Ministry Greatest Fits
Tracklisting:
(5:52)
just like another speck of dust that's on the highway of life,
he screams at anyone who'll listen that the end is in sight,
so then he circles the wagons or he just circles then quits
cause the highway could become- the final battling pit??
so when the company wants, another problem resolved,
or if the company wants a choice of nothing at all,
point your thumb out to the highway through the heat and the dust,
and raise your finger in the middle till you shout:
"what about us!" x 4
just like another last call, it means nothing at all,
you either kiss a lot of ass, or tear the clock off the wall,
another warning ignored another sign of the times,
they say the sky is gonna fall, so why not drink till you're blind
so when the company wants another company-man,
or when the company wants another 1,000 year plan
you'll let your boot go up the road you cannot possibly trust,
till the screaming hits the ceiling and you ask:
"what about us?" x5
"what about us?" x4
don't follow my path to extinction, if i had a mind i'd leave it alone,
we speak of aliteration,
like a journey to the inside of carnal-fiction,
release yourself where the predator prays, rewind your mind, freeze your world apart.
wage war on the eye which cannot see, destroy the temple of emptiness,
and what about them in the wake of damnation,
and what about us? do we come from god?"
just like the old soft shoe or the old song and dance
the only check that's in the mail is probably already cashed
are you a victim of chance? is this the way to succeed?
or just a crack in the wall of what the people believe,
so when the company wants the final weapon online,
when the company wants to repossess your mind,
you gotta wonder if the fear that we loathe or trust
would ever waste a precious second trying to answer:
what about us x 6
do we come from god?
what about them [echos and fades out]
so you don't respect the distance on the highway of life,
screams for anyone who listens that the end is in sight,
so then you circles the wagons or engines circles that quick,
cos the highway got a gun that fires down on respect,
so when the company wants, when all the problems resolved,
well if the company wants to think i am nothing at all,
pull yourself onto the highway so they eat all the dust,
with the finger in the middle till you shout:
"what about us!" x 4
so you hear the last call, it means nothing at all,
so you kiss a lot of ass, so they come to the war,
another warning ain't nothing but the sign of the times,
they say the sky is gonna fall, so why the frick are you blind?
so when the company wants another company-man,
and when the company wants another, it frowns on your plan,
it's a ?? up the road you cannot possibly trust,
till the screaming hits the ceiling and you ask:
"what about us?" x5
"what about us?" x4
"don't follow my path to extinction, if i had a mind i'd leave it alone,
we speak of a nation, kids, 'n'ghetto/transcendental (?) medication,
like a journey to the inside of carnal-fiction,
brace yourself with the preditor prays, rewind your mind, freeze your world apart.
wage war on the eye which cannot see, destroy the temple of emptyness,
and what about them when they wake up damnation,
and what about us? we come from god!"
just like they all saw through, the outcoming dead
they only take me to the man, but they already can,
are you a victim of chance, it's the way to succeed,
because the quicker the war, it's what the people believe,
so when the company wants the final weapon online,
when the company want to reposess your mind,
now you wonder in the fear that without our trust (?)
whenever weeks just feels like seconds, when you answer:
what about us x 6
we come from god!
what about them [echos and fades out]
(5:45)
Also appears on:
Stigmata (Remix) - Stigmata
(single)
Stigmata (Live) - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up
Stigmata (Live) - Live Necronomicon
Stigmata (Roseland Ballroom, New York) - Sphinctour (DVD)
(video)
Stigmata (Remix) - Box
(compilation)
Stigmata (Update Mix) - Rantology
Stigmata (Roseland Ballroom, New York) - Sphinctour
stronger than reason
stronger than lies
the only truth i know
is the look in your eyes
the look in your eyes
just like a car crash
just like a knife
my favorite weapon
is the look in your eyes
you've run out of lies
you've run out of lies x6
there's a ton locked in your empty eyes
get out of my life
i'm chewing on glass
and eating my fingers
i'm not the one
who's run out of lies
lies
you've run out of lies x4
you've run out of time
cutting my face
and walking on splinters
i lost my soul
to the look in your eyes
your eyes
you ran out of lies x4
stigmata!
