.
Some stayed inside, some others died,
Hoping the disease would get fried.
We put on masks and tried to hide,
While four dumb presidents snored.
By drinking bleach, and posting tweets
The president made the whole thing sweet
Our world groaned while the leaders moaned
And four dumb presidents snored.
The birds were happy, the air was clean
You couldn`t imagine a better scene
But by rule of thumb people are dumb
And four stupid presidents snored.
Here comes 2021, in 22 we´ll stop singing this song
those 4 dumb presidents will be no more open up the door.
Now we´ve got a new vaccine,
and the first dumb president´s out of the scene;
One idiot down and three to go,
Christmas aint coming, ho, ho, ho!
While They Settled Their Score /
VERSE 1
Sing Mr. Pressman one, two, three
Let us hear your prophecy
Fly Mr. Pilot two, three, four
Take us to the next world war
Hope Mr. Preacher three, four, five
Faith in the fantasy keeps them alive
Jump Mr. President four, five, six
Time for another one of your tricks
CHORUS
She sells seashells on the sea shore
He sells fancy spells a whole lot more
As for us we swallowed it all
While they settled their score (x3)
VERSE 2
Sing Mr. Preacher five, six, seven
Tell us how to get to heaven
Jump Mr. Pilot six, seven, eight
Take us through that pearly gate
Hope Mr. President seven, eight, nine
We’ll believe you, just give us time
Fly Mr. Pressman eight, nine, ten
Waitin’ for you to tell us when
CHORUS
She sells seashells on the sea shore
He sells fancy spells a whole let more
As for us we swallowed it all
While they settled their score (x2)
1. Listen to our oceanographers
Read the Pentagon report
The gulf-stream is collapsing, that´s a fact
And when it does the ice-age will be back
2.- It´s up to us now to decide
Before we run out of time
Or the heat to come will make us fry
Or the blizzard will freeze us alive
B.- A snowstorm in Miami, a hurricane in Spain
Every year is hotter, fifty in the shade
Russia roasts in January, England´s without rain
Wildfires at our doorstep, disease is digging graves
Africa is starving, half the world in pain
More new wars are starting, and your president is insane
3.- I know you´re all distracted, by the news
You´re country´s on the rocks, you got the blues
But that local stuff is nothin´, the world´s a stew
And this time
we´ve got everything to lose
The Rapture /
The Angel I (her version) /
I met him one night in the bar
He’d come oh, oh so far
But I’d lost the keys to my car
And he’d come oh, oh so far
So I’d never, never see him again
So I’d never, never ever see him again
I asked him what was his name?
He asked me to tell him the same
Between us a great wall of pain
A feeling ‘twixt ecstasy and shame
Because we’d never, never ever see us again
Because we’d never, never ever see us again
He was different, a strange light in his hair
As he floated away up the stair
He left me wondering from where
He’d come from and should I really care
Beause I’d never, never ever see him again
They say that angels have wings
But that’s not how it seems
To me and all of my dreams
They wake me with angry screams
‘Cause I’ll never, never ever, see him again
It was fleeting, I was scarred when he left
Now the sun rises in the west
And the worst has turned into the best
That’s the beauty of this mess
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see him again
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see himr again
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see him again
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see him again
VERSE A
We were waiting for the rapture, we could feel his presence near
The synagogue of Satan is here
It was written in every scripture, affirmed by every tear
The synagogue of Satan is here.
The noise came as a thunder and the beast said “come and see”
A silver white city on wings
From the lake there rose asunder a craft shaped like a tree
A silver white city on wings
CHORUS
The Anti-Christ has come / The Anti-Christ is here
He came into the bar / And drank up all the beer
He´s indifferent to your mother/Cares not about your son
He tells you he´s your brother/But when you smell him… you´d better run.
