BLACK COMEDY LYRICS

1. The Emergence (Intro)

[Instrumental]

2. Favourite Hateobject

Left to make it all so easy
Cheating yourself of dignity
The former pillars of your life scorn
Laid the blame upon us excessively
Obsessed with external factors
Manipulation to control
From behind the mask you sought to undermine our task
So you could get out whole

[Chorus:]
You cannot see it for yourself
Someone is trying to take it away
Another time, another place
To seek all your pain
Solution is hate

Chose to burn all the bridges
To mark your anger and detest
But all the time you knew what you were
Backstabbing us at the best
Betraying everyone of us
But even worse you betrayed yourself
From now and for ever more
You’ve lost those who were once your real friends

[Chorus:]
You cannot see it for yourself
(Could never rid you illusions)
Someone is trying to take it away
Another time, another place
(We’ve come to the conclusion)
To seek all your pain
Solution is hate

[Bridge:]

Oh,
Yeah

Make amends with all the shit in the wake of you?
Don’t try – There is no gain… fucker!

Memories, we choose to sever line clear
You deal with your demise

[Chorus:]
You cannot see it for yourself
Someone is trying to take it away
Another time, another place
To seek all your pain
Solution is hate

3. War Incognito

Machines produce the maximum
Increase spending to the unimaginable
To sustain weapons industry convince public of pre-emptive strategy
War tech lobbyist get there way, politicians aren’t too hard to sway
Military industrial complex – first war to be won is on the stage budget

All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry

In heights or lows – we’ll sell to friend or foe
Distinct affair – corrupt elites will get their share
And you shall know us by the trail of war
One superpower accumulating more and more
And if other countries dare choose to protest
They’ll facing the might of our trade sanctions next

All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry

Recall the day you pledged to serve the cause
Ethics, schmethics… this is the way of power politics
Politicians will always come and go
Make sure to reap the benefits

A war unjust, at least the threat is reduced to dust
No matter the cost, we showed the world not to mess with us
Reasons washed away, yet we still cash in on the pay
All this worth the price, diplomacy neutralized
Propagate that we must keep on fighting for freedom
Who says democracy is made by the tip of the gun?

All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry, all for the industry
All for the industry

Recall the day you pledged to serve the cause
Ethics, schmethics… this is the way of power politics
Politicians will always come and go
Make sure to reap the benefits

War incognito, war incognito

Ideal war
Ideal stance
Wave the flag, oil tainted
Blood soaked soil in foreign lands
God bless the fortune of this land…

4. Sum Of All Shit

Well it never ceases to amaze
Exalt the splendors of the music industry
Let entertainment value come to the fore
Sit down and get mind-fucked by the shit on MTV

And here we lie (here we lie), in a state of perpetual calm
Eyes wide shut (eyes wide shut), as addicts we keep suckling on
Take in whole the full range of promiscuity
Force fed notions of fervent superficiality
Control is the key (is the key), forever hail the youth of apathy

Minds cut short of dealing with complexities
Meaningless shows designed to induce complacency
So sell! So sell!

[Chorus:]
Oh, we let ourselves play as fools
Our brains turned into dumping sites
Tell us how we must conform in order to feel a belonging white
I feel this burning desire to see this industry cleansed with fire
To be rebuilt with new ambitions and rid of its pitiful inclinations

Rectify (rectify)? Cannot reverse the process now
So effectively (effectively), our eyes have been blinded by snow
Wannabes, pimps, whores sell themselves incessantly
What ever happened to artistic integrity?

Standard recipe of success...
Just add some bling-bling, glam and sex
So-called artists lined-up to be the next big superstar
Just need to label their antics as a newfound art form
Enjoy! Enjoy!

[Chorus:]
Oh, we let ourselves play as fools
Our brains turned into dumping sites
Tell us how we must conform in order to feel a belonging white
I feel this burning desire to see this industry cleansed with fire
To be rebuilt with new ambitions and rid of its pitiful inclinations

Sell out?
Appeal to the most basic conceptions of our imagination
Sell out?
Fuck intellectual audacity if it doesn't make a buck

So, seamless and effortless the pipers lead on the fools
No need to contest the fact, the companies supply the tools
Yes, MTV shall be the proponent of our newborn reality
Add it up and try to make sense
The sum of all shit, shit, shit, shit!

