Killing Joke : Democracy

Industrial Electro / United-Kingdom
(1996 - Malicious Damage)
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1. THIS SAVAGE FREEDOM

It's the age of cvs
Contract to contract
And my stress levels rise
This is a job for life - there are no jobs for life
I am forced to a decision
I am forced to the other side
I can see a way out of here
I can see a way out of here

With the hours that we kill
And the dreams that we hide
Of alternative life styles
This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

Playcards of prophets
And great leaders of men
Personality cults
All over again
We'll build shrines for our loved ones
We'll burn fires and lights
And we'll talk of the old ways
To find new ways that might they just might

With the hours that we kill
And the dreams that we hide
Of alternative life styles
This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love

In the villages and hills
On the tundra and ice
To the forests of Kauai
In the paddies of rice
By the lakes on the plains
To the great mountain range
Love the land and it's people
I can see a way out

With the hours that we kill
And the dreams that we hide
Of alternative life styles
This savage freedom I love

This savage freedom I love
This savage freedom I love
This savage freedom I love
This savage freedom I love


2. DEMOCRACY

You have a choice - we are your voice
Red blue or yellow we will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
You'll never get a referendum anyway
Funny handshakes insider dealing
Into 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

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

You have a choice - we are your voice
Red blue or yellow we will blow away the green
Another five lane motorway
You'll never gat a referendum anyway

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


3. PROZAC PEOPLE

I woke up in the darkness and I tried to see the clocks - it was four AM
I was curled up like a foetus and my muscles were stretched taut - I was shaking
I couldn't face the burden of another week of worry - I was broken
I took a green and yellow pil washed down with filter coffee - 'Til it kicked in

Get me out - keep me up
Let me out - keep me up

I was isolated by the way I thought and felt they saw my moodswings
I travelled down the longitude of opposite emotions I bi-polar
In the north they saw my upside my excitable and optimistic spirit
In the south they saw my anger and my tears and my despair they saw my moodswings

Get me out - keep me up
Let me out - keep me up

I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people

Don't monitor this Guinea pig for research any more I will try again
Pharmaceutical conglomerates just count me as a unit for their product
Identify the enemy remove the source of fear start to change my life
It's a false state of elation you can join the prozac nation if you want to

Get me out - keep me up
Let me out - keep me up

I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people

I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people
I was one of the prozac people



4. LANTERNS OF HOPE

Equinox sun summers of fun
No mortgage repayments to weigh my mind

And if it all fell through tomorrow
Put my pack on my back and it's home where the lunatics roam
Faith - faith moved a mountain
Where the rivers are so clean and the consciousness so green
And the luminous folk shine like lanterns of hope

Lanterns of hope shine on
Lanterns of hope

Ribbons of wishes tied to the trees
Hives full of honey yield to the seed

And if it all fell through tomorrow
Put my pack on my back and it's home where the lunatics roam
Faith - faith moved a mountain
Where the rivers are so clean and the consciousness so green
And the luminous folk shine like lanterns of hope

Lanterns of hope shine on
Lanterns of hope

Fire - fire light the lantern
When we drink from the streams
And we grow our own greens
And the fences have all been torn down

Lanterns of hope - lanterns of hope
Lanterns of hope - lanterns of hope
Lanterns of hope - lanterns of hope
Lanterns of hope - lanterns of hope


5. AEON

Denominations of a thousand different deities
Congregations endless carnivals of gaiety
Why should I fear - why should I cling on to anything
It's not how long long I live but how beautiful it is

And I saw crying there was turmoil in the marketplace
I saw economies perpetuate the next arms race
And I felt helpless and there was nothing I could do or say
And then I noticed there's a change that's coming over me

Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon

Myriad experiences of billions of humans
Recorded in the memory the compassion of their god
Beauty defined by disfigurement and symmetry
Re-evaluate the history and reassess the symbols

And I saw crying there was turmoil in the marketplace
I saw economies perpetuate the next arms race
And I felt helpless and there was nothing I could do or say
And then I noticed there's a change that's coming over me

Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon

Balance of the eco-system self-reliance beckons us
Windmills and waterfalls strawberries and lily ponds
When skycrapers no longer block the sun's meridian
When we wake up to the whisper of the voice

Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon
Tapping into the aeon


6. PILGRIMAGE

My values altered I was looking for peace
I was tired in the lands of the west I had to get out
I took a map let the pendulum swing
I wrote a note took my prayer mat and left on a prayer and a wing

And every moment of my life I dedicate to you
And when I fear of falling I am in your hands

Pilgrimage - pilgrimage
Pilgrimage - pilgrimage

Through the archway in the city of light the procession began
I heard their praises rise like incense to heaven
I'd awoken from a long time ago I fell to my knees
I kissed the ground then I started to cry

And every moment of my life I dedicate to you
And when I fear of falling I am in your hands

Pilgrimage - pilgrimage
Pilgrimage - pilgrimage

So wonderful - so wonderful
So wonderful - so wonderful
So wonderful - so wonderful
So wonderful - so wonderful
So wonderful - so wonderful
So wonderful - so wonderful

I saw merchants selling saffron and spice
I felt acceptance for the fate of my life
I was thirsty then I came to a spring I had to have faith
I was hungry you sent a stranger to me she shared out her food

And every moment of my life I dedicate to you
And when I fear of falling I am in your hands

Pilgrimage - pilgrimage
Pilgrimage - pilgrimage
Pilgrimage - pilgrimage
Pilgrimage - pilgrimage




7. INTELLECT

Gold rimmed glasses hypnotise
Acts of love are analysed
Rites of passage rationalised
Reason then gives birth to lies

Don't pull me - don't pull me
Don't pull me down
Don't pull me - don't pull me
Don't pull me down
A dog doesn't question why he barks

Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my

The mind creates monstrosities
Paradise makes the opposite
Constitution of my heart
A clear conscience all I need

Don't pull me - don't pull me
Don't pull me down
Don't pull me - don't pull me
Don't pull me down
A dog doesn't question why he barks

Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my

To feel and cry to move and run
To laugh at hate and overcome
To laugh at fate and go as one
I am happy in this state

Don't pull me - don't pull me
Don't pull me down
Don't pull me - don't pull me
Don't pull me down
A dog doesn't question why he barks

Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my intellect goodbye
Kiss my



8. MEDICINE WHEEL

She walks up by the path into a mountain side
Sedona red the landscape an offering for her life
She starts to rub her red clay across her fair white skin
She starts to dance and play she plays a drum and sings

She builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel

He studied physics there an undergraduate
But in the coffee shop he talks of Gaia's love
He talks of Gaia's love - he talks of Gaia's love
He speaks out how he feels he turns the medicine wheel

He builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
He builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel

I am so grateful
I am so grateful
I am so grateful
I am so grateful

He wields a band of fire to fill his heart's desire
And how the wolves they bay he hears a brand new day
With reverence he plays his song stone by stone he carries on
Following some high ideal he turns the medicine wheel

He turns a medicine wheel
He builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
He builds a medicine wheel
She builds a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel
We build a medicine wheel

I am so grateful
I am so grateful
I am so grateful
I am so grateful


9. ABSENT FRIENDS

I remember the sun beating down across my back
The taste of olives and pleasures that you taught me
And we broke bread and then we drank cheap white wine
Memories of happiness frozen for all time

I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love - love - love - love

And I remember laughing so much we cried
You knew my every thought there was nothing I could hide
We celebrated moons we marvelled at the night sky
With flute and drum and pen we were grateful for our lives

I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love - love - love - love

I hear you crying in my heart
Absent friends shall live by love
Remember places of my past
Absent friends shall live by love
And the dead shall live again
Absent friends shall live by
Love - love - love - love


10. ANOTHER BLOODY ELECTION

Rosette and campaign trails false gestures too much make-up
Elected to serve the public how did you make your fortune
I love your cheesey smile please will you kiss my baby
More cars and endless car parks planning permission granted

Another bloody election
Another bloody election

Cover-ups official statements digest my gospel headlines
Marilyn committed suicide some nut blew JFK away
Mr. Murdoch cares for orphans McDonalds goes eco-friendly
I'm cynical of you there's millions like me too

Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Another bloody election
Another bloody election

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