TensionFrail hinges pivot on a cases door commemorative souvenirs from places containers change with each occasion Cellophane encased displaying paper certificate credit years of service a tool of central enterprises The early hope for permanence the words the rings consistency and social security the miracles high tragedy A thought mistaken for a memory clear the dust from smiles in boxes cross a patterned floor recall the voices Local posts they list your friends in order of disappearance lawn scattered tins feed birds the portion baked for absent guests Mass edition icon god sent comfort is your salvation but who grants absolution for sins that never were committed Tension makes a tangle of each thought becomes inconvenience sound never penetrate as servile edges break and faint Dress lenghts assassinations fractured family ties christenings 10 000 Maniacs Index Planned ObsolescenceScience is truth for life watch religion fall obsolete science will be truth for life technology as nature science truth for life in fortran tongue the answer With wealth and prominence man so near perfection possession it's an absence of interim secure no demurrer defense against divine defense against his true image human conflict number five discovery dissolved all illusion mystery destroyed with conclusion and illusion never restored Any modern man can see that religion is obsolete Piety obsolete ritual obsolete martyrdom obsolete prophetic vision obsolete mysticism obsolete commitment obsolete sacrament obsolete revelation obsolete 10 000 Maniacs Index OrangeLineage closed dissolved in its birth tragedy prelude a balance is a synergy of reason malicious hope as techno atrocities lapse their effects associate these ends their clarity demands your revenge please compensate not deny Jungle revenge infanticide crosses very thin walls latent casualties arrive from fatal initiation no longer recessive genetic aliens abandoned plain deceit in the mirage of a just one time cause we'd all changed the clocks No ladies auxiliary to kiss their blistered cheeks gone 10 000 Maniacs Index Groove DubImitate that soured old song there is no individuality only guises shades of nonconformity there is no individuality selling vantage points low rate there is no individuality questions ancient no words claimed perform motions borrowed thoughts following ima tima ima tima intima dation respected head-he-go-round-men gesture display customer limits appeal media dictates the latest role totalitarian motions borrowed selling vantage points low rate for you media begged suffered numbers pain 10 000 Maniacs Index Anthem For Doomed YouthFor whom the bells toll when sentenced to die the stuttering rifles will stifle the cry the monstrous anger the fear's rapid rattle a desert inferno kids dying like cattle Don't tell me we're not prepared I've seen today's marine he's eighteen and he's eager he can be quite mean No mock'ries for them no prayers or bells the demented choirs the wailing of shells the boys holding candles on untraveled roads the fear spreads like fire as shrapnel explodes I think it's wrong to conscript our youth against their will when plenty of our citizenry really like to kill What sign posts will lead to armageddon's fires what bugles will call them from crowded grey shires the women sit quiet with death on their minds a slow dusk descending the drawing of blinds Make the hunters all line up it's their idea of fun and let those be forgiven who never owned a gun was it him or me or the wailing of the dead the laughing soldiers cast their lots and you can cut the dread 10 000 Maniacs Index |
