"Ten In 2010"
 
Parched, cracked mouths, empty swollen guts
Sun-baked pavement encroaches on us
Haves and have-nots together at last
Brutally engaged in mortal combat

Ten In 20-10
Ten In 20-10

What kind of God orchestrates such a thing?
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)
Ten billion people all suffering
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)
Truth is not an issue just a hungry mouth to feed
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)
Forget what you want, scrounge the things you need
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)

Ten In 20-10
Ten In 20-10

Ahhhh!

Happy and content it can't happen to you
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)
Fifteen years we'll think of a solution
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)
It won't just appear in one day
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)
For ten in twenty-ten we're well on our way
(Ten In 20-10; ten In 20-10)

Ten In 20-10
Ten In 20-10

Like piercing ear darts, I heard the news today
10 billion people coming your way

Ten In 20
Ten In 20
Ten In 20-10

"Victory"
 
The velveteen and oaken pastries soothed the lonely child
The parents watched the escort take him while they stood outside
The priest was kind and gentle as he positioned his head
The pain was like brimstone, but the kid hardly bled

Victory
Instinct over intellect
Victory
It erupts from deep inside

History
History is laughing at us
Plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory

Among the parade crowd there stands a decorated man
Remembering how he helped to save this sacred land
His helpless enemy was wounded, both hands raised with hope
He killed him without second thought, with brute force and a rope

Victory
Instinct over intellect
Victory
It erupts from deep inside

History
History is laughing at us
Plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory

So many times, so many lives
Test the other side
Waiting to see what the maker has in mind

The unsuspecting commoners hum diligent each day
They wallow in their father's sins, as time passes away
The crimes are without motive but they ignore all restraint
The evil sits inside them torpid timing its escape

Victory
Instinct over intellect
Victory
It erupts from deep inside

History
History is laughing at us
Plotting its discovery
(Ahh) Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory

Blame it on the victory
Blame it on the victory

Plotting its discovery
Victory, victory
Blame it on the victory

"Drunk Sincerity"
 
The smell of virgin pages wafted through the swinging doors
And the croaking speech he'd heard from countless counselors before
They said "We all care for you, we know how you suffer
But I know you can succeed, I used to have it so much rougher"

There's hope in the words and emotion in the eyes
It's so easy to be misled by the savvy gentle guise
And like fools we trust the delivery
But it's all just drunk sincerity

In maternal family assembly poised regarding the blue tube
The numbers crept up higher and the hawks stayed out of view
Then the generals said "We don't want our boys dead
Your sons and your husbands will be coming back heroes soon"

With steam, heat, and rhythm in the back seat of the car
And adolescent perspective projecting life's forecast to the stars
You heard love from the lips and you were rapt by the hips
And the promise was eternal but you couldn't see that far

"Come Join Us"
 
so you say you gotta know why the world goes 'round
and you can't find the truth in the things you've found
and you're scared shitless 'cuz evil abounds
come and join us

well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in
full of adherent people with the same objective
a family to cling to and call brethren
come and join us

all we want to do is change your mind
all you need to do is close your eyes

so come and join us
come and join us
come and join us

don't you see the trouble that most people are in
and that they just want you for their own advantage
but I swear to you we're different from all of them
come and join us
I can tell you are lookin' for a way to live
where truth is determined by consensus
full of codified arbitrary directives
come and join us
all we want to have is your small mind
turn it into one of our own kind
you can go through life adrift and alone
desperate, desolate, on your own
but we're lookin' for a few more stalwart clones
so come and join us
come and join us
come and join us

we've got spite and dedication as a vehement brew
the world hates us, well we hate them too
but you're exempted of course if you
come and join us
independent, self-contented, revolutionary
intellectual, brave, strong and scholarly
if you're not one of them, you're us already so
come and join us

"Cease"
 
blacktop pavement cover me
like a chemical reaction or a steam roller
spreading randomly

there's a distant buzz and a low frequency
it tickles my ear, it rumbles under my feet
and it shakes the leaves off of every tree (violently)
what pretension! Everlasting peace
everything must cease

institution on the Hill
like a beacon in the mind of an ancestor
to ignite a people's will

there's a shadowed stain on the west facade
it has spread like decay to enshroud the fraud
and the descendants find oh so odd (oh so odd)
what pretension! Everlasting peace
everything must cease

grave memorial hewn white stone
like the comforting caress of a mother
or a friend you've always known

it evokes such pain and significance
what was once is reduced to remembrance
and the generations pass without recompense (oh!)
what pretension! Everlasting peace
everything must cease

what pretension! everlasting peace
everything must...