VERSE B
Behold the door was open and a voice came rich in brass
The Apocalypse has come at last
An angel revealed the unspoken, a beast turned the lake to glass
The Apocalypse has come at last
The Beast is horned and winged, seven stars descended here
The synagogue of Satan is near
The Rapture thus delivered we could see the monster´s glare
The synagogue of Satan is here
CHORUS B
The Anti-Christ has come / The Anti-Christ is here
He´s blessed with Satan´s star / and sits upon his chair
He has a penchant for the slaughter / cares not about a gun
Beware he´s with your daughter / on the dark side… of the sun
VERSE C
You´ll see him on the TV, he´s always got a grin
The money always goes to him
He makes his own economy, gets fat while your grow thin
The money always goes to him
He´s the one and only Anti-Christ the one you hate to love
He’s damning you from above
Although he always seems real nice and offers you his glove
He´s always damning you from above
CHORUS C
The Anti-Christ has come / The Anti-Christ is here
He glows with orange skin / and shines with lemon hair
He demands you to obey him / He needs to have his fun
He loves to bathe in mayhem
For the synagogue of Satan… has come
Yes, the synagogue of Satan has come
the synagogue of Satan has come
The System is Vile /
This World Aint Mine
VERSE 1
A.- When I see your faces
Buried in your phone screens
When I feel your hatred
Flow through your tweets and memes
And when I want to move but there´s no room in the street…
When I want to swim but the sea is full of shit
When there are more wheels on the pavement than people´s feet
When they invade your party and no one is discrete
CHORUS
Then I know (I know)
That this world
aint no world of mine
Yes, I know (I know)
That this world
… Just aint no world of mine
VERSE 2
When we have to wear masks
Cause the air we breathe is bad
When we´re forced to do tasks
Cause the system is mad
When the rule of law is for a privileged few
And the good things you are, are the bad things you do
When success depends… on how selfish you can be
When you realise all your work, will never set you free
CHORUS
CHORUS FINAL
And I told you…
I told you
The design is far from good
And I warned you
I warned you
We have to, we must, we should
One day /
1.- The system is vile, but the sword is in my mouth now
The system is vile, but the battle has begun
You will eat cake and drink the cream of the sow now
As the poor swallow bile, a revolution has come
CHORUS (X3)
Streets are burnin´, everyone is yearnin´
Watch that phoenix fly
2.- I know what you do, see you workin´night and day now
I know what you do, see you draw your evil plan
I know what you do, and I know just how
You do it all on purpose cause you wanna be a man
CHORUS (X2)
3.- In order to be rich, you sold gold tried in fire
In order to be rich, you made free men slaves
In order to be rich, you build towers ever higher
And the vileness in your system, has made us all insane
CHORUS (x2)
4.- He that hath and ear, let him hear of your evil
He that hath a mouth, let him spit out your name
He that hath and eye, let him witness your perdition
When justice buries you, in the same shit that you made
The system is vile (REPEAT)
Make a Better World /
What times is it?
The time has come ladies and gentlemen to make a better world
If we had power, how could we make a better world? (x2)
We’d abolish hunger and get rid of the wars
Abolish money, get rid of the poor
How could we do that? We would need money for sure
How could we do that? We’d need money to buy things for sure
The robots will make things, no need to work no more
Robots make things and bring ‘em to your door
If the robots got our jobs, where are our wages coming from?
If the robots got our jobs, where’s the bread coming from?
You won’t need money with a robot in your home
The robots will work while we sing the songs
INSTRUMENTAL
What will do if we don’t have to work?
What will do if we don’t need to work?
You do what you want to, travel see the world
Be creative and thoughtful, a better you will unfurl
Do you really think that robots will make us free? (x2)
Well, first we must change this brutal economy
Say goodbye to capitalism, then wait and see
Say goodbye to capitalism, if we want to be free (repeat)
VERSE A
One day in another time
We´ll have a different slope to climb
We need to find words that rhyme
In this brand new world of mine.
Rome wasn´t built in a day
Revolution´s hard, but it´s the only way
Come on, let’s fly away
To the brand new world of mine.
CHORUS: This girl´s elation
Is that boy´s frustration
Is part of the equation
That adds up to nought
It looks surrealistic
But it´s really nihilistic
And it always
It always
Adds up to nought
VERSE B
Don´t believe everything you hear
Forget about the shit you fear
A new horizon will appear
Heading to this world of mine
We need time to climb the stair
If we want to breathe fresh air
Harmony will be the canon there
In that brand new world of mine
CHORUS
Purposeful evasion
Is our new elation
Making our equation
Round off to ten…
It seems futuristic
But it´s oh so realistic
And it always
It always
Rounds off to ten
The Angel II (his version)
I saw her one night in the bar
She’d come oh, oh so far
But I’d lost the keys to my car
And she’d come oh, oh so far
So I’d never, never see her again
So I’d never, never ever see her again
I asked her what was her name?
