Don't Prey For Me (1988)
Radical Your Lover
Pleasure Pyre
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Don't Prey For Me (1988) |
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Radical Your Lover |
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Pleasure Pyre |
Lyrics
If you feel the rot setting in
When the pacifying radio
Starts to wear a little thin
You kids in the school
And you office block cools
Need to try a little sin
Cause we all crave some release
From the terminal effects of the nine till five disease
What you want is a stimuli on which to feed
[Bridge]
Adrenaline kicks through the blood and tears
That keeps us young for a thousand years
[Chorus]
Do you wanna riot
Blow your top
You’ll never keep us quiet
I hold my breath but I know it won’t stop
You’re the supersonic youth
Energising humanoids fed on rocket fuel
If your tired of the sideshow
Just wanna hear some truth
Then why not crack the mold
Yeah – break the day time tediums and slip the reins they hold
Join the hop, don’t fight your instincts when they say lose control
[Repeat bridge]
[Repeat chorus]
[Middle 8]
I know it won’t stop
No – I know it won't stop
Yeah yeah – it’s never gonna stop
Oh – it’s never gonna stop
Yeah yeah- never gonna stop
(repeats to end)
Wolves at your door, claw at the
paint
Pressure that’s on cuts against the grain
And when you start screaming don’t coil it there inside
The blunt end of your conscience
Will be sharper than your axe to grind
[Chorus]
You gotta kick
And if they knock you down get right back up and
Kick
Kick for your life
Kick for your love
Just kick
All you needs that little bit of soul
So kick hard baby come on take control
When you’re hounded for an
answer
Then told that you are wrong
You’ll be giving up your liberty if you sing their song
So be the hunter and not the hunted
And fight for your beliefs
Saddle up and smash your way through the tangled web we weave
[Repeat chorus]
[Middle 8]
Oh – all you gotta do is let no-one put you down
Come on tell me now you needs that?
Oh – take a look at yourself and tell me
Do you understand that your life is in your hands
Solo
[Key change chorus]
[Outro]
Kick for your life
Kick for your love
Kick for your life
You gotta kick for your love
I grew up thinking
That life was free
That is the way
It made a mess out of me
Folks all around told me
I was no good
But when your young
You never do what you should
Thought I’d seen it all
Now I’ve finally seen the light
[Chorus]
Big bad world
(I’m livin’ in a)
Big bad world
(I’m livin’ in a)
Big bad world
I’m livin’
Things get harder
Now your fighting for your life
I thought I had such
A beautiful life
Until a man tired to
Skin me alive
He took away, everything I possessed
Now I’m back at the start
That’s the place I know best
Pleasures never out of reach
You gotta get it in your grasp
[Chorus]
If you want to live
New York, in Paris or Rome
Drink bourbon and soda
In Nice or Cologne
If your tired of existing
Tired of it all
Hold on in the crossfire
And fight till you fall
[Chorus]
If you want to live
New York, in Paris or Rome
I’m living and I gotta keep
Living and I gotta get out of this
Big bad world
[Verse 1]
Johnny never cared ‘bout nobody
Cause no-one ever cared bout John
He’s crawled his way this far through life
He’s the original wayward son
He took himself to the wild blue yonder
To see what he could find
Now he’s the king of the dusty jungle
And he’s got peace of mind
[Verse 2]
Don’t need no money in his new world
He’s financially indisposed
He’s spends his life lining rich men's pockets
Making candy for the nose
Tired of watching a TV. tube
Tired of civilised days
So he took his guitar into paradise
Mother natures way..
[Chorus]
Livin it up
Kicking up dust
Making his life his own way
He was
Livin it up
Down in dirt
He’s got enough
Just cutting it rough
Kicking up dust
[Verse 3]
So wild and free in the country
But all John got was rain
And the city looked pretty in the moonlight
And it seemed to call his name
So he brushed the dirt from his blue jeans
Picked himself up off the floor
Thinks he’ll leave the tree’s to the monkeys
He don’t need that anymore
Chorus
Solo
[Middle 8]
Johnny never cared ‘bout nobody
Cause no-one ever cared bout John
He’s crawled his way this far through life
He’s the original wayward son
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Yeah yeah etc.
