Ministry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing To Taste
Tracklisting:
(5:02)
Also appears on:
Thieves (12" Remix) - Burning Inside
(single)
Thieves (Live) - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Thieves (12" Remix) - Box
(compilation)
Thieves (Mercer Arena, Seattle) - Sphinctour (DVD)
(video)
Thieves (Live) - Live Necronomicon
Thieves (Mercer Arena, Seattle) - Sphinctour
Thieves (Live in Seattle) - Rantology
thieves
thieves and liars
murderers
hypocrites and bastards
in laughter
hey
thanks for nothing
morals into dust
two-faced
parasites and syncophants
no trust
thieves
liars
inside, outside, which side, you don't know
my side, your side, their side, we don't know
which side today
which side today
wich side of your mouth do you spread your decay
which side today
which side today
which side of the fence is greener
inside, outside, which side, we don't know
my side, your side, their side, we don't know
you're like a great big fucking gun
just waiting to get squeezed
greed
profit erection
toxic load ejection
geriatric fuck-face
with syphillitic mind
thieves
liars!
inside, outside, which side, we don't know
my side, your side, their side, we don't know
who started it
who started it
which side today
which side today
which side of your mouth do you spread your decay
which side today
which side today
which side of the fence is greener
inside, outside, which side, we don't know
my side, your side, their side, no one knows
you're like a great big hit of acid
waiting to be taken
(5:20)
Also appears on:
Burning Inside (12" Remix) - Burning Inside
(single)
Burning Inside (Live) - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Burning Inside (Live) - Live Necronomicon
Burning Inside (12" Remix) - Box
(compilation)
will these dreams still follow me
out of dark obscurity
can't you see it up in the sky
as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry
you never had the answers
and now you tell me the facts of life
i really couldn't be bothered with you
get out of my face and watch me die
burning inside
burning inside
absolution and a frozen room
are the dreams of men below
i try to grab it but the touch is hot
the mirror collapses, but the image came not
i'm scared of the darkness in the light
i scare myself because i know i'm right
i see the evil in your savage eye
as it cuts right through the sky
burning inside
burning inside
calling a mantra with a blade in the skin
for the demons within
i feel the pain is the death and decay
but the lesson never fades away
too little shadows, turn away
you throw the man through the window pane
another slave and a victim of fate
another lesson in hate
burning inside
burning inside
(4:59)
is everybody in
is everybody in
the shit action is about to begin!
i made my servants like fires in your cities
hysterical laughter at the last of the separators fuel
i'll make drug for the whole damned war
allow the others to do all the work
i lift not my hands to save this idiot bastard
mercy!
me and cellmate have locked the gates for ever
the sun shines as i freeze my balls off
i want so much to remove your mask
and deliver your neurotting flesh from evil
i couldn't stand the test?? x4
but i'm only allowed to touch what i know
and all i know are hypocrites
liars and witches who burned in the name of stupidity
you'll never believe
never believe
we haven't much time left
evening will come
and with it's equivalence
no tethered animal
would fear to curse
they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill
they ask it of us and we smile
coarse in condition
a trial for fenceless fields
we'll go further, we'll go for the green
as sickly as salvation - the future fears!
you'll never believe
never believe
(6:10:00)
dehumanize
lobotomize
thrown into a cell
swallow your pride
with an infant mind
thrown into a cell
a punishment fit
for a crippled mind
don't do that to me
criminals, subordinates
all laughing at me
life is hell
forever fighting
a deficit mind
we're all left alone and poisoned
a sickening trap
a sight worth seeing
dehumanized
lobotomized
thrown into a cell
swallow your pride
and an infant mind
don't do that to me
don't do that to me
force-fed from birth
time frozen, fearfully
you know what i said
hideous in strength
thrown into a cell
a punishment fit
for a crippled mind
breathe!
corporate corpses with self-serve denial
the raping of the land
collapse, the lungs malfunction
they never learned to breathe
breathe!
rusted syringes and half-life disposals
a burial at sea
waste water graveyard
swimming in disease
breathe!
this is the world
it's not working
this is deserved
breathe!
breathe, you fucker!
children gasping the second-hand air
dance of desperation
we cut through toxic lies with truth
we breathe
breathe!
this is the world
the clock's ticking
is this deserved?
breathe!
breathe, you fucker!
hope springs eternal but where's the conviction
action mistaken for lip service paid
all this concern is the true contradiction
the world is insane
breathe!
this is the world
if there's a future
this is deserved
breathe!
breathe, you fucker!
