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ELECTRIC FRANKENSTEIN
The Time Is Now
"Teenage Shutdown"
Pressure here and pressure there/ you tell another lie
People touch and people stare/ you tell the world goodbye
This is an ecstatic scene/ cant get enough of it
Legal system rnakes you scream/ you never try to fit
Violence just for violence's sake/ but do you really care
Violence was your first mistake/ and will you ever dare
People come and people go/ you gotta make it stick
No one ever really knows/ the system makes you sick
Teenage Shutdown. One big let down
Teenage Shutdown. One big let down
People on the run around/ ain't got a fucking clue
Never see me on the ground/I don't get through to you
Promises I never keep/ you know it's no surprise
Now I'm in it far too deep/ and you just hide your eyes
Everybody gives it up/ you dont know how to stop
You never get another shot/ and I'm the one on top
People learning how to cry/ it's just another fad
People learning how to die/ and that's what makes me mad
Teenage Shutdown. One big let down
Teenage Shutdown. One big let down
So now you lake another lesson/ but will you ever learn?
Now I've got another weapon/I leave you here to burn
Teenage is what teenage does/ you don't know what to do
Teenage aint what teenage was/ I'm coming after you
Try to tell me what to do/ But I don't hear at all
The system's falling down on you/you gotta take the fall
People get a little close/ that's when I run and hide
It's life that l depend on most/ It's just to save my pride
Teenage Shutdown. One big let down
Teenage Shutdown. One big let down
Money's everybody's dream/ you never get enough
Sex is everybody's scene/ but getting it is tough
Take it, leave it, I dont care/ cause now I'm living large
Seams split on the clothes I wear/ leave no one else in charge
Pressure here and pressure there/ under the gun again
People touch and people stare/ you try your luck again
Someone has a better plan/ you dont know what to do
Someone built a better man/ so they got rid of you
Teenage/ Shutdown, Teenage/ Shutdown
Teenage/ Shutdown, One big/ let/ down
"The Time Is Now"
All the love/ and all the hate
And all the promises/ that wait
I'm so tired/ so sick and tired
The Time is Now/ so don't be late
All the truth/ and all the lies
And all the promises/ you buy
l'm so tired/ so sick and tired
The Time is Now/ so don't be late
I'm standing naked - in the middle of this room
Promise me the sun cause - I just fell off the moon
My heart stopped achin' - It just ran out of room
I don't feel crazy anymore- there's blood on the moon
All the love/ and all the hate
And all the promises/ that wait
I'm so tired/ so sick and tired
The time is now/ so don't be late
All the truth/ and all the lies
And all the promises/ you buy
l'm so tired/ so sick and tired
The Time is Now/ so don't be late
If you used to - well, you never did
If you're gonna, - then, you never will
Everyone gets tired - of a one trick pony
The time is now - so why don't you show me
All the crime/ All for the taking
And all the promises/ you've been mistaking
l'm so tired/ so sick and tired
The Time is now/ so don't be late
All that's future/ and all that's past
And all the promises/ that won't last
l'm so tired/ so sick and tired
The Time is Now/ so don't be late
"Superstar"
Sound over image; risk over fashion
Still ain't got no satisfaction
Gotta wake up this generation
Stay on target to liberation
I'm a superstar philospher
For the great unwashed
With a new voice callin'
For sonic integrity
When tomorrow's not today
Come be a disciple of sound
Where beauty meets beast
In the electric dark
In rage: thought I'd be past it
At this age. it's the same thing but bigger
Give me back my innocence
To when I didn't know better
In between the disassociated
And those who do not belong
They lacking identification
They're the kids of my generation
Sooner or later we'll all touch
And hit a raw nerve
To be shockingly exposed
Like a criminal
"Right on Target"
They say the city is so mean
And the suburbs
So very clean
We're dodging bullets
In the streets
Or blocking brain
Washing techniques
I'm back on track
Thought I was a goner
But it wasn't meant to be
I'm right on target (prelude to riot)
Now there's no stoppin' me
They might shoot you
Full of holes
But sometimes they
Want your soul
Suburban commandos
Full of ammo
Down in flames
Too hot to handle
I'm back on track
Thought I was a goner
But it wasn't meant to be