Chorus
[Outro]
Johnny never cared bout
Nothing at all
[Verse
1]
He’s finally crawling his way back home
He’s finally stopped being a kid –
And he wonders if anyone remembers his name
Cause it’s been such a long time
The
city won’t miss him
It’s too big to care –
He’s left all the laughs and
The good times he shared
And it’s been such a long time
[Bridge
1]
Down in the halls he’s
Stayed just the shame
Although he’s a King he’s
A pawn in this game
[Chorus]
Don’t pray for me
But don’t let me go
I Have lost all my dreams
And now I am cold to the bone
Don’t pray for me
I ain’t gonna fall
Tears prove nothing at all
Nothing so, don’t pray for me
[Verse
2]
His memories are cloudy
He don’t remember all
Seems like a miracle he
Managed at all –
And the people they
Pushed him around
Cause he looked like nothing at all
[Bridge
2]
He stills remembers
The blood stained streets
When as a young kid
He cried in defeat
[Chorus]
[Middle
8]
He says he’s got a lot to be thankful for
In the end he’s a number and nothing more
Caught in a world always turning the screw
There’s nothing here left for you
[Verse
3]
He’s finally crawling his way back home
He’s finally stopped being a kid –
And he wonders if anyone remembers his name
Cause it’s been such a long time
[Bridge
2]
[Chorus]
to end
[Verse 1]
We can sing our lilting ballads
We can neutralise the things
Causing pain and indifference
And all world suffering
But it’s another kind of story
When the hammer starts to swing
And we always lose those battles
I hope to God someday we’ll win
[Verse 2]
It’s a lonely kind of process
Sitting round in failures chains
But we learn a lot more lesson
From our failures then from our gains
But we aren’t weak, I know we’re tough
In our hearts there’s fire burning
And I know beneath the camouflage
It’s happiness we’re yearning
[Bridge 1]
If there’s a God looking down up this crazy world
He’s probably by now stopped really caring
[Chorus]
Oh – people be strong
Don’t give up the fight now if you’re able
Oh – although we try
You can’t mend the broken wings of an angel
[Verse 3]
While killers finely craft their plans
Undercover of our laws
So it takes the streets to run with blood
To even out the scores
What can be done we never do
Cause the failures gonna glow
And they cover up the truth for us
Cause it’s not the publics right to know
[Bridge 2]
If there’s a God looking down up this crazy world
He’s probably by now stopped really caring
He’s watched the evil stir those who would terrorise our minds
Where do they learn to take their poison
Chorus
Solo
[Bridge 3]
He’s watched the evil stir those who would terrorise our minds
Where do they learn to take their poison
[Verse 1]
We don’t live forever but man we survive
This porno disease keeps our blood level high
We’d spit it out, but boy it tastes so good
Just like it should (Like it should)
Down on your heads
This kingdom will fall
The weight of depression crushing us all
[Chorus]
Oh – bitter and twisted
Oh – bitter and twisted
[Verse 2]
Every new potions the same toxic trash
He backstabbing dealers live well on your cash
But this is what the papers like to see
The decaying rock machine (watch it decay)
Down on your heads
This kingdom will fall
The weight of depression crushing us all
Chorus
Bitter and down on your luck
You’re feeling the strain
Fashions the name of the game
Bitter and twisted
Solo
[Verse 3]
When vultures smell money they gather like flies
Business as usual means our sweet demise
We’re drowning ourselves in the company we keep
Yeah – we did our graves real deep
[Verse]
Always been a lonely boy
Since the day that he was born
Left home with his eyes wide open
And flames burning in his heart
His mom never slept alone
She gets a new man everyday
Got tried of the same old lies
It’s like a poison when the hurt stagnates
[Bridge]