(8:14)
Also appears on:
So What (Live) - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
So What (The Warfield, San Francisco) - Sphinctour (DVD)
(video)
So What (Live) - Live Necronomicon
So What (Live) - Greatest Fits
So What (The Warfield, San Francisco) - Sphinctour
die! die! die! die!
scum sucking depravity debauched
anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics
savage scourge supply and sanctify
so what
so what
die! die! die! die!
die! die! die! die!
you said it
sedatives supplied become laxatives
my eyes shit out lies
i only kill to know i'm alive
so what
so what
die! die! die! die!
die! die! die! die!
so what, it's your problem to learn to live with
destroy us, or make us saints
we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late
a screaming headache on the brow of the state
killing time is appropriate
to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say
so what
so what
die! die! die! die!
die!
now i know what is right
i'll kill them all if i like
i'm a time bomb inside
no one listens to reason
it's too late and i'm ready to fight
i'm ready to fight
yo!
this is a test
you say this when i say that
you say this when i say that
you say this when i say that
you say this when i say that
but i'm not with that
so step back or kiss my...
cause i won't be held back
so don't fight or dis' or piss me off
cause i'm not soft or weak
running down in the maze of the day
this is a new phase
don't be commercial or sell out
or get the hell out of this business
but i won't be caught in that net of suckers
and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble
society probably wants me to give up
society probably wants me to give up
as i live up to be my best
in a test
a fight for death
as i fight for my very last breath
and etc.
and etc.
gotta be strong
but wait a minute
now could i be better?
now could i be better?
well, only i know
well, what about you?
or do you have a clue?
could've, would've, should've - it's too late
could've, would've, should've - it's too late
why you waiting, laying, sit there? move!
be your own person!
wake up, make up your mind
seek the knowledge that you will find
be your own person
wait for it from the weak
cause they make the people level
and with you make a team
so believe, and be your best
becuase this is a test
go for the top chart
rock with all your heart
rock-hard, stay up, go
deal with what's going on
in this crazy world
man woman child boy girl
insane to the playing
love music power pain
be what you gotta do
get the knowing attitude
cause this is a test
that we suggest
be your own person!
cause this is a test!
this is... a test!
cause we all know who is the real victim
society does not want them picked on
labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt,
don't miss your boot and kicked him
faceless in the morning in their urban plight
felt like a symbol with every situation
any one tour already overcrowded
project nation, more inflation
better your damn situation
but how can you better your situation
if you have no occupation?
ten of us said, watch the rolodex center
see how many different schools you can enter
they're out turning in the pit, but life's a bitch
the world's unconcerned
i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch
you own the key to the damn city
but it's a damn pity
(4:01)
faith collapsing!
(4:48)
girl: when you're dreaming you're alive..
whispered voice:
(1:03)
the dreams are back
once more and infinite
and our thin reasoning gives way
to the ground
this has always been
(1:58)
there i was over me
as i ran for cover
the lines forming in
but i was already there
girl:
(3:13)
well i had this dream one night,
i was like, i was lying on my like,
stupid uncomfortable bed,
that,
an um, it was like really hot,
ok like, start of the summer,
an, hot, its really hot, an i had like, like no fan, or
anything.
ya know fine, an i had this weirdest, weirdest,
weirdest, like nightmare,
ya know how you have some nightmares, when there like,
there like, dreams,
but their not dreams, their like real?
ya know? an like you feel, it felt alive,
when your dreaming, you feel alive, when your dreaming.
an i had this dream, when this angel came up, just,
like, up my fire escape,
cause i don't have bars on my windows, cause i don't
belive in bars on windows,
an, she was there in my room, just lying there, she
came, and she kissed me.
and i woke up, and i must have come.
do you believe in angels?
no.