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Icons of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers (1984)

Icons Of Filth – Onward Christian Soldiers

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WHY SO LIMITED

Are we all so mentally restricted to the lives we lead?
Fear of our own strength & ability to create is all in the mind so limited
When just beyond that barrier lies hope not fear
Minds so limited
Why so limited?
Minds so limited
You’re so limited

MENTALLY MURDERED

Living up to other peoples expectations is the only quality
You need to get on
You end up a million miles from the place you started from
And become mentally a mixture of a million other turds
Mouthing regurgitations of other peoples words
Born an individual with your own life to live
You end up a blank face in a zombie-like crowd
Through the sieve & wrapped in a shroud
It’s a shitty pitiful existence
Tamely you observe
Drained of any resistance
So the status quo stays as it is, perfect bliss
Born an individual with your own life to live You end up a blank face in a
Zombie-like crowd
Easy come
Easy go
Like water in a sieve
Our flesh may be lost forever in a red, blue & white shroud
A life of sub-servience is all we’re allowed
Slaves to other peoples expectations of being up to the mark all along
Born an individual you end up a million miles from the place you started from
Mentally murdered
Meant to be murdered

THEY’VE TAKEN EVERYTHING

I’ve got a name & I’ve been given a number
Been pushed to the ground
So I’m going under
Don’t want to live from day to day on mere pittance
They’ve taken my life & given me an existence

Taken life & given existance
You take my life
You couldn’t take anymore

Could live in peace
But they won’t let us
Could live with freedom
But they just can’t see
Our days are numbered
But they don’t have to be
They’ve taken everything – now they’d kill us
Taken life & given existance
You take my life
You couldn’t take anymore

Raped of everything apart from our dignity
We stand not alone in our strive for equality
As resistance grows & your orders are refused
Take a look around
Used, abused, unamused
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Taken life & given existance
You take my life
You couldn’t take anymore

Let’s think of a new way

FUCKED UP STATE

Life ain’t no fun in this fucked up state
Where they teach you to love in a world of hate
This world they run and treat as their own
Using politics, religion, the queen on her throne

Give us lies and hide the truth
We never doubt so we don’t find the proof
Time to doubt stand face-to-face
They’ve stolen our world, now they run the place

We don’t want your fascist state
We don’t want your world of hate
We don’t want your lies and cons
We don’t want to tag along
We don’t want dividing lines
We don’t want set times
We don’t want your death-work nor its pay
We don’t want to do as you say
We don’t want bright-coloured bribes
We don’t want your fucking lies
We don’t want your politics
We don’t want your violent kicks
We don’t want your nuclear power
We don’t want your doomsday hour
We don’t want to live in fear
We don’t want polluted air
We don’t want the atomic risk
We don’t have to live like this!

PRESENT AND HISTORY

Your cord is cut
Your arse is smacked
We’ll take the piss all your life
We’ll show you strife
You don’t know nothing sonny Jim
If we have anything to do with it
You never will
We’ve got you brained we’ll have you trained
To crawl
To kill
Protected from the start
Rejected with no heart
Respect your elders
We’re your chain welders
Protected from what?
You’re always in the dark
Rejections what you’ve got
Yet you still play your part
You don’t do what you want to
You do what you’re told to
But of course you never realise you’re not supposed to
So now you’re taught their morality, their law
So you can’t see they’re stealing your feelings
They need your acceptance to bury the lies
They’ve fed your ears with those lies
If you can’t see this
Then they’ve got your eyes
You see? They do!
You must listen all the time
Obey & shut yours
Otherwise they’ll have you behind closed doors
Fly their flag & sing their songs
Protect their power by building bombs
They have killed millions throughout the ages
Do you turn a blind eye once again & once again pay the consequences
Every time in the past when we’ve drunk their piss
They’ve taken off their velvet glove…… & shown us their fist

DIVIDING LINE

We the coin
They the meter
They the arse
We the excretion
They the system and we’re part of it
They the flies
We the shit
They lay down laws so they can rest
They the oppressors
We the oppressed
They clap their hands so we jump
They commit the crime
We take the brunt
They declare war
We pull the trigger
They the fascist
We the nigga
They issue the boots
We do the marching
They the pissed
We left parching
They click fingers
We push the button
People starving because of gluttons
They the captain of this sinking ship
They only the clasp, we tighten their grip

SOD THE CHILDREN

Sometimes the silly things children say do and ask
Don’t seem quite so silly when thought about closely
They ask why feeding the needy should be such a task
We feed them politics
They ask straightforward and down to earth questions
Which merit reasonable no-nonsense answers
But in our own ignorance to the points children raise
We feed them bullshit
They push the meat aside
Only to be force-fed
Maybe subconsciously
They question the malnutrition & starvation of children their own age
So far away
We feed them next to nothing
Sod the children
Sod future generations
Let’s be grown ups
Let’s force feed our children their inheritance of our failure to understand
And respect
We feed on each other
Cannibals
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SHOW US YOU CARE

