2. Paranoid World Vision

One morning I awoke
Two men on my doorstep
Enforcing states's meaning on the word criminal
It's a new definition
That fits their paranoid vision
It's the King James version
Trying to imprison half the world

Everyone is a potential victim
Of the new rights moral crusade

They've got the power
Clad in body armour
A pig with a shotgun
An eager dog to watch over you
They've got your name in their computer
And they are keeping track of everything you do

In their eyes everyone is guilty
So you become victims to their accusations
So you face their threats and ultimatum
So your hands are tied tightly by their legislation

I've got to worry about my security
About fat fucking pigs
Who read the bible as a historical source
Loading their shotguns
While reading revelations
Some fat baptist cop
Comes to kick down your front door

3. Dreams

How much shit can we take
Another law, more police
To impress upon us their demands
The iron rule of their morality

Responsibility
Providing our own needs
We could learn to depend on ourselves

No concessions for the politicians
All they have done is export our jobs
See the police and the president on television
I want to incite a mob to find and kill them
Reaching out to be left alone
By the lawyers and property owners
Live my life
Fuck their schemes
The time is right for my own dreams

4. North Richland

A place of three rives so lovely, beautiful and serene
On a sunbright summer day it's almost like living in a dream

But there's something in the air
Something going wrong downwind from here
SO bad it's impossible to count the dead and dying
Mindless faceless scientists quickly remain silent
Questions left unanswered about the N Reactor

The people on the surrounding farmlands
Know exactly what they're scared of
They don't want to endure another lethal dose of radiation

North Richland is a relic of the Cold War which
In it's little mind it is still fighting
Crying to restart the N Reactor
As the body count keeps mounting

The poison is in the air
The poison is in the water
The atomic scourge an accident
Not waiting to happen

Hanford has created problems that will never go away
Assurances of safety mark the slow process to the grave

5. Shit Edge

6. Nation Of Sheep

Alienation has become a way of life
Amongst these concrete structures
You're put out and shoved down
If you fail to perform your function
Still you want to preserve this nation
Proudly patriotic
As you scrape by on minimum wage
Simply idiotic

I can't believe you people don't fuck it up
Start turning up the heat
Let's go trash the homes of those
Who've put two million people on the street

People too scared to fuck it up
Just a nation of sheep
Jump at the chance to be like those
Who have forced you into poverty

Raised in plastic communities
Where you're taught not to care
Wasting your life with their threat and your fear
Everyone keeps playing
And the wheels keep on turning
Slowly but surely
Rolling over you

(Side B)
7. Fish People

Scenes of pristine granduer
Amidst the sounds of hymns and strife
Congest the entrance to aborion clinics
Under the guise of "Right to Life"

Priveleged entertainment
At the expense of chosen few
Whose lives have forced them to decide
That they don't agree with you

Self righteous pleas imbued with christian lies
Playing God's disciples at the expense of women's lives

Feeding on emotions
Use their pain to masturbate
Cloak your mission in faith and love
Though it's root is really hate

You want adoption for the babies
Whose skin is lilly white
But lock the blacks and browns away
Off your mind and out of sight

Right to life
Such a cute cliché
But what about the product
In prisons locked away

Hypocrisy is your way
Saving life gives you a scare
Or else we'd see a million christians
Blocking electric chairs

You christian fuck with your eyes that leer
The tables will be turned the day that you smell fear

It's not too far away, the time for other's fun
Keeping you out of your church at the barrel of a gun

8. Christian's Crack Diary

Every cop on the street now carries
A semi automatic gun
Their finger rests on the trigger
It's the war on drugs
As cocaine seizures are staged by DEA
And their occupation government
Moves into your neighbourhood to stay

Cocaine is media big business
It's never going to end
Putting more police on the street
To control not to defend

On the street you're all alone
In a cop created free fire zone
New fuedalism in effect
To get out use your head
They got a deal and they want to push it further
Let's legalise the shit before it puts us under

Violent cities full of hate
You won't get out
There's no escape
You'll die without a warning

9. Down

Trying to cope with stress
Feelings of emptiness
I'm told in everyone's life there comes a time
Where you stumble along the way
To a point where you have a say
And get sentenced to the grind

But I know now there is no way of controlling
I won't sit around null and void
On the day when it all surrounds me
I'll take all when I go
                                down
Amidst the trash scattered on the ground
Blood boils inside me
It's fire screaming
Individual achieve
By all that's in knowing
This desire inside me keeps growing

Rifle my parents house
Find all their drugs and money
This is the reward
For sucking corporate ass

I'm feeling really tired of seeing
Whole lives up for hire
This is what they want me to have
They stand in the way
Trying to slow your pace
So you fall victim to old age

10. In On Your Joke (In memory of Mitch Snyder)

It's your story
… and I'm just the antithesis
It's your american dream
… and here I sit in this fucking nightmare

Watching you
Biding time
And speaking lines
And I'm wondering why you're even here at all

It's your salvation that leaves me in eternal hell
It's your complacent life of shit
That leaves me choking on the smell of;

Ruined lives and wasted minds and doomed ideas

That leave people shot down in the street
Children cold with nothing to eat
The homeless with their shoeless feet
While fatcats and their wealthy hags
Pass people living out of bags

Shit!  Can't someone give me hope?
Your goal in life is to live until you die
My goal in death is to escape this pathetic human sty

Cause when the air is poison
And the raindrops burn
And sex is death
It's hard for me to see what's left

But when generals are struck dead from the sky
And politicians are victims of their lies
When all the cops are locked in jail
And all the priests have gone to hell
When lawyers rot in growing heaps
And all world leaders are buried deep

That's the day!
That's the day I'll find my hope

11. Sleep Of Reason

You watched your war from T.V. screens
Immune from pain and human screams
You saw destruction from the sky
But never once viewed those who died

The haunting sight of blood soaked sand
That never burdened "T.V. land"
Watched our nation swallow shit
And made the war a prime time hit

The war was just a passing fad
Just yellow ribbons nothing bad
No need to watch the senseless slaughter
Of loving mother's sons and daughters

No tears shed
For pre-empted dead

12. Caveat Emptor

You're victims of the hypnotist

Waving flags and clenching fists
Believing that you're really pissed
About the affairs of foreign kings

Like sailors as sirens sing
To die you'll do almost anything

Intentions made of gold
You're hands are soaked with blood
You cannot justify
The innocents who died

Your nation is no pining saint

Despite the picture that it paints
Our action leave a marring taint
When judged upon the human scale

The actions of the east will pale
With the carnage by the west wholesale

And you have the nerve to say
That patriots today
Must look the other way
You're murderers for ignoring what they do

13. Folsom Prison Blues