But we build out hearts out of broken glass
Strip back the flesh and expose
[Chorus]
You give me promises
Heep big promises knocking on my door
You give me promises
Bad vide promises hit me no more
[Verse]
She loves him like a king
Mary’s got a real big heart
He says ‘Baby I’ll give you everything’
She don’t feel it when the rotting starts
She can’t believe the truth
Watch her plead her pride away
Caught up in this game called life
She’ll be suspicious till her dying day
Bridge then Chorus
[Middle 8]
We build our hearts out of broken glass
Strip back the flesh and expose
But you can’t change a thing no matter who you are
Are we ever, ever, ever, ever gonna learn
Chorus til end
Up late, never wait, tired of
livin anyway
Move slow, don’t you know, everything has gotta go
Every face in the place, taking bribes on my case
Tryin’ to make me red with guiltless blood
Sick of the city, sure ain’t pretty
All I get’s abuse and head full of crime
Vice keeps em working, working til their choking
But I ain’t got no time
[Chorus]
When I get out of here
I’m gonna leave all that stuff
When I get out of here – woah woah woah
Why get out of here? – leave it behind
When I get out of here
Misterman, masterplan, behaving
like he’s in clan
He’s never met a Negro but he don’t like his style
Brains on vacation, just money dictation
Needs a location to rest a while
Feel like a river, blue like the ocean
Gonna rise like a rocket in the astral sky
No need for a sermon, screaming blue murder
So don’t waste my time
Chorus
Solo
Unionise, quantise, don’t tell
me I’m not worldly wise
Quit it big brother, stop picking on me
Hypnotise finalise, keep on telling white lies
Life is full of walls and they’re closing in on me
Air head, she said, take me to your loving bed
I got the change so I took her all the way
Smoke stack, heart attack, back seat of a Cadillac
She’s got the pictures and she’s gonna make me pay
Feel like a river, blue like the
ocean
Gonna rise like a rocket in the astral sky
No need for a sermon, screaming blue murder
I’m running out of steam so let me fly
Chorus
[Verse 1]
They filled his head with modern rules
They were rules he never learned
To a kid from the streets the price of fame
Meant you got your fingers burned
He had a girl that loved too hard
Yeah – thought he had it all
He wrapped her up in passionate arms
But he never felt the hammer fall
No he never felt it fall
[Bridge 1]
The sun seemed to shine then
But now it’s grey
He’ll cry when the world comes down yeah
But this time he ain’t taking the blame
[Verse 2]
Four o’clock in the morning
World hears a cry
A shot rang out to end the pain
Of living on the edge of a knife
[Bridge 2]
His pride and his passion
Will never live again
Just one in a sea of fools
In a world of impossible dreams
[Chorus]
Stemming the flow, putting up his hands
Getting out of this perfect land
Tired of fighting, tired of tears
No solution
Burning up he’s done his last
Holding on but he’s falling fast
Made his case, but the worlds’ the law
No solution
No solution
No solution
Solo
Chorus
She walks like a millionaire
The black in her eyes
Picks out the red in her hair
She talks like she’s tired of it all
But in an hour or two
She’ll be having a ball
Hot legs
Your love potion
Much more than just a crazy notion
If you want more
Try her hot water
She’ll be leading you on
Like a lamb to the slaughter
[Chorus]
She’s a little angel
Don’t you know that your mine
Just a little angel
Just a little angel
She’s making movies
Dancing like a queen
She lives like a star
But they don’t know where she’s been
Like a freight train
Ride into the night
She’ll drive the fast lane
If the feelings right
And if you want more
Try her hot water
She’ll be leading you on
Like a lamb to the slaughter
[Repeat chorus]
[Breakdown]
[Key-change chorus]
[Chorus to end]