Carcass Album

The threads of global fabric are untied
The role of the western free world is in decline
Still free to consume, free to breathe
Free to exist, free to dream, your life of dreams

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
One day maybe, keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...

Consumer or consumed, your life is cheap
Economic salvation in sweatshops returned from the east
Despair the only quality of strife
A reason for existence if you can afford the price,
If your price is right

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
One day maybe, keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
One day maybe, keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
One day maybe, keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
One day maybe, keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
One day maybe, keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...

Keep on rotting, keep on hoping, keep on dreaming
Keep on rotting, keep on hoping
Whilst in the real world you...
...Rot!!!!!

Your kingdom is of emptiness
Invisible empire of illusion
There's no majesty in your empty words
Your ideology - self delusion
Revisionism is the future
So let's hail the same old dawn
Kneel before the same old order
You're no kings - only pawns

You're waiting for tomorrow, well tomorrow never comes
Ha, you're waiting for your new dawn, so sad to say there isn't one
Because, tomorrow belongs to nobody
Tomorrow - belongs to nobody

You're waiting for tomorrow, well tomorrow never comes
Ha, you're waiting for your new dawn, so sad to say there isn't one
You fools tomorrow belongs to nobody
Tomorrow - belongs to nobody

3. Black Star

(Walker/Regadas)

BLACK STAR, JEWEL OF THE NIGHT,
BLACK STAR, BURNING BRIGHT,
MAGNIFICENT SUN, A BEACON BURNING,
FIVE POINTED COAL, A GUIDE ETERNAL,
BLACK STAR, FIVE POINTED COAL,
BLACK STAR, THE COSMIC SOUL,
SHINING OPAQUE, CELESTIAL FURNACE,
GLITTERING DARK, A SUN IN MOURNING,

BLACK STAR, WHERE LIGHT NEVER SHINES,
BLACK STAR WON'T YOU BE MY GUIDE?
A DEAD SUN FOR WHERE THE LIGHT NEVER SHINES,

SHINE ON...
TWINKLE, TWINKLE BLACK STAR,
SHINE ON...

BLACK STAR, DARKEN THE SKIES,
FOREVER BURN, NEVER TO DIE,
AN EBONY FLAME, A SUN INFERNAL,
NEMESIS OF THE NIGHT, MY OWN DARK ANGEL,
BLACK STAR, JEWEL OF THE NIGHT,
BLACK STAR, SO CRUEL, SO BRIGHT,
A GLORIOUS SUN, WITH WARMTH SO HEALING,
GLITTERING DARK, A SUN IN MOURNING,

BLACK STAR, WHERE LIGHT NEVER SHINES,
BLACK STAR WON'T YOU BE MY GUIDE?
A DEAD SUN FOR WHERE THE LIGHT NEVER SHINES,

SHINE ON...
TWINKLE, TWINKLE BLACK STAR,
SHINE ON... BLACK STAR

4. Cross My Heart

(Walker/Steer)

Yeah, cross my heart and hope to die,
It will only end in tears, eye for an eye,
For an eye,
If beauty is only skin deep,
Then thankfully I am blind,
Cross my heart and hope to die,

Cross my heart, come cross the line,
Won't you be mine, my bloody valentine?
Put me on a pedestal, I'll put you on a slab.
Cross my heart and hope to die,
Come, let's cross the line,
There's a fine line, between love and hate,
Let's tear it apart.

Cross my heart, and hope to die,
Cross my heart, come let's cross the line.

Time is no great healer, quickly the senses numb,
Come cross my heart, void and null,
Love is a weakness, lust conquers all,
Cross my heart and hope to die,
Where do we draw the line?

There's a fine line, between love and hate,
Let's tear it in two.

Cross my heart, and hope to die,
Cross my heart, come let's cross the line.

Let's tear it apart.