She asked me to tell her the same
Between us a great wall of pain
A feeling ‘twixt ecstasy and shame
Because we’d never, never ever see us again
Because we’d never, never ever see us again
She was different, a strange light in her hair
As she floated away up the stair
She left me wondering from where
She’d come from and should I really care
Beause I’d never, never ever see her again
They say that angels have wings
But that’s not how it seems
To me and all of my dreams
They wake me with anguished screams
‘Cause I’ll never, never ever, see her again
It was fleeting, I was scarred when she left
Now the sun rises in the west
And the worst has turned into the best
That’s the beauty of this mess
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see her again
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see her again
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see her again
‘Cause I’d never, never ever, see her again
The Age of the Mask /
Welcome to the Age of the Mask
Where we try not to breathe gas
By gas we mean the air expelled
Get infected a ticket to hell
By hell we mean intensive care
Pipe in your lungs pumping air
By air we mean oxygen
Tube down your throat it aint no fun
CHORUS
Come on pretty people
Put on your mask
Keep your distance
Is all we ask
This is the Age of the Mask
This is the Age of the Mask
This is the Age of the Mask
Muted, muzzled, life full of angst
It’s hard to live when you’re wearing a mask
Not quite a life more like a trance
This is the Age of the Mask
CHORUS
COVID-19 (Postpandemic I)
They Know Everything /
We know who you are
We know where you’ve been
We know what you’re doing
We know who you’ve seen
We have eyes in our ears
and ears in your nose
We know what you’re breathing
We’re inside your clothes
You call us Big Brother
It’s all for your best
If you want to survive here
You must do the test
…
CHORUS:
They know everything, everything
in your mind you can hear them sing
They know everything, everything
the chip in your heart lets them in
…
Let it be understood
It’s all for your good
If it wasn’t for us
Hiding under your hood
We gave you a mask
But that was a farce
We just wanted access
An access that lasts
We are in you and out you
It’s been a great start
We’re with you forever
Till death do us part
…
CHORUS:
They know everything, everything
the chip in your heart lets them in
They know everything, everything
in your mind you can hear them sing
Dead Dodoes /
(oooo, oooo, oooo, oooo)
Sit alone and drive your car
where you’re goin’ is not too far
“Much better than a crowded bus”
“Don’t give me that energy fuss”
What do you care, if the world is dying?
What do you care, if the Dodo is dead?
When it’s hot you want cold air
The machines make it hotter but you don´t care
You’ve got your problems, the world’s got its
Glaciers are meltin’, you don’t give a shit
What do you care, if the world is dying?
What do you care, if the Dodo is dead?
I don´t wanna be a dodo mum
I don´t wanna have to run away from the sun When is shines
I don´t wanna be a dinosaur
I don´t want to die with a roar but a smile on my face
Instead of waiting for the Apocalypse
Let´s talk about how to fix the human race
They say we´re incorrigible
But´s that´s a load of bull that needs to be erased
What are we doin´ in this place?
Don´t we know it´s the only space we´ve got Where we can be alive
What are our options, we´ve got one
Either stop consuming or we will run
Out of time
Like the Lemmings we can kill ourselves
A mass extinction or if not we could survive
Survival sounds like a better way
If we want our kids to play in the sun when it shines
Go to a temple and pray to God
Buy forgiveness for being a slob
Love your kids and love your boss
Love the guy hangin’ from the cross (oooo oooo)
What do you care, if the world is dying?
What do you care, if the Dodo is dead?
Refugees are invading
On the outside they’re starving
Reefs are gone, jungles are burnt
The storm is coming, what have you learnt
What do you care, if the world is dying?
What do you care, if the Dodo is dead?
U.B.I. /
It’s time for, the universal basic income
It’s time for, the universal basic income
An economy made for – everyone
A perfect economy, good for everyone.