[Chorus:]
Oh, we let ourselves play as fools
Our brains turned into dumping sites
Tell us how we must conform in order to feel a belonging white
I feel this burning desire to see this industry cleansed with fire
To be rebuilt with new ambitions and rid of its pitiful inclinations

Sell out?
Appeal to the most basic conceptions of our imagination
Sell out?
Fuck intellectual audaciousness as the new pretentiousness
Rid of its pitiful inclinations

5. Prime Specimen

Let’s set aside for a moment
The idealogical connotations of the debate
And take a minute to reflect and acknowledge
Our true nature seems no different than amoebae
And I contemplate, ambivalently, over humanity’s behaviour
The strides and turns throughout our fraught history
And how we tend to out – complete the very things we depend upon

[Chorus:]
Swept away – even as our surroundings succumb we cannot find a way out
Procreate – a higher purpose is a figment of our imagination

Sex – the very things that all sentient life-forms share
The basic premise for species’ continuation
Funny how it makes us cast aside our attributes of rational thinking
Added irony, our basic urge to disseminate our genes
Turns out to be our most destructive weapon
The quintessential program which we are all equipped is a double edged sword

[Chorus:]
Swept away – even as our surroundings succumb we cannot find a way out
Procreate – a higher purpose is a figment of our imagination [x2]

Our evolution is interdependency by design
Or is it disparity with impunity?

Swept away…

[Chorus:]
Swept away – even as our surroundings succumb we cannot find a way out
Procreate – a higher purpose is a figment of our imagination

And we assume nothing, nothing of this world
Still believe there’s an intelligent force behind our existence?

6. Civil Paranoia

We are so paranoid, we’ve become the victims of our own fear
Rationality is subordinate, when tuned in to the “evils” out there
Oh, do you react to what they send?
TV depicts society like a war zone – ready to engulf us!

Feeding us an unscrupulous set of lies
Information corresponds to socially accepted stereotypes
Generalizations, preconceptions, news that lacks depth
We consume others tragedies to feel better about ourselves
Omnipresent political correctness – objectivity dead
Simplified news-reports persuade the dimmest of heads

[Chorus:]
So when freedom is at stake – our docility makes sure that we don’t care
Just as long as we get what we crave!
Truth beyond sensation – subscribe to the pretense?
The will to entertain exceeds what really counts…

Swayed public opinion and directed sympathies
Ignorance flourishing due to critical inadequacy
TV the instrument that keeps us in check
Our attentions diverted by the government

Oh, we’re slaves to the fucking trends!
Curiously poised by the menace of criminals and bin Ladens
This paranoia is shifting society
Becoming a nation of hyper-patriotic vigilantes

What cuts me up – I swallow the hollow lies they feed me
Enclosed by invisible fiends, media nurtures the fears inside me
Bored?
At least it keeps me glued to the tube
In anticipation of the next ferocious crime –
Comfortably pacified within they walls of my home

Tap into the horrors of the outside world
Information suited for mass digestion
Everyone viewing the same channels
Leave out what demands personal reflection

[Chorus:]
So when freedom is at stake – our docility makes sure that we don’t care
Just as long as we get what we crave!
Truth beyond sensation – subscribe to the pretense?
The will to entertain exceeds what really counts…

Woh, woh.

7. At One With Decadence

Well, I know this bitch; she thinks she’s a star now
Everybody she knows tells her that she’s the best
So pretty, cute, fragile – she loves to be loved
But stardom has a price and she knows…

In order to market herself she’s left all that she was
An empty shell of success
She bares the strain that she must always perform
Sell to sell isn’t too far from whoredom

Things will always coast more than they should
And it never matter how much money you possessed
The questions is how much you are willing to concede
Capital provides the cheap thrills that we seek

So let’s dance!
Around the gold calf [3x]
So!

I’ve got this friend who treats his women like a commodity
Only satisfied giving a certain amount of pain
His shattered ego tells him to put true love aside
Primal urges never to short to be denied

This one girl broke his heart a long time ego
Regrettably to him they are all now the same
Instead he confides in synthetic dreams
Too bad he never found what could keep him sane

Abundance is mundane – consume that makes me ill
Our spoiled laughter haunts those in need
Nothing for something, fruits that we steal
Blessed are the whores that serve all our needs

If we had a million dollars we’d still use it on shit!

Is this real?
It must be – our money tells us so!
Applied materialism is the easiest way to go
Take the big cake – orgy of consumption
What do we care in this world of destitution?

We are all wrapped up in our selfish selves
Prisoners of our personal vanity
We feed on perfect images we know are fake
They say reflections never lie

So let’s dance!
Around the gold calf [3x]
So!

