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HOLY WOOD (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death)
1. GODEATGOD
Dear god do you want to tear your knuckles down and hold yourself
Dear god do you you climb of that tree meat in the shape of a ''T''
Dear god the paper says you were the King in the black limousine
Dear John and all the King''s men can''t put your head together again Before the bullets before the flies before authorities take out my eyes the only smiling are you dolls that I made
but you are plastic and so are your brains
Dear god the sky is as blue as a gunshot wound
Dear god if you were alive you know we''d kill you
Before the bullets before the flies before authorities take out my eyes the only smiling are you dolls that I made
but you are plastic and so are your brains
2. THE LOVE SONG
The bullet:
"I''ve got a crush on a pretty pistol
should I tell her that I feel this way?
Father told us to be faithful
I''ve got a crush on a pretty pistol
should I tell her that I feel this way
I''ve got love songs in my head that are killing us away"
The Father:"do you love your guns?" (yeah)
"god?" (yeah) "the government?"
"do you love your guns?" (yeah) "god?" (yeah)
"the government?" (fuck yeah)
The bullet: "She tells me I''m a pretty bullet
I''m gonna be a star someday
Mother says that we should look away
She tells me I''m a pretty bullet an Imitation Christ
I''ve got love songs in my head that are killing us away"
The Father: "do you love your guns?" (yeah) "god?" (yeah)
"the government?" (fuck yeah)
3. THE FIGHT SONG
Nothing suffocates you more than the passing of everyday human events
Isolation is the oxygen mask
you make your children breath into survive
But I''m not a slave to a god that doesn''t exist
I''m not a slave to world that doesn''t give a shit
And when we were good you just closed you eyes
So when we are bad we''ll scar your minds
fight, fight, fight, fight
You''ll never grow up to be
a big-rock-star-celebrated-victim-of-your-fame
They''ll just cut our wrists
like cheap coupons and say that death
was on sale today
And when we were good you just closed you eyes
So when we are bad we''ll scar your minds
But I''m not a slave to a god that doesn''t exist
I''m not a slave to world that doesn''t give a shit
the death of one is a tragedy
but death of a million is just a statistic
(CHORUS) • • fight, fight, fight, fight • • •
4. DISPOSABLE TEENS
and I''m a black rainbow
and I''m an ape of god
I''ve got a face that''s made
for violence upon and I''m a teen distortion
survived abortion
a rebel from the waist down
I wanna thank you mom
I wanna thank you dad
for bringing this fucking world
to a bitter end
I never really hated the one true god
but the god of the people I hated
you said you wanted evolution
the ape was a great big hit
you say you want a revolution, man
and I say that you''re full of shit
The more that you fear us the bigger we get
the more that you fear us the bigger we get
and don''t be surprised, don''t be surprised
don''t be surprised when we destroy all of it
(CHORUS) we''re disposable teens we''re disposable teens
we''re disposable
5. TARGET AUDIENCE (NARCISSUS NARCOSIS)
Am I sorry your sky went black,
put your knives in babies backs?
Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy''s, and Huxley too?
But I''m sorry Shakespeare was your scapegoat
and your apple''s sticking into my throat
Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails
and your crucifixion commercials failed
but I''m just a pitiful anonymous
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
and we all just sing their song
Am I sorry to just to be alive
putting my face in the beehive?
Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too?