There’s no reason, why life has to be so tough
Makin’ money, why must it be so rough?
It’s all a big lie, now it’s time to say ‘enough’
All a big lie, we really have had enough
The simplest ideas are the ones they hate the most
They keep us slaving, to feed their egos
Why spend your life, doin’ what you never want to do?
Getting’ up early, commutin’ to work on the tube
The U.B.I. covers all basic needs
Don’t have to do things, for the sake of their greed
The simplest ideas are the ones they hate the most
If we all stay at home, they will soon have to go
So, come on you unions, it’s time to heed the call
Come on you Socialists, together we’ll free us all
An economy made so no-one will be poor
When the Sickness Seeps into your Home /
We locked the door
We stayed inside
Clean the floor or we will die
It wants our air, it loves our blood
It climbs the stair, gushing like a flood
We were the virus until it came
Now nature plays us at our own game
We made a world where all things move
Now we're prisoners to our own bad mood
It did the impossible, cut away our defense
We made ourselves vulnerable it made no sense
Nature's not merciful why should it be
We've been fucking it up, cutting down trees
We've killed other species now we must die
Some will asphyxiate others will fry
For those who survive, they'd better learn
Remodel the system or the system will burn
Survival is a question of good faith
Preservation an obligation to stop the plague
Your growth is not perpetual it cannot be
Your philosophy is sick, can't you see?
After this sickness we must implode to survive
It's time to step back and take a look inside
When the sickness seeps in
When the sickness seeps into your home
Noone's Going to Help You /
The good man said he could make it better
But when you voted, he sent your kids to war
The rich man said he could make you richer
So you applauded now you’re oh so poor
The tax-man said the country needs your money
So you paid him and he gave it to his mates
The banks suddenly got very lucky
Schools shut down, factories closed their gates
Stay alive, make some strife
The system's got it all worked out for them
Stay alive. Just get by
No-one's gonna help you
No-one's gonna help you
No-one's gonna help you…… any more
While we work to get our wages
The real money’s floating to the top
Same old system through the ages
And us? If we’ve got enough, we’ve got a lot
It’s time to rethink this corrupt system
Measure men not by the money we get
Bitter cruel economy, and we’re blistered
Don’t give up we can change it yet
Stay alive, make some strife
The systems got it all worked out for them
Stay alive. Just get by
No-one's gonna help you
No-one's gonna help you
No-one'’s gonna help you…… but yourself
No- one’s gonna make us
No-one’s gonna break us
No-one’s gonna change us…
We’ll change ourselves
Oh Children! Why are you here? /
Our city rings with the cries of the ill
A wailing for the dead
At the graves on the hill, speak up old man
The people need be fed
From the depths, great waves of pain
Choke them till they die
You could have been a healer
despite all the strife
Oh Children! Why are you here?
Oh Children! Why are you here?
The raging plague, so ugly is
It feeds a trillion flies
Now we beg the best of you
Listen to our cries
Rule the world if you can
Be good and let us be
Instead of taking what you will
Give, and set us free
Oh Children! Why are you here?
Oh Children! Why are you here?
Our wasteland cities are stripped bare
Fields are deserts now
The time before, beyond compare
We've all forgotten how
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Here there is no shelter
Our beaches swallowed by the tide
While streets and houses swelter
You have been judged, you are condemned
An infamous eternity
We have contrived, we will survive,
Forgetting you with glee
Forgetting you with glee
Forgetting you with glee
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide
Here there is no shelter
Our beaches swallowed by the tide
While streets and houses swelter
You have been judged, you are condemned
An infamous eternity
We have contrived, we will survive,
Remember you scornfully
Remember you scornfully
Covid-19 /
It came from a bat when we destroyed its habitat
COVID nineteen
The worst thing to land since Alan Greenspan
COVID nineteen
Capitalism quailed while millions wailed
COVID nineteen
If you stay inside, you might survive
COVID nineteen
Once upon an age, on a different stage
It’ll never be the same, not after the plague
A different future, a better era
For ever and ever, we can make things better
As we relaxed, the economy collapsed
COVID nineteen
It’ll never be the same, not after the plague
COVID nineteen
Others prayed, but no-one was saved
COVID nineteen
It was so bad, some leaders went mad
COVID nineteen
Once upon an age, there was a different stage
It’ll never be the same, not after the plague
A different future, a better era
For ever and ever, we can make things better
You catch it on the train, catch it in the rain
COVID nineteen
Catch it when they sneeze, catch it when you breathe
COVID nineteen
Catch it on a seat, catch it with your feet
COVID nineteen
If you want to be free stay away from me
COVID nineteen
Once upon an age, on a different stage
It’ll never be the same, not after the plague
A different future, a better era
For ever and ever, we can make things better
Tired /
Have my breakfast with the morning news
Same old stuff corruption and abuse
With a bomb in a Pakistani school
A hundred dead Islamic army on the move
You can`t stop the national debt, can you?
