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MISS BLACK AMERICA
You used to be the life and soul
Now you practice and preach self-control
Yeah, you are obsessed with privacy but there’s none
Six billion mobile phones
There’s no escape
Trust no-one
Shout it out until your blood runs cold
Shout it out until your lungs explode
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
What happened to your urge to destroy
And your mission to bring the noise?
Two young boys wanking over atlases
Six billion empty heads
Death to the living dead
Shout it out until your blood runs cold
Shout it out until your lungs explode
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
Shout it out,
“They won’t take us alive
“We are beyond embarrassment
“We want real lives
“And we’ll get them, yes, you’ll see”
So, shout it out
Shout a hard thing and a mean thing
Let the hatred flow free
Be an obscene thing
Be obscene
I am Miss Black America.
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PERSONAL POLITICS
It’s not intent that makes us liars
But desire to please
And be more than we ever could be
In a million years
And all our failures are demons
We must conquer if we are to be strong
It’s not just the looks that make these eyes sore
It’s the lifestyle, baby
Not everybody gets to win
But I will win, ‘cause I can win
Yeah, I will beat this thing for you
I will conquer
I will learn to be strong
But it’s just words that count for nothing
Personal politics
Empty words
It’s just pointless words that make us liars
Oh, we do it every time
Hack, hack away at your demons
But they still eat you alive
Now you’ve seen more than you wanted to know
You use staples to keep your eyes closed
People talk
People talk and talk
They go on and on and on
But it’s just words that count for nothing
Personal politics
Empty words
It’s just pointless words that make us liars
Oh, we do it every time
I’d do anything for self-control sometimes
Death to all liars
Death to us all.
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ROADKILL
Did I see our star collapsing
Or was it my imagination?
We’ve been crushed and we’ve been broken
Still we stand
The Earth is flat and full of corpses
We fuck our sisters to stop the bleeding
Another careless copulation
Another gaping mouth to feed
It’s no wonder we all break beneath the weight of our regret
Like Chinese water torture it goes drip, drip, drip, drip
The best thing about the past is that it’s already gone
So you don’t have to nail yourself to someone else’s cross
We don’t kill to cure the boredom
We like our vengeance to be painless
So we just sit and watch the roadkill
Take it time and time again
This backward life is just existence
We always hoped people would forget
But like the stink and my erection
These things never go away
It takes strength to stand this straight beneath the weight of our regret
Like Chinese water torture it goes drip, drip, drip, drip
The best thing about the past is that it’s already gone
So you don’t have to nail yourself to someone else’s cross
Anymore
We love you so much it should make us puke
But we don’t eat ‘cause we’re too cool
And when the cupboards are all empty
And the table is bare
And the hand that rocked the cradle rules the World
And we’ve been wiped out
We eat roadkill.
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TALK HARD
I am not washed-up
I should believe I am but I do not
I still read all their ungraded hatemail
Fourteen long years of school
And all I learned was to fail
But I am not proud
To rot with that crowd
‘Cause I am stronger
I was born in a force ten gale
It takes more than hot air to blow the wind out of my sails
And my eyesight’s poor
But I am the future
Hear me roar
And get ready to talk hard
Know this: your head is not empty
So talk hard
You can do anything you feel
“Toilet-trained and dumb”
When we first talk we learn by rote,
“We are scum
“We come from nothing? That’s what we deserve”
Classrooms crowded with robots
We are Goebbels’ children
But we’re not down yet
Don’t let them forget
That we are stronger
You were born
‘Til the day you die, you are alive
While you’ve got the time
At least try to justify yourself
The buck stops with you and no-one else
So get ready to talk hard
Know this: your head is not empty
So talk hard
You can do anything you feel.
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INFINITE CHINESE BOX
On a speedway
Crashing your car
To see your face drop
Who is the victim?
You’re awaiting my transmission
An infinite Chinese box to get lost in
All that you see is a replay
Every time you close your eyes, I’m there
Crashing over and over again
An infinite Chinese box to get lost in
Deal you in
Cash you out
Deal you in
Crash you out.
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TALK HARD
I am not washed-up
I should believe I am but I do not
I still read all their ungraded hatemail
Fourteen long years of school
And all I learned was to fail
But I am not proud
To rot with that crowd
‘Cause I am stronger
I was born in a force ten gale
It takes more than hot air to blow the wind out of my sails
And my eyesight’s poor
But I am the future
Hear me roar
And get ready to talk hard
Know this: your head is not empty
So talk hard
You can do anything you feel
“Toilet-trained and dumb”
When we first talk we learn by rote,
“We are scum
“You come from nothing? That’s what you deserve”
Classrooms crowded with robots
We are Goebbels’ children
But we’re not down yet
Don’t let them forget
That we are stronger
You were born
‘Til the day you die, you are alive
While you’ve got the time
At least try to justify yourself
The buck stops with you and no-one else
So get ready to talk hard
Know this: your head is not empty
So talk hard
You can do anything you feel
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ALWAYS
Forget what you’ve bought into
The highlife is within you
You’re just too scared to look inside
For fear of what you might find
What do you see when you turn out the light?
