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What About Us?


ARTIST
Ministry


RELEASED ON

  • What About Us? (Ministry)
  • Greatest Fits (Ministry)


    SONG VERSIONS

  • What About Us? [5:52]
  • What About Us? (Edit) [4:05]


    NOTES
    info, etc.


    RECORDING INFORMATION

  • produced by: Hypo Luxa & Hermes Pan
  • engineered by:
  • recorded at: Chicago Trax


  • ALTERNATE/WORKING TITLE(S)
    Unknown.


    MUSIC BY
    Ministry


    LYRICS BY
    Al Jourgensen (& Ty Coon?)


    PERFORMERS

  • Al Jourgensen (lead vocals, lead guitar, electronics)
  • Deborah "Ty" Coon (additional vocals)
  • Paul Barker (bass, electronics)
  • Louis Svitek (guitar, electronics)
  • Max Brody (drums)


    LYRICS

    Just like another speck of dust that's on the highway of life
    He screams at anyone who'll listen that the end is in sight
    So then he circles the wagons, or he just circles then quits
    Cause the highway could become the final battling pit
    So when the company wants, another problem resolved
    Or if the company wants a choice of nothing at all
    Point your thumb out to the highway through the heat and the dust
    And raise your finger in the middle 'til you shout
     
    "What about us?!"
     
    Just like another last call, it means nothing at all
    You either kiss a lot of ass, or tear the clock off the wall
    Another warning ignored, another sign of the times
    They say the sky is gonna fall, so why not drink 'til your blind
    So when the company wants another company man
    Or when the company wants another 1,000 year plan
    You'll let your boot go up the road, you cannot possibly trust
    'Til the screaming hits the ceiling and you ask
     
    "What about us?!"
     
    Don't follow my path to extinction
    If I had a mind, I'd leave it alone
    We speak of liberation, transcendental meditation
    Like a journey to the inside of carnal fiction
    Release yourself where the predator prays
    Rewind your mind, freeze your world apart!
    Wage war on the eye which cannot see
    Destroy the temple of emptiness
    And what about them in the wake of damnation?
    And what about us? Do we come from God?!
     
    Kust like the old soft shoe or the old song and dance
    The only check that's in the mail is probably already cashed
    Are you a victim of chance? Is this the way to succeed?
    Or just a crack in the wall of what the people believe
    So when the company wants the final weapon online
    When the company wants to repossess your mind
    You gotta wonder if the fear that we loathe or trust
    Would ever waste a precious second trying to answer
     
    "What about us?!"
     
    (Do we come from God?!)
    What about them?!
    

    - Transcribed by Pierre Knutson. Afra Ahmad. Bryce Prewitt. Rob Neilson. Max. Pete. grmpysmrf.