No-one cares, there`s more money moving through
To the top. All shit floats, that`s the only real truth
Tell me a story about where we can go
What we can do to get out of this zoo
Think of a plan, invent a brand, a brand new show
Throw away the crap and look for something new
All we hear about is bankers robbing from the por
All we`re told about`s the crisis knocking at our door
If you want me to keep on working then tell me what it`s for
Cause I´m tired now I`m tired of it all …
Progress happens /
There once was a monkey, a very funky monkey
Who fell from a tree and landed on his knees
And when he tried to get up he stood up on two legs
His back as straight as iron and his hands on his head
Things are not what they always seem to be
Progress happens when we leave the tree
There once was a family, a very happy family
Who had a house and a home till they couldn’t pay the loan
The banks took the house, the cops threw them out
Threw them out in the Street with plenty to shout about
Things are not what they always seem to be
Crisis happens cause, we’ve never been free
Things are not what they always seem to be
Crisis happens cause, we’ve never been free
Imagine there are no countries
Imagine there’s no hell
Imagine there`s no money, no need to buy or sell
Imagine we're together with machine’s that really work
A sci-fi type utopia in a planet that we love
Things are never what they always seem to be
Progress won’t happen until we know how to be free
Really be free… free from money… free from the tree
Free from countries… free in the world… a world that we’d love to be free to be free ... to be free
We don't want to go back there /
When they say, the air is clean
Tell them that's not what you breathe
When they say, the sea don't rise
Open your eyes, show your surprise
When they say that God is good
Explain how he aint doin' what he should
When they say there's no money
Tell them there's plenty it's not the worry
It's time for tomorrow, time to make it well
Time for something better, an alternative to hell
The old normal is a bad normal and we don't ...
no we don't, want to go back there
If they say, things aren't that bad
Tell them not bad but very sad
If they say that they are happy
Tell them to beware of all things flashy
If they say you'd better conform
Tell them conforming is to crawl like a worm
If they say the crisis is nothing
Tell them that nothing comes from nothing
It's time, it's time, it's time it's time it's time
It's time for tomorrow, time to make it well
Time for something better, an alternative to hell
The old normal is a bad normal and we don't ...
no we don't, want to go back there
Wuhan /
Abominable Preachers
With the whole world trapped by Covid syndrome
Let’s take a look at the pandemic’s home
From Central China came the wave
from the capital city of Hubei
You all know the story it came from a bat
Sold in a market and the market was wet
With animals alive there aint no vet
You can buy anythin’ at a wet market
Wuhan, Wuhan, everyone’s thinkin’ about Wuhan
Wuhan, Wuhan, let’s all give a cheer
for Wuhan, Wuhan, everyone’s talkin’ bout Wuhan
Wuhan, Wuhan … whole thing started there
It’s a bit like flu, a pandemic stew
Your body aches, lungs turn to glue
It’s fast and deadly and jumps the queue
You’ll dread the day when it gets you
They locked them up, they locked ‘em in
At first it seemed like the greatest sin
Until we saw it as what we need
The spread of Covid threw the world to its knees
Wuhan, Wuhan, everyone’s thinkin’ about Wuhan
Wuhan, Wuhan, let’s all give a cheer
for Wuhan, Wuhan, everyone’s talkin’ bout Wuhan
Wuhan, Wuhan … whole thing started there
Now we know, now we can
Feel what happened at Wuhan
We’re wearing masks, the fashion spread
Keep a ventilator at your bed
The Orange Goblin /
Once upon a time there was a place
That was called the land of the free
Where people worked hard at a rapid pace
Then went on shopping sprees
Their symbol was the dollar
It could be no other way
With money everything is better
All you need to do is pray
Uh-hu uh-hu …
So what happened?
