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
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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.
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