I’m over here in the cage
Take a real good look at my face
I smoked twenty fags today
The pain from the experiment has gone away…
But it’ll be back soon & I hope I don’t live through it
I hope I’ll die
Breathe my last breath
A way out of a fate worse than death
My pain to ease yours
It’s a raw deal my rights for your ignorance greed and vanity
But I forgot, curiosity rules
I mean nothing and you just couldn’t care
But you don’t bloody care & it just ain’t fair that I’ve got screws in my
Head
Or if I wind up dead
Or if I look pathetic
Or if I’ll get an anesthetic
Or if I meow or scream for your cosmetic cream
Or if they swap my heart
Or if I’m torn apart
They torment my brain again and again
Or if they swell up my eyes or increase my size
Or if I’m strapped and trapped to a table or chair
C’mon admit it you just don’t care
If they rip me open and just start poking around
For a remedy to an illness which doesn’t exist
Or if they start again for something they’ve missed
I must have rights and I want my share
But if only, if only you’d show us you care
You know I’ve rights & I want my share
But if only, if only you’d show us you care
’Cos you can’t understand my voice
Somehow it always leaves me no choice
I can’t expect you to voice my rights
When you don’t even voice your own
Because of your ignorance I guess we’ll always pay
We fellow beings just hope you’ll realise on day
That we’ve got lots in common
One is that were both downtrodden by the people
Who’ve got big plans for this nation
You see they even test animals with chemical warfare
Weapons effects & riot control agents & radiation & whilst you’re ignoring
There’s a big bang coming
Maybe you owe it to yourselves to show us you care
So come on and free us
Free us….. I dare

DEATH IS THE ONLY RELEASE

Bodies clamped firmly in position
Ripped open
Animal fission
Taken beyond the pain barrier and back again
Death is the only release
Liberation please

ONE SECOND TO MIDNIGHT

The world’s in torment
Propaganda reigns
To keep us quiet ’til the fallout rains
Well I ain’t gonna shut my trap
’Cos my life’s my life & I’m shouting back
The world’s an asylum
“We’ve got the most weapons”
Said the eagle to the bear
“Well ours are bigger, so there”
Said bear
“Well, let’s have a war then we’ll see who’s best”
Simple, light, heat, blast, radiation, death
The world’s an asylum

(Chorus) The world’s an asylum & I’m sitting in it’s cell
Don’t feel sorry for me
’Cos you are as well
Who are these people to rule us & spurn us?
Who are these people to ridicule then burn us?
Its their personal battle & they threaten mankind
Light, heat, blast, leave me blind
The world’s an asylum
They’d never stop to think how we feel
They’d bloody our shit & vomit & make our skins
Peel & turn our statures into hideous things
No thanks to them & their blindness
The death bells ring
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Doomsday calls
& its…..
One second to midnight
(Midnight)

MIDNIGHT

Realise death ’cos death is real
Or it’ll be too late
If you don’t fight this death
This death you create
As the fireball expands & begins to rise
As the fireball expands & begins to rise
Our moulded stupidity horribly seen through burnt out eyes
As the fireball expands & begins to rise
A nuclear holocaust
A sight for sore eyes
See the children’s eyes, hear the peoples cries
As the fireball expands & begins to rise

ONWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS

I don’t mind slaving all my life
For the benefit of others
Who were born into privilege
Who tear the earth apart with their self-importance & greed
Because those who tear the earth apart
With their self-importance & greed
Have convinced me that it’s all I’m fit for
Have convinced me that it’s my purpose
Have convinced me that it’s what I’m here for
I don’t mind killing all my life
For the benefit of others who were born into privilege
Who tear the earth apart
With the fear they instill with their wars
Because those who tear the earth apart
With the fear they instill with their wars
Have convinced me they are worth dying & killing for
Have convinced me god is worth dying & killing for
Have convinced me lies are worth dying & killing for
I don’t mind being a pawn all my life
For the stupidity of others
Who were born into privilege
Who tear the earth apart
With their assurance of life after death
Because those who tear the earth apart
With their assurance of life after death
Have convinced me that my shitty life will be compensated
For when I’ve finished feeding their mouths & lining
Their pockets& fighting their wars & believing their lies
I will live peacefully ever after in some imaginary Christian utopia
In heaven with god
In harmony
Onward Christian Soldiers
Another life awaits
(Lies & assurances of something better in the future always
Makes us happy with the shit we have at present)

SELF STYLED SUPERIORITY

Man’s got the capability
For the ultimate stupidity
Man can conquer all
Man can destroy it all
Man is so small, yet man can do it all
Man is obsessed with power & things that’ll give him power
Over all fellow beings to use
If ever he feels threatened or if he feels he’s coming second
Man sits proudly on top of the pile
Proudly on to of the stockpile
All else rots
Away
Meanwhile…. Men, women, children & animals get crushed in his systems
Machinery
Labeled with inferiority
Mans biggest mistake is his self-styled superiority
Man’s got the capability for the ultimate stupidity
Man can conquer all
Man can destroy it all
Man is so small, yet man can do it all
Man the most intelligent of all beings?
Yet man is so ignorant to all others feelings
Insensitive, incompetent, uncaring man
Swallows up all others cultures
Enemy of the earth with ‘progress’
Homo sapiens suppress
Blow over cities
So great an achievement
From which nothing can be achieved
Setting aside destruction & radioactive bodies of all types, colours & creeds
This is the food on which progress feeds
But surely this ain’t progress
It’s the regress of mans self-styled superiority
Man’s got the capability for the ultimate stupidity
Man can conquer all
Man can destroy it all
Man is so small, yet man can do it all
Man has learnt to…. Destroy
Murder, rob, hate, con, waste & torture…. & all legally
Then man has learnt nothing

POWER FOR POWER

They’d destroy this world they treat as theirs but say is ours
Destroy us with their wars & nuclear power
Fool us with their lies about radiation
Fool themselves they’ll be the remainder of the nation
They won’t just give up their atomic shit
They just act bland
Stand up & argue
Make your stand
You’re better active today
Than radioactive tomorrow
They’d destroy this world they treat as theirs but say is ours
They need nukes for profit & power
Fight back
Don’t cower
Our victory in reality means facing it, not running from it
They won’t give up their dangerous death games
They just act bland
Its up to us to make a stand
Stand up & argue
Make your stand
They need nukes for profit & power
Fight back
Don’t cower
One form of power for another form of power
Power for power

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