I'm right on target (prelude to riot)
Now there's no stoppin' me
Up against the wall mother-fucker
It's social punks out
On parade
Wait till tomorrow
and see who's still
Left standing
It high society's
Low-life's full of rage
I'm back on track
Thought I was a goner
But it wasn't meant to be
I'm right on target (prelude to riot)
Now there's no stoppin' me
"l Want More"
I'm a monster trapped in human form
Despise me and I'll return the favor
This air-conditioned nightmare
Brings out the beast in me
We're the one in ten, invisible men
Things just aren't what they seem
With me the judge, you the blame
It's DOA, - everyday
I Live the American Dream
- with a scream
And I want some more
- of that bad stuff
I want some more
I want some more
I want some more
l want some more
So cruel, so silent a bloody purge
Of the shelter and deadening of apathy
One by one. it will be done
Replacing those who are now pure stone
To feel the real and need it more
Highest honor comes from how deep you know
There's one for one and only one
Feel me now and lose control
"Demolition Derby/ Demolition Joyride"
I'm going on a Demolition Joyride
Cause I'm a wreck over you
I'm gonna be in a Demolition Derby
Cause my life's a wreck too
Demolition Joyride, Demolition Derby
Demolition Joyride, Demolition Derby
I've got the shakes, can't keep my hands on the wheel
On the move, on the go, no fixed address
Nowhere to send the bill or the cops
There's no one home, my head is my house
I've lost my watch and it feels like tomorrow
No time to figure out my next move
Because it is already happening
So much to do, dont know where to start
The future's waiting to get fucked, but good
Nothing saved for next time
Cause there ain't no next time
Everybody makes me out to be the bad guy
Looking to take a swing at yours truly
(Head's humming waiting for your promise
But all you give me is bad advice)
"E.F. Theme"
My mother was electricity: My father was a corpse
Together they made history: So I was born of course
They baptized me - In hell fire
They made my heart ---- Out of barbed wire
What's my name? Just a ghost with a face?
Or an outcast from - the human race?
With both ends buming, l burn brightest
I am the new breed, and you will be the dust
Because I'm different, because I'm free
Because I'm everything you wish to be
Because I'm not afraid of tempting fate
Because I'm always willing to lake the bait
I see you through my monster's eyes
It shows me what you want to hide
I am the horrible truth; yes the bastard son
The bad conscience of everyone
And though l may be - Ripped and torn
Just an object - Of your scorn
I'm ready to provoke and be provoked
My will is strong, it cant be broke
All right now this is it!
(You know my secret)
All right now this is it!
All right now this is it!
"Fast and Furious"
They're so bored with the USA
But there's always an ear turned our way
So frantic to find that rush again
But it looks like all the veins have caved in
They got manic street preachers with nothing to say
While their kids go begging on the tubeway
Trying to shine again with denim and suede
But all I really want is some radiohead
Sister Britannia don't disappoint me
You got to wake up and smell the coffee
Your melody maker is deaf, and . . .
You know who is the enemy (the NME)
England's dreaming, I read the other day
Now they're having a nightmare that won't go away
Where are those days of hope and glory?
Was it true or was it just another story?
We all know about the power of the press
Controlling what you know like the thought police
If it's not approved, it's choked before it starts
The rest is exported and then spat out
I'm in pursuit of that priceless moment
While eveyone's looking for the next big thing
All I hear now Is just a joke
Hey, sleeping beauty, it's time to go to work
Oh, it's fading fast and furious
What's next I am so curious
Rushing home to hear the apocalypse
It's from the sounds that I get my kicks
Hope these sonic blasts of TNT
Will once again mean something to me
"Rise and Crash"
Coming down, corning down
l feel the street under rny feet
I taste hostility. insecurity and fear
My mouth rolls them to the beat
This is good, this is bad
I'm ready to be struck like a match
Lit to watch the explosions in my head
Catch the lightening rise and crash
So ready to riot - so malcontent
Now it's time to - pay the rent
Outside - Agitator
Action man won't wait till later
It's about time things got heavy
If it's a fight, are you ready?
