Germs - M.I.A.

rip them down hold them up tell them that i'm your gun pull my trigger i am bigger than- mr. prez in his big white house listen he says we're comin' out infiltration-we're numbin' your minds concentration-we've done time (repeat chorus) over there the queen she says let's stamp them out and dry those tears saturation-we want in taxes flagelation-we've got gashes (repeat chorus) in the cold, the czars claimin' just protectin', rockets aimin' alteration-earth is changin' observation-we want action (repeat chorus) i the emperor proclaim us the masters we rule the game inclination-somethin' to dream on deprivation-we are sons (repeat chorus)

i take it anywhere, any time that i can i am the fucking son of a superman i got a weapon that's as deadly as life it's a well trained tool a master guy every day it's the same, regime a dozen girls are on my scene say sex boy will you come into my hand they're all on the floor i better do what i can take a number, it's supply and demand anytime that i can i'm the fucking son of a superman i got a weapon that's as deadly as life it's a well trained tool a master guy i put my knife into your gut you gotta be above when your above wanna make love say it exactly, sex boy, such a sideshow poster after such a sweet sweet slut any time that i can i'm the fucking son of a superman i know what it takes what in the time that i can and can't do i know what it takes to satisfy you i know what it takes that's why your time is due in the house of fortune i take it out and you know it's gonna come from behind just like you, and you, and you and you

i'm a lexicon devil with a battered brain and i'm lookin' for a future- the world's my aim so gimme gimme your hands- gimme gimme your minds gimme gimme this-gimme gimme tha-yea-yea-t... i want toy tin soldiers that can push and shove i want gunboy rovers that'll wreck this club i'll build you up and level your heads we'll run it my way cold men and politics dead... (chorus) i'll get silver guns to drip old blood let's give this established joke a shove we're gonna wreak havoc on the rancid mill i'm serachin' for something even if i'm killed... (chorus) empty out your pockets-you don't need their change i'm giving you the power to rearrange together we'll run to the highest prop tear it down and let it drop...away... (chorus)

i'm darby crash a social blast chaotic master i'm darby crash your meccas gash prophetic stature i'm darby crash a one way match demonic flasher deep, deep, deep, in my eyes there's a round, round, round, circle of lives it's a tame, tame, tame sort of world where you're caught, bought, taught, as it twirls... i'm darby crash a social blast chaotic master snap, crackle, pop snap, crackle, pop snap, crackle, pop-in here snap, crackle, pop snap, crackle, pop snap, crackle, pop-out there

i've read every book in the bible story and all is every brought me was another worry don't want god give me a jury, see...there's no god to make up my mind- no god givin' me time... i peered in every window where i saw a cross but i could never see just what they saw in that piece of plaster on the wall, see...there's no god to fear- no god to hear your cries... i'd prey to anything out there if only i was given some sign to bear but while i wait i'm gonna live, see...there's no god to watch over me- no god for human beings... when i small i obeyed his every word handed down to me by some thoughtful blur but now i am as big as he, see...no god bigger than i- no god frightening me... in my image i made he him and i gave him life so he burned me, the creature has risen and i think you can see just what it is that's drivin' me around round... we are the church we are good we've got your millions god know we should... (repeat first verse)

standing in the line we're abberations defects in a defect's mirror and we've been here all the time real fixations hidden deep in the furor- what we do is secret-secret! we're influential guys for the d.c.c. we can lie so perfect and we've got a party line to every call it's a very short circuit- what we do is secret-secret! licensed to drill with the torch in our lives, walking on shallow water progressed to the point of no distinction dementia of a higher order- what we do is secret-secret!

i'm looking through communist eyes i'm seeing planes in bloodshot skies i see the flag of a working people who conceal the lies in the stars and sickle it's a double edge communist eyes-c'mon inside i can't ever find the way out communist eyes-lost inside i never get a day out i'm looking through communist eyes all i see is an old man's alibi there's a world outside but i'm unaware i open my books but the pages stare it's a double edge communist eyes-all so blind i can't even play the game now i'm living through communist times i wave my flag and hold me head high i can feel the glory of my comrades in masses but i'm waiting for the day when this madness passes it's a double edge...