Too much shopping makes greedy folk
Who just want more and more
So they built an army to rule the world
And keep the beggars away from their doors
But when you´ve got all the money
You can´t keep the poor folk away
In a land of milk and honey
Eventually you´ll have to pay
Uh-hu uh-hu
How did they pay?
One fine day the sky fell in and the towers came crashing down
The shopping folk didn’t feel so free and they hid like frightened clowns
The Paradise was over, life had to be controlled
It was hard then to stay sober, everything had turned so cold
Uh-hu uh-hu …
So, what happened next?
Now Satan has sent his Anti-Christ in the form of an orange man
The land of the free is no longer nice and the good-folk got up and ran
The orange goblin is a liar
Who divides with slander and hate
He threw the free land on a pyre
And built a Wall without any gates
Uh-hu uh-hu …
WORDS ARE WORDS /
Someone got offended
By a song that we sang
They said we´d engendered
Evil in their mind
It was no song for children
That wouldn´t make sense
But they said they´d been slandered
And wanted recompense
CHORUS
Words these words are my words,
but they´re only words
They cut you like a knife,
but they´re only words.
We offended your morality
That´s what you said
Stuck a dick in your reality
And fucked up your head
You want us to pay for it
What to see us behind bars
For the sake of your justice
Freedom is a farce
CHORUS
Words these words are my words,
but they´re only words
They cut you like a knife,
but they´re only words……(BIS)
We sing about potential
That hurt your reality
Ideas are only mental,
But they set us free
You talk about freedom,
but you never change a thing.
You wallow in your serfdom,
And try to clip our wings
CHORUS
Words these words are my words,
but they´re only words
They cut you like a knife,
but they´re only words
The Deed is Done /
1.- Hello world, it´s time to confess
I want to tell you about the mess
The mess we made, it´s all our fault
Now, I´m afraid, we need to call a halt.
CHORUS
We have done the deed
Yet there was no need
To do it
There was too much greed
Couldn´t see the need
Of what we´ve got
2.- We went to the forest and we cut it down
We wanted the wood to build the town
The towns got bigger and the forests have gone
Our asphalt streets bubble in the summer sun
CHORUS
3.- We took our rubbish and threw it in the lake
We saw fish dying, already too late
We built a factory, made a trillion things a year
A billion gases billowed into the air
CHORUS
INSTRUMENTAL
4.- The weather´s changing, the seasons are all wrong
The river´s flooding and the storms are too strong
We want progress but no future is in sight
We´ve got to change, start doing what´s right
CHORUS
We have done the deed
Yet there was no need
To do it
But we can change the scene
If we all believe
We can
DANCING WITH PREACHER DON /
It happens in the gym
Or when they go confess their sins
When preacher Don sings his hymns
Watch out if your kids are with him.
He loves them too much
Would do anything just for a touch
He don’t know what he does
Wonders why we make such a fuss.
