Killing Joke - 25 Gathering: Let Us Prey (2007) by Killing Joke (보컬) on maniadb.com

I see patterns in the wind and in the sand
I see the stars, i read the clouds, i understand
Then the madness overwhelmed (i lost control)
It was cut out for each stain upon my soul

All who died (and everything is alive)
Communion

I saw a man, i knew his face, he called my name
And the house i'd never seen still looked the same
Then i found all my possessions by the fire
The physical world fell into place i had all i desired

The mind begins to doubt what the heart already knows
Reason gives into rhyme, mind begins to blow
Reoccurring people numbers faces
And i abandon all my need for explanation

The atmosphere's strange
Out on the town
Music for pleasure
It's not music no more
Music to dance to
Music to move
This is music to march to
do a war dance

A war dance

Look at graffitti
Scrawled on the wall
You know the the reason
Outside the door
You got something
Nasty in your mind
Trying to get out
do a war dance

A war dance

You've opened the pit
Honesty is sick
You try to be honest
Look what you get
The foods run short
And then the money talks
One way out
Your premonition is correct

A war dance

All time was left behind
I made my way to the basic man assembly
Music filled the air and voices sing
Snd then the song became alive

Stick hit the skin - i hit the stick
And we've all been keeping time
And all the boys been playing the drums
Let's make our way to song and dance - continue
And then the song became alive - song and dance

I've seen a place - set in time
And pillars tall in my sight
Then i heard voices sing
Sweet in the air [they fell through]
Haunting you
And then the song became alive - song and dance

Ways we've lost come flooding back now
Then my ancestors awake
(then i forgot myself)
And in our joy they take their joy
And in their skills we take our skills
Then all the lines between are gone
Then all the lines between are gone

Stick hit the skin - i hit the stick
And we've all been keeping time
So all you boys keep playing the drums
Let's make our way to song and dance - continue
And then the song became alive - song and dance

Song and dance - let's make our way

Primitive feeling
Primitive way
Getting closer
To the primitive day
Intuition
Wherever it goes
The primitive day
The primitive way

Primitive feeling
Primitive way
Getting closer
To the primitive day
Follow the feeling
Wherever it goes
The primitive day
The primitive way

Just enough water to ensurface the world
Oil baron running the government
So I'll start a war

All votes invalid, use any old lie
Gonna carve up your wealth, like pumpkin pie
Only fools won't realise and won't be told
that empires run on the old black gold

It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
It's a total invasion!

Terrify them, complete submission
This is our goal, this is our mission
Destroy your customs, you'll have no say
We'll clothe your women in the western way

It's a fucking crusade
A lesson trade
So all you intellectuals
We're gonna invade

It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
It's a total invasion!

The final push, the last battle
Even restored? Man is cattle
We want your oil, we want your land
We'll take your wealth, you'll have much less
We'll change your God to the "Bitch Goddess"

It's a global abrasion
It's consecration
United Nations
It's a total invasion!

Man watching video
The heart keeps on ticking.
He doesnt know why
He's just cattle for slaughter.
The Requiem
The Requiem
The Requieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem
When the meaningful words
When they cease to function
When there's nothing to say
When will they start plotting against you
The requiem
The requiem
The requieeeeeeeeeeeeeem
Only a hint of religion
Uncensored truths for the novelty.
the sound of breaking glas
this is a reflection
The requiem
The requiem
The requiem
The

And the 3rd Angel sounded
And a star fell from heaven
Burning as it were a lamp
And it fell upon the 3rd part of the waters

Asteroid

I'm a ball of fire
Fire from heaven
Terror from nowhere
You'll never shoot me down
Days turns to minutes
5 seconds till it hits us
3 seconds to ground
1 second to ….

Asteroid
Coming in from the void

On the bed of the ocean
Where history lies
Strange civilisations
Vapourised
Days turns to minutes
5 seconds till it hits us
3 seconds to ground
1 second to ….

Asteroid

I.N.R.I
Nature renewed by fire made whole

And I climb to the mountain
Light to dark
Behind time and space
A hole in your Ark
Days turns to minutes
5 seconds till it hits us
3 seconds to ground
1 second to ….

Asteroid

Motives changing
Day to day
The fire increases
Mass decay
I look at the river
White foam floats down
The bodies poisoned
Gotta sit tight

The wait

After awakening
The silence grows
Screams subside
Distortion shows
Mutant thought
Of bad mouthed news
It's just another birth
Of distorted views

The wait

You're alone in the pack, you're feeling like you want to go home
You're feeling life's finished but you keep on going
The reason is there, you won't find it till you've been and gone
Because you're living a hoax - someones got you sussed!