No Substance (1998)



1.   Hear It
2.   Shades Of Truth
3.   All Fantastic Images
4.   The Biggest Killer In American History
5.   No Substance
6.   Raise Your Voice
7.   Sowing The Seeds Of Utopia
8.   The Hippy Killers
9.   The State Of The End Of The Millenium Adress
10.   The Voracious March Of Godliness
11.   Mediocre Minds
12.   Victims Of The Revolution
13.   Strange Denial
14.   At The Mercy Of Imbeciles
15.   The Same Person
16.   In So Many Ways

"Hear It"
 
Like a morning crow and his unwelcome song
Or a worn-out broken record that keeps skipping along
Mountains of instructions you keep piling on me
Resound like a cacophonous symphony
But I don't wanna hear it anymore
Priests and politicians pretend they're your friend
And police speak to you like you're a child again
Blanket statements cover you like a rug
And thet tell me maybe I'm acting a little too smug
But I don't wanna hear it anymore
Every day we hear the secrets of life
Reduced to cheap jokes, poetry, and friendly advice
They'd rather see us all pusillanimous
Absorbent in their chorus of correctness
But I don't wanna hear it anymore

"Shades Of Truth"
 
Here inside this quiet room there's direction
Outside in the sultry noon-time reflection
A million scurry they are looking for advice
None willing to lend charity just exercise their
Shades of Truth, and partisan convention
Shades of Truth between dispirate lines
Shades of Truth interpret my intentions
You don't know I'm alright
Who authored the blueprints and made us captains?
Someone proclaimed creation, people listened
While children by the millions are thrown into this zoo
The so-called gift of clarity!
Oh what was God up to?
Shades of Truth, and lenient conventions
Shades of Truth, between dispirate lines
Shades of Truth interpret my intentions
You don't know I'm alright
So many walking paralell and pull their blinders tight
So few offer apology and accept others rights
And nothing absolutely can be cherished in the end
Can't we all accept that it will all happen again?
Just partisan convention
Shades of Truth between dispirate lines
Shades of Truth interpret my intentions
You don't know I'm alright

"All Fantastic Images"
 
England seemed like such a beautiful place from afar
Until one day I went and saw how miserable things really are
All Fantastic Images they only are apparent
Propagated just by hope and desire to share it
Beauty was the allure that brought me close to you
Loneliness was the bond that made me stick like glue
All Fantastic Images they only are apparent
Promoted by desperate hope that things are somewhere better
I don't have a thing against fantasy
But to chase it down just don't make sense to me
If you're only hope is simply peace and love
You end up discarding most of what you're made of
All Fantastic Images they only are apparent
Promoted by desperate hope
And the need to share it

"The Biggest Killer In American History"
 
K..k..k..killer
K..k..k..killer

You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes.
Furniture makers, carpenters too
Bombers and commandos, all with some lost cause
Disgruntled workers, immersed in "veritás"

But stealthily, in the land of the free,
it's lurking right there, most are unaware of

The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
And God shed his grace on thee

Business institutions, universities
Both are quite the circus when the killer wants his way
I think of Edward Teller and his moribund reprise
Then I look to Nevada and I can't believe my eyes
It's time for him to die!

Most cannot remember minutia learned in school
It's not there on the blackboard, it's what they don't tell you
We have got a problem, it starts and ends right here
It can be defeated but you've got to face your fear

We'll join and unite and steady our sight
Then we'll put it right 'cuz it's time to fight

The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
The biggest killer in American history
And God shed his grace on thee