I''m sorry you never check the bag in my head for a bomb
and my halo was a needle hole
Sorry I saw a priest being beaten and I made a wish but I''m just a pitiful anonymous
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers
and we all just sing their song
"the valley of death we are free
your father''s your prison you see"
And I see all the young believers
Your target audience
I see all the old deceivers and we all just sing their song
you''re just a copy of an imitation
6. "PRESIDENT DEAD"
this is for the people, they want you
this is for the people, they want you
getting high on violence, baby
President Dead is clueless
and he''s caught in a headlight, police-state god
and his skull is stained glass
incubated and jet set
the bitter thinkers buy their tickets
to go find god like a piggy in a fair
and we don''t want to live forever
and we know that suffering is so much better
this is for the people, they want you
this is for the people, they want you
getting high on violence, baby
give the pills time to work
we all can''t be martyred in the
winter of our discontent
(getting high on violence, baby)
every night we are nailed into place and
every night we just can''t seem to
ever remember the reason why
(getting high on violence, baby)
and we don''t want to live forever
and we know that suffering is so much better
this is for the people, they want you
this is for the people, they want you
getting high on violence, baby
and we don''t want to live forever
and we know that suffering is so much better
7. IN THE SHADOW OF THE VALLEY OF DEATH
We have no future heaven wasn''t made for me
we burn ourselves to hell
as fast as it can be
and I wish that I could be a king
then I''d know that I am not alone
Maggots put on shirts sell each others shit
sometimes I feel so worthless sometimes I feel discarded
I wish that I was good enough then I''d know that I am not alone
Death is policeman Death is the priest
Death is the stereo Death is a TV
Death is the Tarot Death is an angel and
Death is our God killing us all
she puts the seeds in me plant this dying tree
she''s a burning string
and I''m just the ashes
she puts the seeds in me
plant this dying tree
she''s a burning string
and I''m just the ashes
8. CRUCI-FICTION IN SPACE
this is evolution the monkey the man and then the gun
if Christ was in Texas the hammer the sickle the only son
this is your creation the atom of Eden was a bomb
if Jack was the Baptist we''d drink wine from his head
this is evolution the monkey the man and then the gun
I am a revolution pull my knuckles down if I could
I am a revelation and I''m nailed to the Holy Wood
this is evolution the monkey the man and then the gun
we are dead and tomorrow''s canceled
because of things we did yesterday
we are dead and tomorrow''s canceled
they crucify us in our space
in our space in our space...
this is evolution the monkey the man and then the gun
...flies are waiting
9. A PLACE IN THE DIRT
We are damned and we are dead
all god''s children to be sent
to our perfect place in the sun
and in the dirt
There''s a windshield in my heart
we are bugs so smeared and scarred
and could you stop the meat from thinking
before I swallow all of it,
could you please?
Put me in the motorcade
put me in the death parade
dress me up and make me
dress me up and make me
your dying god angels with needles
poked through our eyes<
let the ugly light of the world in
we were no longer blind
we were no longer blind
Put me in the motorcade
put me in the death parade
dress me up and make me
dress me up and make me
your dying god
Now we hold the "ugly head"
the Mary-whore is at the bed
They''ve cast the shadow of our perfect death
in the sun and in the dirt.
10. THE NOBODIES
Today I am dirty
I want to be pretty
Tomorrow, I know I''m just dirt
We are the nobodies
we wanna be somebodies
when we''re dead,
they''ll know just who we are
Yesterday I was dirty
wanted to be pretty
I know now that I''m forever dirt
We are the nobodies
we wanna be somebodies
when we''re dead, they''ll know just who we are
Some children died the other day
we fed machines and then we prayed
puked up and down in morbid faith
you should have seen the ratings that day...
11. THE DEATH SONG
We''re on a bullet and we''re headed straight into god
even he''d like to end it too we take a pill, get a face
buy our ticket and we hope that heaven''s true
I saw a cop beat a priest on the TV
and they know they killed our heroes too
We sing the death song kids
because we''ve got no future and we want to be just like you
and we want to be just like you
Let''s sing the death song kids
we light a candle on an earth
we made into hell and pretend that we''re in heaven
each time we do we get the blind man''s ticket
and we know that nothing''s true
I saw priest kill a cop on the TV and
I know now they''re our heroes too
We sing the death song kids
because we''ve got no future
and we want to be just like you
and we want to be just like you
Let''s sing the death song kids
we write our prayers on a little bomb
kiss it on the face and send it to god
(CHORUS) We were the world
but we''ve got no future and
we want to be just like you
we want to be just like you.