Dull your brain, or seek inspiration
You peel illusion, and then you find its a transfer
Drugs for the machine, to play with your head
So you can stand back and watch, or take part and learn

If you don't know the game, then you're still part of it
Because out on the streets it's strange to see the show
Knowing full well that you're on the range
Dodge the bullets or carry the gun, the choice is yours

Look at the controller, a Nazi with a social degree
A middle-class hero, a rapist with your eyes on me
You beast for masturbation, a priests cheer to the nuns you fuck
You'd wipe out spastics if you had the chance but Jesus wouldn't like it

There was a rhyme that wasn't a rhyme
In a time that wasn't a time
There was a place that wasn't a place
There was a race that wasn't a race

But I lived in a city no-one knew
Thousands of people, indecisions
Chained in by sorrow everyone
Started to wonder how it all begun
Waiting for leaders to lead them to pens
Queues went for miles and millions to come
Fall of because write us a few
Friend kept complaining and joined the queue!

Still was a place that wasn't a place
Still a race that wasn't a race
Had to find it, it wasn't 'round here
Such a thought - a simple idea
Long hall and benches, flesh on the spit
Music was playing, wine to drink
Women of scarlet, faces of flame
Laughter and argue, ever the same

We watch them going nowhere, kicking the football
No purpose...??the point boys?? in oblivion
Or play games so child-like...they want to win
Look out my windowsill watch bloodshed

We watch the sun go down
We watch the sun go down...down...

Sleeping dogs always lie...stay sleeping
??To panic...they play so??...stay sleeping
Look out my windowsill watch wastelands
Look out my windowsill watch bloodshed

We watch the sun go down
We watch the sun go down...down...

We watch them going nowhere, kicking the football
No purpose...??the point boys?? in oblivion
Or play games so child-like...they want to win
Look out my windowsill...a man went mad

We watch the sun go down
We watch the sun go down
We watch the sun go down
We watch the sun go down...down...

Our destination is nowhere
Our feelings are destroyed
We've got nothing at all
This is life in the fall
We keep searching for the positive
We're using everything
We got nothing at all
This is life in the fall

Are you receiving... Are you receiving... Are you receiving

When you're watching TV...??tweaty?? lunacy
We'll treat your heads with our ideas of space
We're like a beam to infinity
We'll let you use your ??mind??
Don't you see what we mean
I'm sure you'll understand...yeah

Are you receiving... Are you receiving... Are you receiving

There's some survival here
It's so boring out there
To find a group control
Cause they're frightened of your soul
But my motivation...shuffled admiration
???? to say it's getting subtle

This is an order from the United Police Force of Great Britain
The minds of the young people today are being infiltrated by the
so-called "beat generation"
These people's identification are on file
We have orders from the new government to detain these people
immediately
These people must be detained immediately
These people must be detained immediately
Ha Ha Ha

Are you receiving... Are you receiving... Are you
receiving...receiving...receiving...receiving
Are you receiving... Are you receiving... Are you
receiving...receiving...receiving...receiving

We must play our lives like soldiers in the field
The life is short, I'm running faster all the time
Strength and beauty destined to decay
So cut the rose in full bloom

'Til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
'Til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood

Everyday through all frustration and despair
Love and hate fight with burning hearts
'Til legends live and man is god again
And self-preservation rules the day no more

We must dream of promised lands and fields
That never fade in season
As we move towards no end, we learn to die
Red tears are shed on grey

'Til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
'Til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood

'Til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood
'Til the fearless come and the act is done
A love like blood, a love like blood

She talks of supernatural aeons that we'll make
She says "look behind the wave of changes" feel the future taking shape

I can see tomorrow
I can see the world to come
I can see tomorrow
Hear the pandemonium

I ask her of her next of kin and loved ones in her care
She gestures all around her then she whispers "everywhere
"There is no nuclear family required any more
"My parents are the village and the village is the law"

She said "unlearn you must forget the values that you hold
"Life is not longevity and beauty is the only goal"

Cymbals that crash and pipes of pan awaken from your trance
There is no retribution here see how the heathen dance


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The prisoner sat motionless, his cell was six by four.
He walked to the horizon without walking through the door.
We found ourselves converging as we walked towards the sun.
Apart from all discussion, we were functioning as one.

I can see tomorrow
I can see the world to come
I can see tomorrow
Hear the pandemonium