CHORUS
There´s dancing… dancing… dancing
When preacher Don´s in town… playing
Playing… playing around
He takes them for walks
He gives them lots of nice talks
He loves nature of course
Preacher Don has a spiritual force
He learned it in the scouts
When the leaders took him out
It all seemed nice and gay
But really it was the devil’s way
CHORUS
He didn’t need to use sweets
The sweets were in the words he preached
He sings the praise of God
But watch out. He’s really a dog
Take the hand of Preacher Don
Surprises will come, they won’t take long
He’s so happy to see you smile
His love will come, in a while
CHORUS
FROM ABOMINABLE PREACHERS /
From abominable preachers
Whose desires never cease
Words are sent to teach us
How to live in peace
They have an idea
They hope will never die
They subject it to memory
Then turn truth into a lie
Famine is their friend
And hunger is their seed
Rather than a happy soul
They prefer the hearts that bleed
They make a famine
Where abundance thrives
Build on the shifting sands
That chaos drives
All the whirling dervishes
Who sell their wares
Have been sent to furbish us
With pain and tears
And it´s a pity my friend
That we can never live
A truthful life creating
The best that we can give
And it´s a pity my friend
That we can never live
A truthful life creating
The best that we can give
And it´s a pity my friend
That we can never live
A truthful life creating …
Anything better than this
I TOLD THE TRUTH /
1.- I told the truth, nothing but truth
Just revealed facts, about differents acts
I could not lie, if I did I´d die
Couldn´t be like them, God forbid, A-men
They didn´t like what I had to say
Said the truth is a lie anyway
When I told the truth, when I told the truth
2.- They made me lie, they made me cry
They told me to shut up, or I would die
Truth is something
They can´t stand, they shut the gate
On the truth they hate,
truth was a goddess called Veritas
But Veritas died when they kissed her ass
That´s what they said, that´s what they said.
No wonder everyone´s running scared
Now there are lies flying everywhere
3.- Relativity in a dying sea,
is a poisonous drop of insincerity
Day after day, it gets in the way
Of an honesty, that could make us free
They didn´t like what I had to say
Said the truth is a lie anyway
When I told the truth…
END OF DAYS /
1.- We are… the hollow men…
We are… the stuffed men… and
This is the end of all days.
2.- Ask the sisters… about the brothers…
Watch how… the eye flutters…
This is the end of all days.
MIDDLE
If you want to save yourself
All I can say is break the spell
If you want to save the world
Find a purpose that´s not absurd
3.- Drilling oil… fracking gas…
Killing soil it really has…
This is the end of all days
4.- The sun is hazy…
the seas are sad…
This is the end of all days
FINAL
If you want to save your face
Think about the human race
If you want a quick solution
Then we need a revolution
ME AND THE ROBOT /
Wonderin’ why I play guitar in this day and age
When there should be some robot playin’ instead
But will a robot ever play as bad as I do?
It’s the mistakes I make that make it so much fun
A robot plays but it don’t enjoy and that’s the difference
I got to eat and he don’t sleep, we’re not the same
You might think you don’t give a damn, but I tell you one day soon
You’re gonna have a robot in your room
It will tell you what to do and how to brush your teeth
It won’t give you a minute of peace
I remember the good old days when people played guitars
The days before the robots became stars
Wonderin’ why I play guitar in this day and age
When there should be some robot playin’ instead
IN GERNIKA /
We heard the crash, we heard the clap,
the sky flashed white, and our lives went black.
Oooooh, Ahhhh …
A woman is weeping, her head full of screams,
dead child in her arms, this is no dream…
Oooooh, Ahhhh … It´s Gernika.
What kind of Monster does such a thing?
A shower of bombs in the middle of spring
A torrent of terror dropped from the sky,
a single aim that civilians will die… in Gernika.
The sword is broken, the hero is dead,
the dragon has come, and blown off his head.
Oooooh, Ahhhh …
The modern way is to do what we must, our aim is to win, in God we trust… Oooooh, Ahhhh …
If innocents must die, so let it be.
Kill the weak, so the strong can be free..
Oooooh, Ahhhh … in Gernika.
The bombing of Gernika, a new way to go,
Dresden, Hiroshima, now Aleppo
We´ll gas them in showers and in their beds
While we offer them justice, we cut off their heads
Oooo, aaahh… Oooooh, Ahhhh … It all began in Gernika.