12. THE LAMB OF GOD
There was Christ in the metal shell
there was blood on the pavement
The camera will make you god
that''s how Jack became sainted
If you die when there''s no one watching
then your ratings drop and you''re forgotten
but if they kill you on their TV
you''re a martyr and a lamb of god
nothing''s going to change
nothing''s going to change the world
There was Lennon in the happy gun
there were words on the pavement
we were looking for the lamb of god
we were looking for Mark David
If you die when there''s no one watching
then your ratings drop and you''re forgotten
but if they kill you on their TV
you''re a martyr and a lamb of god
Nothing''s going to change the world
nothing''s going to change
Nothing''s going to change the world
nothing''s going to change the world
it took three days for him to die
so the born again could buy the serial rights
lamb of god have mercy on us
lamb of god won''t you grant us
Nothing''s going to change the world
nothing''s going to change
Nothing''s going to change the world
nothing''s going to change the world
If you die when there''s no one watching
then your ratings drop and you''re forgotten
but if they kill you on their TV
you''re a martyr and a lamb of god
nothing''s going to change the world
13. BORN AGAIN
Do you or don''t you want this to be your song?
It doesn''t take a rebel to sing along.
This art is weak in its pretty frame
and I am a monkey with a misspelled name
"I''ll put down you disco and take you heart away.
I''ll put down you disco and take your heart away"
I''ll be born again
I''m someone else
I''m someone new
I''m someone stupid just like you
I''m someone else
I''m someone new
I''m someone stupid just like you
do you or don''t you want to take this hit?
Does it make you feel like you''re a part of "it."
"I''ll put down you disco
and take you heart away.
I''ll put down you disco
and take your heart away"
I''ll be born again
I''m someone else
I''m someone new
I''m someone stupid just like you
I''m someone else
I''m someone new
I''m someone stupid just like you
the valley of the dolls is the valley of the dead
the valley of the dolls is the valley of the dead
(CHORUS) I''ll be born again...
14. BURNING FLAG
They want to sell it out
buy it up and dumb it down
a good god is hard to find
I''ll join the crowd that
wants to see me dead
right now I feel I belong for the first time
multiply your death
divide by sex
add up the violence and
what do you get?
We are all just stars and we''re waiting
we are all just scarred and we''re hating
we are all just stars on your burning flag
you can point your gun at me
and hope it will go away
but if god was alive,
he would hate you anyway
my right wing is flapping
the left one is grey
let''s hear it for the kids but
nothing they say
they gyrate and G-rate
on Election Day
we got out ABC''s and our F U C K
multiply your death
divide by sex
add up the violence and
what do you get?
We are all just stars and we''re waiting
we are all just scarred and we''re hating
we are all just stars on your burning flag
you can point your gun at me
and hope it will go away
but if god was alive,
he would hate you anyway
15. COMA BLACK
a) EDEN EYE My mouth was a crib and it was growing lies
I didn''t know what love was on that day
my heart''s a tiny bloodclot
I picked at it it never heals it never goes away
I burned all the good things in The Eden Eye
we were too dumb to run too dead to die
I burned all the good things in The Eden Eye
we were too dumb to run too dead to die
This was never my world
you took the angel away
I''d kill myself to make everybody pay
This was never my world
you took the angel away
I''d kill myself to make everybody pay
I would have told her then
she was the only thing
I could love in this dying world
but the simple word "love" itself
already died and went away
This was never my world
you took the angel away
I''d kill myself to make everybody pay
This was never my world
you took the angel away
I''d kill myself to make everybody pay
I burned all the good things in The Eden Eye
we were too dumb to run too dead to die
I burned all the good things in The Eden Eye
we were too dumb to run too dead to die
b) APPLE OF DISCORD
Her heart''s bloodstained egg
we didn''t handle with care
it''s broken and bleeding
and we can never repair
16. VALENTINE''S DAY
She was the color of TV
her mouth curled under like a metal snake
although Holy Wood was sad
they''d remember this as Valentine''s day
flies are waiting
In the Shadow of the Valley of Death
In the Shadow of the Valley of Death
they slit our wrists and send us to heaven
the first flower after the flood
I saw that pregnant girl today
she didn''t know that it was dead inside
even though it was alive
some of us are really
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