Twitch
Album Name: Twitch
Produced By: Adrian Sherwood
Release Date: 1986
Record Label: Sire/Warner Bros. - 25309-2
- Just Like You
- We Believe
- All Day
- The Angel
- Over The Shoulder
- My Possession
- Where You At Now
- Crash And Burn
- Isle Of Man
Standing on corners And begging for quarters For what For you (and you) Busting my head Cause that's what you said For all of us Fuck you Uh huh Just like you People are happy When they're not so trapped by someone Just like you (and you) Many more years Of nothing but fear of anything you do 1980's was run by a person who's crazy Like you (and you) 1990's will be unkindly exactly Like you (and you) Just like you (and you) You Well one dictator Is the same as the later Just like you (and you) We work We survive Just like you (and you) We work, we twitch You (and you) Just like you
Standing round the table Spinning fables And signing autographs Can't you hear them laugh Ha ha ha ha ha In their secrecies They plan their strategies It's called hypocrisy And we believe Warnings They tell me everything That i need to know Or i care to know Well i can visualize The look in your eyes The horror As the plane goes down And the siren sounds We can't believe We can't believe In the east where the bear is dancing In the west where the eagle flies In the middle we stand our ground The forces pull us down down down Tensions on both sides We're paralyzed and victimized We're terrified and petrified Demoralized and mortified Of genocide and suicide And patricide and cyanide We're pacified by every side Force-fed pride and then we die for them We die for them In the east where the bear is dancing In the west where the eagle flies In the middle we stand our ground The forces pull us down down down We believe
Well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun And i keep on working till the work is all done But a voice in my head keeps ticking away As the sweat pours down from yet another day Well he works on And he lives on And he breaks his back without nothing to gain While the boss man sits around and drinks champagne All day In life, there's just one transition All day In life, there's just one decision Well i'm peeling the blisters off a working hand Is that what it takes to make you understand That it's something you read Not something you meant To be slaving away without a shred of intent Well he worked on Oh, and he lived on And he broke his back without nothing to say While the man in control was just laughing away All day In life, there's just one transition All day In life, there's just one decision Life is just one transition Was it something you read Was it something you meant Was it something you said Or was it heaven sent All day x2 All day (you work and you work and you work and) In life, there's just one transition All day (you work and you work and you work and) In life, there's just one decision
The Angel
now is an angel there? Always an angel there Always an angel there One left out When they pass heaven about What about me Sitting here in my purgatory So get out He's dead I'm alive He's spared Always an angel who cares Always an angel there One like me We try so hard Five like you Someone dead again Where's your angel now Where's your angel now Where's your morals now Where's your morals Always an angel there Where's your angel now Always an angel who cares Always an angel there Where's your morals There's always an angel who cares There's always an angel there No more people staring No more fatal dares Like a baby grabbing at Something that isn't there But it is But it is Always an angel there Always an angel who cares Always an angel there Always an angel who cares
Over The Shoulder
Big size, small size Any size, round and round We need, we take Burn it all into the ground Started over and learned to walk We teach you how to talk Please try and understand We're helping all mankind We use them a while then it's over the shoulder We use them a while then it's over the shoulder We are serious Oh, oh serious Dollar here, dollar there Dollars flying everywhere We're only here to please Stop the killing, trust me We'll only be a while Big while, big big smile We use them a while then it's over the shoulder We use them a while then it's over the shoulder We have in our hands Every woman and every man Things are gonna go far Down a really big fast car And what you see is what you get Keep 'em hungry, you bet You need security To keep you from the enemy We use them a while then it's over the shoulder We use them a while then it's over the shoulder
My Possession
Hanging and banging and cussing and bitching And scratching and twitching at my demand Grabbing and poking and bruising and choking I'm sprinkled i'm tinkled i'm losing? my man I found a new way I found a better way I found the only way To cure frustration I don't care what you say About my moral ways Get on your knees and pray Cause you're slaves anyway Coming and going and moving and groaning And hitting that kitten and making him yowl Wailing and flailing and trudging and flogging And punching my doggie and making him howl I found a new way I found a better way I found the only way To cure frustration I don't care what you say About my moral ways Get on your knees and pray Cause you're slaves anyway My possession x3 Mine, all mine Kicking that butt now licking that butt Now kneel on that gut now the red light's on Pushing and shoving that bread in the oven I'm paying them back for what they've done I found a new way I found a better way I found the only way To cure frustration I don't care what you say About my moral ways Get on your knees and pray Cause you're slaves anyway My possession x3 Mine, all mine
Where You At Now
I seen God!
Tell us to talk
Tell us to smile
Tell us a story
Tell us a lie
Tell us to talk
Tell us to smile
Tell us a story
I seen God! (x 2)
Oh!
I seen God! (x 4)
Come on, get outta here! (x 3)
I seen God!
Come on, get outta here (x 4)
Where you at now?
Where you at now? (x 2)
Come on, get outta here
Where you at now?
Come on, get outta here
Where you at now?
Come on, get outta here
I seen God!
(x 4)
Come on, get outta here
Where you at now?
(x 3)
Come on, get outta here (x 2)
The version played on the 1986 tour changed the lyrics to:
I've seen God?
Where you at Now? x3
Tell us to talk
Tell us to live
Tell us to die
Tell us to give
Tell us to fuck
Tell us to shit
Tell us to go
Tell us to live like fucking dogs
Tell us to die like fucking dogs
Go! x4
Where you at Now?
Tell us to talk
Tell us to talk
Tell us to live
Tell us to die
Tell us to kill
Tell us to fuck
Tell us to shit
Tell us to die
Where you at Now?
Go! x3
Go home! x3
Fuck you yankee!
Go home! x3
Fucking yankee!
Go home! x2
And the version performed on the 1988 tour chenged the lyrics to:
Where you at Now?x3
It's hard to walk
It's hard to fly
It's hard to ?
It's hurts to cry
It's hard to give
It's hurts to die
We live
To die x3
Where you at now
? with limitations
We live
To die x3
Where you at Now?
Crash And Burn
Crash and burn!
Isle of Man
Nice place
Clean water
Fresh air
Blue skies
Like pirates
We tried it
Ee took what we deserved
Half million
Years later
We use up
Our reserves
We're crying
What happened
We get what we deserve
We get what we deserve
We get instead the isle of man
The isle of man
I'm walking
Through forests
Of garbage
Waist-high
Can't clean it
I mean it
We get what we deserve
Gray mornings
Gray evenings
It's growing on my nerves
Just gases
You fascists
You get what you deserve
You get what you deserve
You get instead the isle of man
The isle of man
I'm writing
This letter
So no one will forget
Some future
Cave dweller
Will find these notes
An isle of man