land of treason-waste no reason- we are breathing fire we're packs of dogs- we're enemies of men-we are not desired our face show- we've grown cold-but have not conspired old hearts gone- the future's on-mother nations mired i like a recepticle for the chosen dead, we find our bodies clawed and with the scent of death, we find that we are not so very awed loyalties burned- the words our blurred-overturn your own walk like dogs and watch the doors- have your other stone stop the toys that match disordered- calculate the thrones feel the pulse descending- decaying hallowed tomes in the starving sense you worship- the nations of debris you wear a cost of sewage- that you've never ever seen the time is now-the vicious here- a stolen dinner code the license of the savage land- that you've always sold so bite the hand that needs you and bless another coal the virus never issues- from a cotton so very old as the lights come down and the guilty blaze; another sort of road you wash your hands and start to climb the ladder that you stole slip the hatch-and spin the sword- the money lords are poor push the tan-that rolls downhill- their sense of dream absorbed still the cat that breaks the night- tie him to the core chase the viruses that believe- that what's right is scored it's a senseless cash in of right for right- what's wrong is never gone and left is just a bassion for the fools golden dawn

chorus: i'm richie dagger i can stomp and swagge i can take on all your heroes i'm richie dagger i'm young and i'm haggard the boy that nobody owns he sits in his corner like a child despised a crazy sort of cast comes over his eyes- that's richie dagger's crime he's the sort of a boy that was never much loved his idea of fun was society's grudge- that's richie dagger's crime his life was such a mess and his friends weren't quite the best 5 we're vision rapers and we seed the signs you'll play your part in the master mind middle: we lead the science we deal in riots we play by ideal time we're a gov'ment fix all social convicts watch the rhymes chorus bleed your heart out-that's all it's worth before you ever start-and we planned it first forget the turth-accept your cure

billy druids face is marble he keeps veery thought in its place he lets the days turn tomorrow someone's always walking on his grave he wears the lines just like garbo and talks at a saturmine pace listening to the strange notes marvel only giving what it takes it's a sad man's world and for billy it's sure to crown dragging beauty into darkness inflicting a pale white frown and the matter the runs through billy's head is too concerned to fall

looking for a way out i put my foot out of line really like to break-out i feel so confined american leather the poinsous members not alone-not together their american leather saw you on a dark road brought myself along got a sense of conflict but i know what's wrong (chorus, chorus) i know that kinda feeling so i built my place up high but you'll never find me kneeling cause i'm too occupied (chorus)

i came into this world like a puzzled panther wanting to be caged but something stood in the way i was never quite tamed i crossed the paths of right and wrong and saw them take their toll i saw armies that marched and like animals they crawled (chorus) evolution is a process too slow to save my soul but i've got this creature on my back and it just won't let go if i am only an animal then i can do no wrong but they say something better so i've gotta hold on

clara would be proud to know us we've taken it to the end where the grey tuens to black and the white just begins- we live everyday on the water the night just kills the pain from the suffering that was we are no stronger-we are dust- down in the crowd we're down on our knees wanna get out but don't wanna succeed we're the red-eyed legends of the night before we're the dead mind babies of the t.v. war- living in a rectory of sin against the currents we all swim cageless wonders of sometime when the paper icon's chase will end

it's sunday and the streets aren't clear the traffic's screaming but we can't hear the sounds...the metals... driving us mad... the sounds...the metals... driving us mad... we must bleed, we must bleed, we must bleed the crash as the bottle breaks flashes it will through my veins the pain...the colors... making me sane... the pain...the colors... making me sane... the pain...the colors... making me sane... we must bleed, we must bleed, we must bleed i'm not one i'm two, i'm not one i'm two, i'm not one i'm two i want out now, i want out now i want out now now...

i've got television i've got supervision no decisons for you media blitz media blitz immediate hits we rule don't steal your eyes off the tv screen can you realize we're what we've seen take an injection from the mad machine don't read the papers read between the lines we're vision rapers and we seed the signs you'll play your part in the master mind we feed the science we deal in riots we play by ideal time we're a gov'ment fix all social convicts watch the idle rhymes chorus bleed your heart out-that's all it's worth before you ever start-we planned it first forget the truth accept your curse

i feel your body's close to mine i hear your breath and mine in time i know i'm nothing but it's you that i need i touch your skin and it starts to feed you're not the first you're not the last another day another crash my eyes meet yours in secret glance our bodies look in ancient stance you whisper something and i know it's good you're acting crazy just like i knew you would you're not the first you're not the last another day another crash embracing my life between your thighs we will perform in the deadly skies reducing my mind to endless nights you send my dreams to their demise realized by your last vreath i take your hair in to my hands i pull it tight to fit your demands feel my body in to yours know it's right cause that's my soul you stir you're not the first you're not the last another day another crash