oh, you have empty eyes x7
they've told me nothing. nothing but lies
(5:10)
Also appears on:
The Land of Rape and Honey (Live) - Live Necronomicon
face to face
blood to blood
the mountain
you tumbled from
and in the land of rape and honey
you prey
step by step
you climb the mountain
you prey
fist to fist
eye to eye
the rulers of the wasteland
and in the land of rape and honey
you prey
step by step
you climb the mountain
you prey
head to head
chest to chest
which country is the very best
and in the land of rape and honey
you prey
step by step
you climb the mountain
you prey
(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
(5:31)
Also appears on:
N.W.O. (Extended Dance Mix) - N.W.O.
(single)
N.W.O. (Live Charlotte, 25 Aug 1992) - Just Another Fix
(compilation)
N.W.O. (Update Mix) - Rantology
N.W.O. (Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles) - Sphinctour (DVD)
(video)
N.W.O. (Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles) - Sphinctour
N.W.O. (Album Edit) - N.W.O.
(single)
N.W.O. (Extended Dance Mix) - Box
(compilation)
i'm in love without the tears of regret
open fire cos i love it to death
sky high, with a heartache of stone
you'll never see me cos i'm always alone
how to love without a trace of dissent
i'll buy the toys if you can pay for the rent
flying high with the public in hand
i'm in love with the promised land
i'm in love with a malicious intent
you've been taken but you don't know it yet
a truer love has never yet to be found
i see the sunset through the eyes of a clown
(5:11)
Also appears on:
Just One Fix (Aragon Ballroom, Chicago) - Sphinctour
Just One Fix (Aragon Ballroom, Chicago) - Sphinctour (DVD)
(video)
Just One Fix (12" Edit) - Just One Fix
(single)
Just One Fix (Live Denver, 17 Dec 1992) - Just Another Fix
(compilation)
Just One Fix (Video Edit) - Just One Fix
(single)
Quick Fix - Just One Fix
(single)
Quick Fix - Box
(compilation)
Just One Fix (12" Edit) - Box
(compilation)
life keeps slipping away
silence of desperation
trying to find a highway in vein
trying to find a destination
just one fix
clock keeps ticking away
banging on the walls of frustration
organs keep grinding away
monkey is the only solution
just one fix
monkey starts driving the train
tries to take out the station
tried to find a highway in vein
monkey kills without hesitation
just one fix
(4:51)
Also appears on:
Jesus Built My Hotrod (Update Mix) - Rantology
Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version) - Jesus Built My Hotrod
(single)
Jesus Built My Hotrod (Short, Pusillanimous * So-They-Can-Fit-More-Commercials-On-The-Radio Edit) - Jesus Built My Hotrod
(single)
Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version) - Box
(compilation)
soon i discovered that this rock thing was true
jerry lee lewis was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that i could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
ding dang a dong bong bing bong
ticky ticky thought of a gun
everytime i try to do it all now baby
am i on the run
why why why why why baby
if it's so evil then?
give me my time, with all my power
give it to me all again (wow)
ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
every where i go
everytime you tell me baby
when i settle down
got to get me a trailer park
and hold my world around
why why why why?
ding ding donga dong dong ding dong
dingy dingy son of a gun
half my time i tell you baby
never am i all for sure
why why why why why baby
sicky sicky from within
everytime i stick my finger on in ya
you're a wild wild little town bitch
now how 'bout ding a dang dong dong dong ling long
dingy a dingy dong a down
everytime you tell me baby
when i settle down
got to get me a trailer park
and hold my world around
why why why why?
in my dang a ding a ding a ding dong
a sticky sticky son of a gun
ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong
why why never know
why why wack a dong a dang ding dong
then you take it on the bill
ding dang dong don't dong
whoa!
i wanna love ya!
why why why, why why darling
do you do you tell me to play?