Abundance is mundane – consume that makes me ill
Our spoiled laughter haunts those in need
Nothing for something, fruits that we steal
Blessed are the whores that serve all our needs

We know – you know [7x]
Its decadence!
Shit!

8. Lord Of Locust

We are all!

With your soul in my hand – a grip that compels, consumes the hearts
Drive on, lead on, or sink as you sell your right to live on
Pure market autonomy, the invisible hand distributes the shares just
Free the forces of greed and bring all those untouched to the light

[Chorus:]
No, uninhibited speculation – incentive to flow
No, state subordinate to the paramount of individualism
No, dollar signs in their eyes; can’t you see how they glow?
No, penetration for acquisition – disintegrate capital account control!

That’s right! An ideology that seems all too right
Survival of the fittest – a rat-race put in to perfect system

Institutionalized cynicism – clear cut rationale, volatility ensures a victim
Assets, equity and property – the millions spent on bonds
Self-fulfilling prophecy, in market psychology we shall trust
So put your money where mouth is and make the bid
There is no medal for second place

[Chorus:]
No, uninhibited speculation – incentive to flow
No, state subordinate to the paramount of individualism
No, dollar signs in their eyes; can’t you see how they glow?
No, penetration for acquisition – disintegrate capital account control!

Capitalism will free our souls
Necessity cleans the lice away
The anticipation of crude reward
Efficiency in its sickety form

Forward!
Forward!
Competition in its purity
Forward!
Forward!
Assert yourself accordingly

The bolt shall profit and seize

[Chorus:]
No, uninhibited speculation – incentive to flow
No, state subordinate to the paramount of individualism
No, dollar signs in their eyes; can’t you see how they glow?
No, penetration for acquisition – disintegrate capital account control!

Debt for debt!
Debt for debt!

9. Inhale The Sulphur

Well let’s all celebrate because another war has just begun
A cause so holy that no one would ever dare leave it undone
This isn’t just an acute gesture of national self-preservation:
Disprove all critics of our proud nation

To this unwarranted attack we resolutely respond
Prove to the whole world that no one can piss on our lawn
Hey! Who doesn’t know that we’re vulnerable as everybody else?
And we know that security is what truly sells

No need to moralize, we know that everyone will be on our side
We’ll sacrifice a few good men, but they’ll weigh up for what we idealize
It becomes all the more easy when we paint the world in black and white
Assure us of those with or against us of our undeniable right

It’s self-evident: the spirit of unity must subsist as our ideal
And dissupport our leadership with true patriotic zeals
Attention!
Aggression!
Concentration!
Ready-set-kill!

My name is Uncle Sam and I think I can solve your problem
Model on my homeland; home of the free; capital and religion
Never-mind the rest of the world we’ll do as we fucking please
And those against us we’ll eliminate with the greatest ease

Don’t say – we are what is freedom
Don’t say – if not against then with them
Don’t say – truth is sold
Don’t say – loss of liberty at the price of control?

Hear them! What splendour! Consolation for terror?
Fear them!? Is this the shell of our hollow pride?
My name is Uncle Sam and I think I can solve your problem
Model on my homeland; home of the free; capital and religion
Never-mind the rest of the world we’ll do as we fucking please
And those against us we’ll eliminate with the greatest ease

Don’t say – democracy
Don’t say – equality
Don’t say – land of the free
Don’t say – Man above the cause

Inhale the sulphur!
Inhale the sulphur!
Inhale the sulphur!
Inhale the sulphur!

10. Crawl To Exceed

Before you whip me into submission, torture me, exploit me
I think there's something you should know – I was born into the beating
I'll let you decide the position, control my dispositions
Your pity I accept willfully – if say it's so: it's so well...

Some say it's a game of mutual trust, but I don't care if you get too sordid
Don't you stop; we've just started true ways of sodomy
The scarcity of really living – the sense of truly exceeding
Enter the role of the sodomite, hurt is just a temporary feeling

Last breath before the beating now
Suppress the questions why or how
There's no rationale explanation
Mistress! Ready for my dedication!?

I know my place in the hierarchy
Lowest form must adhere perfectly
Oh, won't you please teach me –
Oh, what it means to dominate!

Insane! There's no room for pleading now
I sense the lust in your blows
I am S [-lave] and you are M [-aster]
Together we're sadomasochism
Insane!