out on the streets what ya lookin' for that thing in your bed's just another whore that tear in your eyes not a tear at all for that girl that you touch you could never fall that stream in your mind it's a tearin' sty chorus: let's pretend you're vicious let's pretend you're cool let's pretend suspicious let's pretend you're fools your leather is tight but you wear it full 'gether is right but you gotta be cool you cut your wrists but you don't feel the pain you change your mind but you still feel the same to dream ain't your kind just another lie... chorus sell us a story that we can believe spend your dollars on pills for relief love is a future that you still can't see standing answers to questions are free scream in your boredom life's just to die chorus dive in problems just like stealin' a fix is your life to live or is it for kicks kick dirt in the faces of angry dream men stand on your chairs and spell don't let me in son't stand in the light cuz you know you can't cry chorus chorus

you walk to the temple on the boulevard you know the way in cause you're the son of god she opens the door with a sardonic glance you drop to the floor making your plans chorus: it's a real cool parody that's my dragon lady in a low society with no variety she lives a tongue on cheek dream there's soemthing in her eyes that nature denied she's a whirlwind creature of cultural ties a preacher of schemes and self denial she talks up a storm with news and belial chorus to live in braham tragedy driven it seems by fantasies a life like this is sad to see a smile kept quite in reverie the clock on the matle hands stop crossed the rug on the floors a resting place for the dust the talk of the town yet she's never been seen a loving relation with a well trained machine chorus

it starts in your head and moves to your hands your body starts shakin' cuz you're in demand you do the slave to the beat of the neuro-sutra can can... you're lashed 'twixt the stars with your ice and motor cars: you do the slave to the beat of the neuro-sutra can can oh yea! yea! pull out the zen i've got a buddhist principle in my hand your life seems wasted your bodies laced in don't stop now you've got to trace it... you put your hands together writhe in the shackle you twist your body round till it starts to crackle: you do the slave to the beat of the neuro-sutra can can... right here right now shake it in and out some lights on off now make it spin and fight now

let me touch the tips of inculcated desire and brush the fettered veil away shut down in the depths i lay... if you want nothin' then i've got nothin' i'm your annihilation man lemme get control i've got your minds now i want your souls, lemme get control i've got your minds now i want control, i need control... if you want somethin' then i've got somethin' i'm your annihilation man

though your dark eyes you can feel my every sin when i walk right into a straight line this world of yours i got you caught in my eye, again you're the fall guy in the corner of my gloom it feels like everything i see is nothing new i got you caught in my eye, again there's a door there that opens without you and the door lies with its open keys to my room flames of the torch light fill my thighs and i crave fulfill and i consume 'em but i don't give got you caught in my eye again

i'm crawling through my tunnel when eberything is dim where does one go i crawl in to my tunnel it's kinda shaky may even crumble i'm talking to a lame man when you're maimed where does one go i fall into my tunnel... i'm walking into the jungle when everything is right where does one go i walk into the jungle sometimes i run-sometimes i stumble i'm talking to a saved man when you are sane where does one go back into the jungle out, out, out of the tunnel back, back, to the jungle out, out, out of the tunnel take me back to my jungle

i've been looking, looking so far you've been this thing, listening so hard i've been talking, stalking all night you've been thinking, thinking i'm right- i've been missing, listing some parts i've been falling, calling it art we've been lurking, working for clues we've been whistling, this thing for you trying to make some kinda sense out of it throw it away-throw it away trying to make some kinda sense out of it throw it away-throw it away don't know what i really got don't know if i even thought

feeling not all right my time's in a sand-slide so hard not to unwind find some wall to climb- capsules cover the signs my thoughts in a land mine some lights burn too bright my nights hold too tight- slowed away outta breath won't wait to pass the test too late to answer lies don't even need to try- livin' in a fury life's kinda blurry dtin' in a hurry stories kinda lurid- no time to worry gonna hang the jury broke up kinda early all the bribes are working livin' in a fury life's kinda blurry dtin' in a hurry stories kinda lurid- no time to worry gonna hang the jury broke up kinda early all the scribes are working

sifting through apocalypse all i want's to catch a glimpse just another broken day my whole world's gone away i feel the ceilings coming down i atch the deadmen run around trying hard to chnage the course 'cuase they know what's best for us your whole world's coming down close to the bottom-close to the sound your whole world's let me down drag me down to the under ground sifting through apocalypse already new it would come to this just another game to play how mnay ways have i got to play hear them running faster now they wear the hoove's of satan's crowd you came to visit for just one day but now that you're here- you're here to stay

all he sees are death masked stars the lion's world is cold and sharp all he wants is much too far so he stalks thw roads of token cars- he snarls at winds that mean no harm and takes the thorns in perfect form a broken ideal rides inside the torture lion's denim hide i want the lion's share gather up the broeken chairs feed my mind unholy tests do me in i need to rest he sleep swhen nothing's in the air eats the scraps of some that care he strains the right to overbear secrest hidden in the liar- pauses long enough to dream nightmares push the glowing scream his shadowed eyes show the toll something only lions know