Raised in a nursery of crumbling brick
Rusted iron, cracked stone and steel
Nurtured in a barren concrete crib
In a playground of grey, your fate is sealed
Against a back drop of drab, cold corrosion
We learn to dance, love, sing and play
Razor wire the strung umbilical cord
In an unsterile womb of urban decay

Let me take you down
As I'm going too

Play hard - like child's play
Playing rough - after all it's only a game

(lead)

Now, redevelopment lies in ruins
As gutted slums are sown
Enveloping, smothering squalor
This dereliction grows
Outside it is now cold and dark
Only desolation, darkness and gloom
Not a far cry from a tortured cat
Your cities will become your tombs

Let me take you down
As I'm going too

Play hard - like child's play
Playing rough - after all it's only...

Play hard - like child's play
Playing rough - after all it's only a game

Don't claim to be a prophet
Don't claim to read the stars
But I can see a future
Mapped out in scars
Look to the skies
Keep praying to your gods
Your only salvation
Will come in the shape of the bomb

No clockwork orange
The doom watch ticks
There's no second coming
Only final conflict
Blind pessimism?
Only time will tell
The cold hard reality
Is that this world had gone to hell

And this is where I belong
In my room one zero one
As I sit here all alone
In my own private year zero

These numbers branded
Embedded in the mind
How can your herald a future
When it's already arrived?
Keep looking to the skies
Keep waiting for your lord
You fools there's no second coming
To redeem you all

And this is where I belong
In my room one zero one
As I sit here all alone
In my own private year zero

Don't claim to be a prophet
Don't claim to sight the stars
But I can read the future
In anguished mental scars
I have no faith
In anything that you hold dear
The future is ours
Only in sweat and tears
And this is where I belong
In my room one zero one
As I sit here all alone
In my own private year zero

And this is where I belong
In my room one zero one
As I sit here all alone
In my own private year zero

Don't want your number
Don't want your name
Don't want your colour...
Don't want your politics
Don't want your cause
Don't believe what you believe
Don't want to wear your emblem
Don't want your cult or sect
Don't want your faith
Don't want your respect
Don't want your love
Don't want your praise
Don't want your stupid fashion
Don't want your phase

Polarized - tell me what colours do you wear?
Your beliefs, polarized
I just don't care for what you care

I just don't care for what you care

Polarized - tell me what colours do you wear?
Your beliefs, polarized
I just don't care for what you care

Don't want your number
Don't want your name
Don't want your colour...
Don't want your politics
Don't want your cause
Don't believe what you believe
Don't want to wear your emblem
Don't want your cult or sect
Don't want your faith
Don't want your respect
Don't want your love
Don't want your praise
Don't want your stupid fashion
Don't want your phase

Polarized - tell me what colours do you wear?
Your beliefs, polarized
I just don't care for what you care

Polarized - tell me what colours do you wear?
Your beliefs, polarized
I just don't care

Lost forever a whole generation of pathetic lost souls
With no meaning of depth they're already dead, before it gets old
Anonymous, blank no individuality, uniformed
A wholesale banket identity, from the day that they're born
Another generation to mourn

What choice for a new generation?
Another generation under sedation

Flocking like sheep the instinctual herd, as fashion dictates
Primitively seduced commonly reduced, resigned to their fate
Another useless faceless degeneration like the one which precedes
Acknowledging a bleak existence, to be spent on it's knees
The pattern it seeds

What choice for a new generation?
Another generation under sedation


Generation hexed
Just another useless generation
...Hexed

Trapped together another wasted generation is sold
With no meaning, of depth they're there to be bled
Never breaking the mould
Anonymous, blank no individuality, misinformed
A wholesale blinkered non-entity, on it's knees born
Another generation to scorn

What choice for a new generation?
Just another generation under sedation

Self suppressed
Generation vexed
Self oppressed
Just another generation hexed

What choice for a new generation?
A generation vexed
Still no choice for a new generation
Just another generation under sedation

Generation hexed
Just another useless generation
Generation hexed
Just another wasted generation
...hexed

Firmhand, iron fist, an ardent dexterous weeding process
Overlord with a strong grip, viral containment, a harvesting grid

Firmhand - unnatural selection is applied
Firmhand - the final solution, eugenocide