half the time i talk about it all now baby
you know what i'm talkin' about i said
why why why it'll
ticky ticky ticky ticky
son of a gun
ding ding dong a bong bong bing bong
ticky ticky thought of a gun
bing bing bang a bang a bang bing bong bing a bing bang a bong
binga bing a bang a bong bong bing bong bing banga bong
bing bing bang a bong bong bing bing binga binga banga bong
bing bing bang a bang bang bing bong
aarrrhhhh...
ding dang a dang bong bing bong
ticky ticky thought of a gun
everytime i try to do it all now baby
am i on the run
why why why
it'll ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky
dawn of a gun
bing bing bang a bong a bong bing bang a
ticky ticky thought of a gun
bing bip bip a bop bop boom bam
ticky ticky through the day
if you got a doubt 'bout baby
the memory is on the bed
why why why why why
darlin' uh it don't know
when my time is on
might tell me never do it on his own
if my time was all as is yours
make me burn a wish
when my time with you is brutish
no i'll never not ever
why why why why why why baby heavy hell
alone and it's here it's this thunder
the thunder oh thunder
oh!
jesus built my car
it's a love affair
mainly jesus and my hot rod
yeah, fuck it!
lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
stay lady stay
stay while the night is still ahead
stay lady stay
heaven's dust fills our head
whatever colors you have to have in your mind
i show them down to you so we can shine
stay lady stay
stay with your man a while
till the break of day
then you're gonna see him smile
his clothes are dirty but his hands are clean
and you're the best thing he's ever seen
why wait any longer for the world to begin
you can have your cake and eat it too
why wait any longer for the one you love
when he's standing over you
lay lady lay
lay across my big brass bed
stay lady stay
we're gonna build the whole night ahead
i long to see you in the morning light
i long to reach for you all night
lay lady lay
(3:13)
(spoken sample: "take this first song and uh, dance
i mean this, uh, first, let's start playing and dance.")
well i just shot a man to death
i´ve gotta blow him out of my head
he fired back and then it stopped
a final shot and a final breath
afraid to stop and afraid to check
the smell of fear, the color red
had him with a 2 inch shell
well it´s a brutal smell of death x4
saw my reflection in a spoon.
i had it with my non-adequate excuse
i´ve got a supermanic soul
i´ve pulled the trigger in the record room x2
i put a stop to his loonytoons
i turned him down and then left the room
these are for you
dead - break this
these are for you
dead - break this
dead!
(talking samples)
these are for you
dead - break this
these are for you
dead - break this * 3
wild skies
full moon and thoughts collide
we look for answers in those catatonic, bloodshot eyes
the eyes that vomit are the ones that are in love
those aren't tears,
they're just bad bad blood
just bad bad blood!
wild lives
the big surprise.
we get our clues from what
the funhouse mirrors authorize
a ray of thought turns happy endings into mud
where there's denial, there's bad blood
chorus:
(wailing sample:
do you remember the strain?
do you remember the pain?
do you remember the cause or the blame?)
bad blood!
(wailing sample:
do you remember need?
do you remember lust?
do you surrender your greed or your trust? )
bad blood!
wild eyes
he's finally come alive
how'd all things mediocre
wind up all things all the time
a steady stream of madness
rises to a flood
the clock is ticking for bad blood
chorus.
[fade out...]
practially every one of the top 40 records being played on every radio station in
the united states is a communication to the children to take a trip, to cop out, to
groove. the psychedelic jackets on the record albums have their own hidden symbols
and messages as well as the lyrics to all the top rock songs and they all sing the
same refrain: it's fun to take a trip, put acid in your veins.
i want to reach out and touch the sky
i want to touch the sun but i don't want to fly
i'm gonna climb up every mountain of the moon
i find the distance melts away with the spoon
supernaut
supernaut
i've crossed the ocean, done every land
i found the pot under a golden rainbow's end
i've been through magic and through life's reality
i've lived a thousand years it never bothered me
bothered me
supernaut
bothered me
supernaut
they all sing the same refrain: it's fun to take a trip, put acid in your veins.
got no religion, don't need no friends
got all i want and i got no need to pretend
don't try to reach me, 'cause i'd tear up your mind
i've seen the future and i leave it all behind
supernaut
supernaut