Ministry Album

well I live with snakes and lizards
and other things that go bump in the night
cos to me everyday is halloween
I have given up hiding and started to fight
I have started to fight

well any time, any place, anywhere that I go
all the people seem to stop and stare
they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween?
you look so absurd, you look so obscene!'

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

well I let their teeny minds think
that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink
and I dress this way just to keep them at bay
cos halloween is everyday
it's everyday

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should I take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world

o, why can't I live a life for me?
why should i take the abuse that's served?
why can't they see they're just like me
I'm not the one that's so absurd

why hide it?
why fight it?
hurt feelings
best to stop feeling hurt
from denials, reprisals
it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world

[No lyrics]

well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun
and i keep on working till the work is all done
but a voice in my head keeps ticking away
as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day
well he works hard
and he lives hard
and he breaks his back without nothing to gain
while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand
is that what it takes to make you understand?
that it's something you read, not something you meant
to be slaving away without a shred of integrity
he worked hard
and he lived hard
and he broke his back without nothing to say
while the man in control was just laughing away

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

was it something you read?
was it something you meant?
was it something you said?
or was it heaven sent?

all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun
and i keep on working till the work is all done
but a voice in my head keeps ticking away
as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day
well he works hard
and he lives hard
and he breaks his back without nothing to gain
while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision
well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand
is that what it takes to make you understand?
that it's something you read, not something you meant
to be slaving away without a shred of integrity
he worked hard
and he lived hard
and he broke his back without nothing to say
while the man in control was just laughing away
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision
was it something you read?
was it something you meant?
was it something you said?
or was it heaven sent?
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one transition
all day (you work and you work and you work and)
in life, there's just one decision

love love is like an open hand stings a little when it lands hold me closer
hold me tighter hold me so damn close that my heart's on fire it's a
fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world is walking round in
theirs i said love love is like a razor blade double edge and double pain
hold me closer hold me tighter when i rip your flesh and the pain is fresh
it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world doesn't seem to
care i said love love is like a butcher knife double sharp for single lives
hold me closer hold me tighter as the lights go out and we start to shout
it's a fantasy it's a nightmare with a big black bruise and a handful of
hair i said love

love love is like an open hand stings a little when it lands hold me closer
hold me tighter hold me so damn close that my heart's on fire it's a
fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world is walking round in
theirs i said love love is like a razor blade double edge and double pain
hold me closer hold me tighter when i rip your flesh and the pain is fresh
it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world doesn't seem to
care i said love love is like a butcher knife double sharp for single lives
hold me closer hold me tighter as the lights go out and we start to shout
it's a fantasy it's a nightmare with a big black bruise and a handful of
hair i said love

[No lyrics]

I know someone who thinks he's right
He can't stand it, he wants me to fight
Bible in one hand, ready to strike
Burning those records by candlelight

He's angry
Out of his head
Stop this music before we're all dead
Full of rage
Out of his mind
Our youth culture is on the decline

Sex and drugs are taking their toll
Leading us closer to losing control
Well you know and I know that ain't right
Some of these people are really uptight

I know someone who thinks I'm wrong
Telling me I can't sing my song
Singing and singing 'til the break of dawn
You tell me if I'm doing this wrong

Give up, give up....

Here we go another civil rights song

Got it all wrong, doesn't do nothing
Sing, sing, singing until my face is blue
But what do you do?
Don't do nothing

Uh oh, take a step, move
in the right direction
Uh oh, take a look, make a move
for civilization

Here we go in a brand new year
What do I hear, but the same street talking
Cuz black and whitey are having a fight
Over who is right, and the time is near for

Here we go again talking 'bout race
It's the same newspaper with the same old space
Standing for something that you don't really know
If we don't work it out, we're all gonna go

One more time, so hear me through
Talking 'bout me, we're talking 'bout you
So, one more time just to get it right
You better get moving, for we start tonight

First last night we're riding home
With friends in a big blue car
For this man fed us rubbish
As if it were caviar

We told him, "Sir, please go away!
We're innocent of crimes!"
He hit me with his black nightstick
And all I heard were cries

I'm falling

I asked her for a date one night
She thought it'd be a laugh
I'd take her to a restaurant
And then up to her pad

I waited at my house that night
For her phone call to come
She'd gone off with a ruffian
And he came by with a gun

I'm falling
I'm falling
Yes I'm falling

First last night we're riding home
With friends in a big blue car
For this man fed us rubbish
As if it were caviar

We told him, "Sir, please go away!
We're innocent of crimes!"
He hit me with his black nightstick
And all I heard were cries

I'm falling

I asked her for a date one night
She thought it'd be a laugh
I'd take her to a restaurant
And then up to her pad

I waited at my house that night
For her phone call to come
She'd gone off with a ruffian
And he came by with a gun

I'm falling
I'm falling
Yes I'm falling

He left his house; he should have stayed
He went to work so he'd get paid
So he'd afford his brand new maid
Other things that make life great


He hopped a bus and then a train
Few more stops he'd have it made
But something happened on this day
That put this man into his grave

The train broke down he took a cab
He told the man to make it fast
They ran into a concrete slab
Then cries and screams [?]

He left the cab, walked down the street
There a person he did meet
Who thought his gun was pretty neat
And wanted to see someone bleed

Stumbling on for two more blocks
His body was in total shock
Punch in time was eight o'clock
He's hours late, so he'd be docked

Twenty feet from where he worked
He fell upon some teenage jerks
They took his cash then went berzerk
And killed the poor old office clerk

He should have stayed home x 15