Hate is the law, love under will
Hate is their law, love under will

Transfusing, contagion breeds
Multi-cultured epidemic is released
Held firm, crushing grasp
A painstaking, callous, arduous task

Firmhand - indiscriminate selection is applied
Firmhand - the final solution, eugenocide

Hate is the law, love under will
Hate is their law, love under will
With slight of their firmhand
And deviancy is cleansed

Firmhand - unnatural selection is applied
Firmhand - the final solution, eugenocide

Hate is the law, love under will
Hate is their law, love under will

With slight of their firmhand
With the might of their firmhand
With slight of their firmhand
And deviancy is cleansed

Hands in another's pocket
The bed they make
Is not the one in which they lie
The same old faces
The same old establishment
The same old lies
Cross your 'x'
It's your only voice
Do as you're told
Stay in line
Don't rock the boat
And buy what you're sold

Believe the lie
The line that you toe
Doing fine
If you just do as you're told

No dissident voices
The faces merge
Are one, absolute
A comfortable, privileged
White over belly
Revolution
No threat, no change
No gain, just pain
The same old scheme
No hope, no choice
No future, no voice
This is no pipe dream
All is not what it seems

Believe the lie
The line that you toe
Doing fine
If you just do as you're told
Believe the lie
The line that you toe
Doing fine
If you just do as you're told

Is this rock'n'roll
Or a form of state control?

Is this really rock'n'roll?
Or a form of state control?

Believe the lie
The lie that you're told
Doing fine
Just do as you're told

Believe the lie
The lie that you're told
Doing fine
Just do as you're told

Believe the lie
The lie that you're told
Doing fine
Just do as you're told

Is this rock'n'roll
Or a form of state control?

You should never take too literally what you read
Misinformation, distortion, make belief
Fabrications, half truths implied
Misquotations, out of context and lies

"I promise to tell the truth
The whole truth and nothing but..."

Lies - you believe them all
Lies - you swallow them whole
Lies, lies, half truths misinformation and...
Lies - you believe them all
Lies - you swallow them whole
Lies, lies, half truths misinformation and...
...lies

Fact and fantasy united as one
Real power stems from the barrel of a pen
Living memory can easily be erased
The pen is mightier than the sword
Yet with no blade

"I promise to tell the truth
The whole truth and nothing but..."

Lies - you believe them all
Lies - you swallow them whole
Lies, lies, half truths misinformation and...
Lies - you believe them all
Lies - you swallow them whole
Lies, lies, half truths misinformation and...

(Walker)

SOME PEOPLE AREN'T CUT OUT TO BE SAINTS,
AND SINCE I WAS BORN IN ORIGINAL SIN,
HEDONISM HAS A CERTAIN ATTRACTION,
I THINK I'LL CUT THE CRAP, CUT OUT THE MIDDLE MAN,

AND GO TO HELL,
I'VE SOLD MY SOUL, SO WHEN MY BODY GOES COLD,
I'LL GO STRAIGHT TO HELL,
GO TO HELL,
WON'T YOU BE TOLD?
I'VE SOLD MY SOUL,
GO STRAIGHT TO HELL

YOUR PARADISE DOESN'T SOUND TOO FETCHING,
IT'S NOT ONLY YOUR SOULS WHICH MUST BE LOST,
"HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE",
YEAH, TOO RIGHT, MY HELL IS YOU,

THE SINS OF THE FLESH SOUND SO APPEALING,
SO LET ME WALLOW IN MY GUILT,
YOUR HELL WILL BE MY HEAVEN,
SO LET'S TURN UP THE HEAT, LET ETERNITY BEGIN,

AND GO TO HELL,
I'VE SOLD MY SOUL, SO WHEN MY BODY GOES COLD,
I'LL GO STRAIGHT TO HELL,
C'MON,
LET'S GO TO HELL,
WON'T YOU BE TOLD?
I'VE SOLD MY SOUL,
GO STRAIGHT TO HELL,

LET'S BURN IN THE FLAMES, YEAH!!!!