Make a choice before it's made for you
It's comin' down, headin towards you
How do you act your age
When you're full of rage
You WEar a mask on your face
To hide your rat race
Caged too long in this human zoo
You cant let it get to you
You're so dull - got no action
Livin' life like you're in traction
Working to make yourself obsolete
Something tells me you're incomplete
You got a lot of plans in your head
As long as the phone is next to the bed
The king of the mountain must keep the pace
Or be the first - with a bullet in the face
'We Are the Dangerous'
Working class hero, working class zero
Tell me who's the real weirdo
Outside your living room door
The neighbors dying on the floor
Did you get what you've been looking for?
Did you find what's behind the door?
ls this what you've been hoping for?
Did you settle for nothin' more?
Mass confusion, packed in like cigarettes
Smoke filled rooms, sucking in my breath
Rooms of victims, numb from crisis
Sing a litany of woe and mistakes
Forget what they say, they lie to your face
The scenery changes, but it's the same old place
Everyone's always lookin'. for satisfaction
For me it's the worst that can happen
As cut-rate solutions continue to spread
Twisted kicks will play with your head
We are the apocalypse
We are here lo wipe the slate clean
We are the bridge between the old and new
We are the door that you must get through
(They are obviously afraid of us
We are the dangerous
No one knows what became of us
We are the dangerous) x4
All the lost lonely hearts are done in flames
They took the dead and left the lame
All stand waiting for the end
While torrents rise. in fountains of red
Waste time preaching to bones In the valley
While confessing who may be the enemy
Isn't it dangerous to walk around like this?
Might look over the edge fall Into the abyss
We are the dangerous (repeat)
"Too Much For You"
They say I'm sick for things I do and think
But I'm free to break the mold.
While you do what you're expected or told
You know I'm it. You only got a learner's permit
I can do what you're afraid to
Passive nothing, gel a jolt from my fist
Lazy state of wow, needs a personal exorcisl
Get out of bed, you might as well as dead
It's too much for you, it's all you can do
Too keep up with me, you know it's got to be
All or nothing, all or nothing
All or nothing, all or nothing (it's too much for me)
Just a bug, pest with nothing to do
Get out of here, I'm tired of you
Not a clue about what is what
You lack charisma, brains, and guts
I do my best without a doubt
You can stare, point me out
But you run, when I'm around
Cant go far, on your way down
On your way down, on your way down
On your way down
I'm the people, you were warned about
The one's that get all they want
They say I'm crazy, but you're too late
Try to stop with your jealousy
I remind you of all you don't do
While you destroy your self and those around you
Deep down you know you're so ugly
And i'm from the town without pity
Town without pity, town without pity
Town without pity
"A Sweet Sickness"
Just listen to this
You know what I miss
That tender touch
So precious
After dark my sweet, you know what they say
Angel's wash their faces
Out making a mess, celebrating trash
In an orgy of excess -
A little knowledge Is still, a dangerous thing
It's a threatening thrill -
Kiss me quick, the smell of honey
Makes me sick -
A sweet sickness, a sweet sickness
Comes over me
I'm looking for something I want
It's too late to stop now!
A sweet sickness, a sweet sickness
Comes over me
I'm looking for something I want
I know a little doll
With real eyes
Full of passion
That tell no lies
Let's blow it All up, and start again
This center of attentlon
Came panting and running, the little death
Finally stopped coming
What's obvious is true. face to face
I know you
Once around the bend and straight on thru
This could be the end
I'm looking for something I want (repeat 8x) |
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