The dragon’s not strong, he just feeds on fear,
he´s ruled us with terror year after year,
He´s invented our enemies, made his evil seem good,
he sends kids to war, and we think he should
Ooooohh… ahh … Oooooh, Ahhhh …
The evil …
The evil …
The evil …
is on our side
THE GOLDEN AGE /
When times are troubled
When everything is bad
When the only future, seems like the
Nothing you have
CHORUS
Don´t give up, don’t despair, think Golden (x 2)
A golden age is coming
There will be a leap
An age of clean technology
Where people are deep
CHORUS (x2)
I know you are surrounded by idiots
I know it´s tough
But the Golden age with replace
All the negative stuff
CHORUS (x3)
In the golden age, there´ll be sun and shade
We will not be made…
To spend our time, wasting our minds
Wasting on their crimes
Our time is short, so we are taught
But really that’s a lie…
We can do so much. If we’re in touch
And we don’t need them to survive…
Just open your eyes, let ideas rise
And build a world we want…
We want and need, no need for greed,
Fulfilment is before us now…
In the golden age, there´ll be sun and shade
We will not be made…
… etc
When times are troubled
When everything is bad
When the only future, seems like the
Nothing you have
CHORUS
Don´t give up, don’t despair, think Golden (x 2)
ELSINORE BLUES /
Something is rotten in the State of Denmark
Something is rotten in the whole wide world
To be or not to be that is the question
Either life has meaning or its absurd
Alas por Yorick I knew him well
Alas por Yorick I knew him well
Where is he now, in Heaven or Hell?
My name is Hamlet, I’ve got the Elsinore Blues
My name is Hamlet, I’ve got the Elsinore Blues
My dad dies, I’m still alive
Now it’s me whose gotta choose
I’m pretty sure my uncle killed my Pa
I’m pretty sure my uncle killed my Pa
Now he’s married to my mother, oh what a farce!
My girlfriend’s lyin’ in a sea of flowers
My girlfriend’s lyin’ in a sea of flowers
I didn’t kill her, how could I? I got no power
Something is rotten in the State of Denmark
Something is rotten in the whole wide world
To be or not to be that is the question
Either life has meaning or its absurd
NOT THE RIGHT WAY /
I have got something to say
This is not the right way
I hear your shouting night after night
Screaming into an empty hole, it’s not quite right
We have so far to go
So may things that we don’t know
The wise man knows nothing, the fool does it all
It’s a fools-created world, all of this sprawl
Such a sad day today
Another friend has gone away
How many times must we make mistakes?
How many corrections do we need to make?
I have got something to say
This is not the right way
I hear your shouting night after night
Screaming into an empty hole, it’s not quite right
THE SECRECY /
If I had a dream
I would dream about it
If I had a screen
I would paint it on it
If I had a belief
I´d tell you all about it
But I´m sworn
to the utmost
secrecy
If I knew his name
I would sing it out loud
If I felt the same
I would tell the whole crowd
If I could smell the rain
I´d be fishing trout now
But I´m sworn
to the utmost
secrecy
Don´t ask for clues
I can´t give none
These are the rules
We can´t break them
The laws are written
We can´t fake them
Because we’re sworn
to the utmost
secrecy
They had a scheme
They planned the whole thing
Thousands would die
But that meant nothing
After the act
They all went scott free
And we were all sworn
to the utmost
secrecy
Innocents were paid to take the whole wrap
And we swallowed every ounce of the crap
When we screamed for justice we fell in their trap
They made us swear
To the utmost
Secrecy
I can’t talk and you can’t either
If I walk I walk behind you
Through the squawk we give a deaf ear
‘Cause we’re sworn
To the utmost
Secrecy
ART IS A HUMAN INSTINCT /
Well, I got my art in motion,
gave my pen a steady hand
Gonna create with devotion,
being a god is who I am
Art´s a human instinct,
creation makes us stars
It´s the doing that´s important, let it be…
Be what we are
Well, Andy´s got a studio,
down the Street we´re gonna jam
Hot summer revolution,
play piano under the fan
Jayne´s a real hot drummer, and Jake´s a guitar man
Now everyone´s come to join us, and we´ve made…
A big rock band
CHORUS
And the song we´re singing… And the song we´re playing
Is the song we´re singing… is the song we´re playing…
Big Al will make the video,
we´ll show it once on-line
Just like one big rock show,
play right it´ll be fine
The script must be perfect,
the image must be pure
Our work must seem professional,
even though we´re amateur
CHORUS
And the song we´re singing… And the song we´re playing
Is the song we´re singing… is the song we´re playing…
In the world we live in… in the world we´re playing
It is the song we´re singing… it is the song we´re playing
And the life we´re leading… is the song we´re singing
And the life we die from… is the song we´re playing
We have to make it… before they take it
It´s the song we´re singing