Hit me harder!
Submit to my tainted stick
Bow down you're at the mercy of the whip
Never give-in to you
No need to explain, my solution is pain

To live you must learn to crawl, as a slave you can't have it all
Being a worthless piece of shit, doesn't make me feel small at all

Insane! There's no room for pleading now
I sense the lust in your blows
I am S [-lave] and you are M [-aster]
Together we're sadomasochism
Insane!

Hit me harder!
Submit to my tainted stick
Bow down you're at the mercy of the whip
Never give-in to you
No need to explain, my solution is pain

The sweet sting to the cracking sounds
The brilliant touch of inhumanity
There is no shame, my solution is pain

Woh, free to fall and I like what I feel
Woh, you got that sex-appeal
Woh, and I know exactly what you want...

This is just a demonstration of my therapy
This is just a demonstration of depravity
This is just a demonstration of sincerity
This is just a demonstration of my intensity

Of how low I can go...

Hit me harder!
Submit to my tainted stick
Bow down you're at the mercy of the whip
Never give-in to you
There is no shame, my solution is pain

There's no pleasing without teasing, go lie, lie...

11. Subtle Conversion (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi)

The grim reality has taken a twisted turn
In favor of those who stand unapologetic
Fanatics attack the structures of society –
Preserving their faith as champions of morality

Performing God’s work on Earth

What if we let ourselves be held hostage
to the rhetoric of irreconcilable values?
Hypocrites profound, denouncing all in their way
Poisoning children’s minds to maintain their position
through moral retribution
reproducing lies

The irony is as real as it is tragic –
religious zealots mobilize to bring on the second coming
Their strain of fascist idealism
meticulously designed to advance their own salvation

Ignite a war!

And is the end result holier than the means?
A pathetic attempt to restore some human dignity?
Paradox of democracy,
allowing those whom seek to destroy it
to exert their claims as we stand by and tolerate it as faith…
Sic transit gloria mundi [Thus passes the glory of the world]

[Chorus:]
We’re all in the same boat that barely floats
Yet true believers drive to see us drown
Fighting evil with evil – we choose replicate
History has a sordid-way of repeating itself
(Some obedient soul, oh-yeah)
Why can we never see this for ourselves?

Hey-ah!

Delusions of grandeur, since when did God represent peace and love?
Throughout the ages minions legitimized enemies shall pay with blood
Conformed rationale – self-righteous response
Judge they’d rather see the world burn, than the fully of what they believe

Waiting for their prayers to be heard and observed
Manipulating the highest quarters of political power
Arrogance, ignorance, in such lethal combination
Blind adherence to these words has come to signify…

How enmeshed we are in lies – Odium by default

[Chorus:]
We’re all in the same boat that barely floats
Yet true believers drive to see us drown
Fighting evil with evil – we choose replicate
History has a sordid-way of repeating itself
(Some obedient soul, oh-yeah)

Until the end
Programmed to the hate
Awaiting godsend
As the world’s wars join as one

12. Story Of The God, The Beast And The Fools Between

As if Gods and devils play out their schemes on Earth
Story of the God, the beast and the fools between [x4]
Throughout time men respond to their call
Story of the God, the beast and the fools between [x4]

Forever! Never seems to be a way out for humanity
We live as we shall surely fall
Creator: no longer need for him – outlived his functionality
We should live as if we were the It and the All

Prayers for solace never helped a thing
Story of the God, the beast and the fools between [x4]

Forever! Never seems to be a way out for humanity
We live as we shall surely fall
Creator: no longer need for him – outlived his functionality
We should live as if we were the It and the All

Playing our sensibilities – God never prevented tragedy
He lives in the fear of us all
We’re made in the eyes of God they say –
loved and watched by the perfect deity
We’re the living testament to his fallibility, his fallibility

Plain to see – God ran off from his responsibility
Plain to see – He let the demons run rampantly
Plain to see – We repeat our faults throughout history
Plain to see – It’s time we took our place as successors to be

The pains of the world constructed to make us seek his mercy
Story of the God, the beast and the fools between [x4]
The plan is to bend every being into conformity
Story of the God, the beast and the fools between [x4]

Forever! Never seems to be a way out for humanity
We live as we shall surely fall
Creator: no longer need for him – outlived his functionality
We should live as if we were the It and the All

Playing our sensibilities – God never prevented tragedy
He lives in the fear of us all
We’re made in the eyes of God they say –
loved and watched by the perfect deity
We’re the living testament to his fallibility

The stars, they call for us
The Universe outside implores us

Fools between
Fools between

Time to depart this wretched Earth
Time to leave…

Fools between







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