I can’t tell you, but I know it’s not mine
And we’re no better by design
This one-horse life’s over before we know it’s started
Thinking of the time
Thinking of the time we spent
It’s hard not to laugh
When they say time and time again,
“I love you, always”
Free will lavishes you with
A choice of one direction:
March on towards your destiny
There is no alternative
The lady’s not for turning
The ends don’t justify the means
And we’re no better by default
Or worth our salt
Or weight in gold
Just plants and rags
Thinking of the time
Thinking of the time wasted
It’s hard not to laugh
When they say time and time again,
That sick joke, “Always”
And when, gnarled and gibbering,
Incontinent, abandoned and forgotten we sit
Chewing over time
Chewing over time
We can’t swallow, we can’t digest
Darling,
Don’t offer false comfort
Never say, “Always.”
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MISS BLACK AMERICA
You used to be the life and soul
Now you practice and preach self-control
Yeah, you are obsessed with privacy but there’s none
Six billion mobile phones
There’s no escape
Trust no-one
Shout it out until your blood runs cold
Shout it out until your lungs explode
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
What happened to your urge to destroy
And your mission to bring the noise?
Two young boys wanking over atlases
Six billion empty heads
Death to the living dead
Shout it out until your blood runs cold
Shout it out until your lungs explode
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
Shout it out, “I am Miss Black America”
Shout it out, “They won’t take us alive
“We are beyond embarrassment
“We want real lives
“And we’ll get them, yes, you’ll see”
So, shout it out
Shout a hard thing and a mean thing
Let the hatred flow free
Be an obscene thing
Be obscene
I am Miss Black America.
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LIQUID SILK
Your trails of blood and spunk
Will not lead back to us
All history is bunk,
Forever impotent and dry
Nostalgia is a dog returning to its vomit
No beauty without decay
Forever impotent
Liquid silk
Your secrets are safe with me
I keep them locked away here in my heart
Love is bearing what you can’t bear to see
It’s a miracle
A miracle
So it’s too hard to see this through?
Well, some of us have
You throw caution to the wind
Then you reel it back again
Between liberty and restraint
Forever impotent and dry
You wanna be kept tied up
But you wanna be satisfied
And you’re somewhere in between,
Forever impotent
Liquid silk
Your secrets are safe with me
I keep them locked away here in my heart
Love is bearing what you can’t bear to see
It’s a miracle
A miracle
So it’s too hard to see this through?
Well, some of us have.
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SMILE, YOU’RE ON FIRE
Enough is enough
Cynicism is mental virginity
It’s time to tear that straitjacket off
And take the monster on
Face it, face-to-face
Gouge its eyes out
Saw its legs off
Saw its legs off
And let it sink
Sink into the sea
Let it fall
Into pieces
Smile, you’re on fire
We love Uncle Sam
He will drop the bomb
Make a “Who’s Got The Biggest Cock” competition
From genuine tragedies
A miracle!
Blood and water
Blood and urine
Innocent blood for innocent blood
Unholy war
Useless martyrs
Smile, you’re on fire.
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CAR CRASH FOR A SOUL
Skilled, professional teams have created,
In magnificent sweatshops,
This gold-plated
Plastic gangster with a car crash for a soul
Keep the motor running
Let the good times roll
On over the precipice
My life came flat-packed
Inside it’s falling to pieces
But the surface remains intact
At the drive-in with a car crash for a soul
You call this a party?
It feels like a funeral
And we thought we’d died alone
These brain-dead functions never felt like fun
And now’s the time for us to say,
“If we’re gonna crash, they’re gonna pay”
Tonight we shine so bright
Tonight we kill the light
Our star is rising
Yours is falling
Shopping’s just like sex in pornos:
Urgent and joyless
I’m so modern everything is pointless
With this smashed-up, burned out car crash for a soul
There’s no big “fuck you”
We just lost all self-control
And we thought we’d died alone
These branded boxes never felt like home
And now’s the time for us to say,
“If they’re gonna screw these corpses, they’re gonna pay”
Tonight we shine so bright
Tonight we kill the light
Our star is rising
Yours is falling.
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THE WHITE NOISE INC.
You talk about a class war between “us” and “them”
The beautiful freaks and the straight, white men
Despite what the beautiful people believe
You don’t inherit the Earth through vanity
It’s not your commitment to the cause that’s in doubt
But how you’ll make a big noise with a cock in your mouth
Despite what the downtrodden people believe
You don’t inherit the Earth through being meek
Dance, dance, baby
Let the white noise take you over
Dance, dance, baby
The White Noise Incorporated
Dance, dance, baby
Let the white noise take you over
Dance, baby, dance
We will rock you like a hurricane.
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Human Punk
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Scream For Me
03:11
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The White Noise Inc
10:01
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