 Genius Lyrics
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Killing Joke – Sanity
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All across the scenes the statues crumble / We cherished the seconds, counted the days / And people move with lines across their faces / Embracing each other with a smile / For
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Killing Joke – Pandemonium
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[Instrumental intro] / [Verse 1] / She talks of supernatural aeons that we'll make / She says: Look behind the wave of changes / Feel the future taking shape / [Chorus] / I can see
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Volturian – The Killing Joke
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Different like day and night / On a beam of light we'll walk / Where sanity is just a step away from our demise / You'll go first, I'll come behind / And what divided us is made of
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Killing Joke – Exorcism
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Rise from my unconscious let it rise / Get it out get it out get it out / Behind the illusion of reality / Are forces that speak to me / We will draw them out / We will cast them
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Killing Joke – Millennium
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I was born to see two thousand years / Of man's effect upon the planet / Extinction seems to be a plausible risk / Whatever happens, well I'm part of all this / All my life / I've
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Killing Joke – Euphoria
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Overcast, the branches bare / The autumn leaves have fallen / I can hear the magpies laugh / I can’t shake this melancholy / And then the clouds break / A ray of sunlight / Gloria
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Killing Joke – Inferno
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[Verse 1] / Southern countries / Come in 20 chains / When the dust picks the dust / All the things are crossed insane / And my skin, feel my skin / Getting melanoma / Scorcher
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Captain Murphy – The Killing Joke
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Captain Murphy’s ninth track off of his debut album Duality. It tells the story of Captain Murphy’s rising fame and the pressure that it has placed upon him. Murphy compares
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Killing Joke – A New Day
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You / You wake up to a new day / Forwards / We move towards a new way, oh / Come with me / Gather with your torches / Singing / Dance by [?]night, we all are strong / A new day, oh
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Killing Joke – Democracy
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You have a choice, we are your voice / Red, blue or yellow / We will ridicule the green / Another five lane motorway / You'll never even get a referendum anyway / Funny handshakes
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Killing Joke – Whiteout
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Leave my body lose myself / Leave this planet and leave this hell / Born in the east die in the west / I never rest I never rest - whiteout / Backwards backwards lose all time
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Killing Joke – Labyrinth
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Running through this maze - cry at what I see / A civilization with values alien to me / All the role models, lost souls, false gods that I am shown / Ordeals that I pass through
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Killing Joke – Nervous System
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Everybody's looking for a life / Looking for a wife, no escape / Beat the other man, get your money, get your car / It's a bit of a joke / You're walking down the streets / You see
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Killing Joke – Eighties
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Released in 1984 as the lead single from the band’s fifth album Night Time, “Eighties” carries plenty of late-20th century political comment; indeed the music video sees Jaz
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Killing Joke – Total
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Too much sorrow, too much pain / Piss, death, decay / Love is lost again, this never-caring rain / Nothing ventured and nothing ever gained / Blocking out the past, I'm spinning
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Killing Joke – New Jerusalem
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Fragmented communities / Staring at their screens in silence / All night surfing til the dawn / Everyone´s hooked on online porn / All the people indifferent to torture / The media
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Killing Joke – Night Time
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Night time - turning out the sun / Countdown - pulsing like a machine / Conflict - cars and people, steel on flesh / Night time - desperations sweat on breath / Bloodstains - night
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Killing Joke – Lanterns
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Equinox sun / Summers of fun / No mortgage repayments / To weigh on my mind / And if it all fell through tomorrow / Put my pack on my back / And it's home where the lunatics roam
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Killing Joke – Asteroid
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[Intro] / And the third angel sounded / And a star fell from heaven / Burning as it were a lamp / And it fell upon the third part of the waters / [Hook] / Asteroid / [Verse 1] / I'
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Killing Joke – Communion
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I see patterns in the wind and in the sand / I see the stars, I read the clouds, I understand / Then the madness overwhelmed (I lost control) / It was cut out for each stain upon
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Killing Joke – Adorations
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Courage and Cowards move, heroes to ecstasy / Welcomes of war and wounds, vigil and victory / Structures of atoms dance, sugar towards the taster / Prey to the predator, love as we
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Killing Joke – Intellect
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Gold rimmed glasses hypnotize / Acts of love are analyzed / Rites of passage rationalized / Reason then gives birth to lies / Don't pull me, don't pull me / Don't pull me down
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Killing Joke – Primobile
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Songs of joy & sorrow echo expressions of unity / Rejoice in precious moments - chants & noises of purity / Separated from each other yet bounded by time as one / Past hurt
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Killing Joke – Autonomous Zone
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Living outside of the grid is the goal / Misery lies at the heart of control… / Dancing and playing to be with my kind / Smoke, fuck and joke, I’m just passing the time
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Killing Joke – Panopticon
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[Verse 1:] / Self censorship, self policing / Shaping human behaviour / Computer games, low attention span / Distractions for the servile brain / Inside the, Panopticon / You don’t
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Killing Joke – Love Like Blood
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[Verse 1] / We must play our lives like soldiers in the field / The life is short, I'm running faster all the time / Strength and beauty destined to decay / So cut the rose in full
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Killing Joke – Rapture
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Nothing is real / All is illusion / Escape from flesh / Transcend the earthly / With fire and chants / Purification / Between the worlds / In this state of bill / Rapture / Rapture
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Killing Joke – Chessboards
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We in our infancy, led down shining paths / Shine, shine, shining paths, divine our disillusion / Face our imperfections, I begin to wonder / Onion peelings scattered, we've been
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Killing Joke – Follow the Leaders
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Come inside boy - they call this fun! / Music to please the adolescent / Taking the easy way out again / Part of the process - same old story / Follow the leader! / Follow the
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Killing Joke – Invocation
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Hearts of darkness and hate / O evil, oblivion your fate / O betrayers I come a war without end / My enemy's enemy is my friend / Mankind becomes the whore / Temples are empty - no
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Killing Joke – Plague
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[Verse 1:] / Understand it has taken over / Understand the extent of the problem / Understand you are part of the sickness / Comfort lovers of the good life acquiesce / Like a
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Killing Joke – Glitch
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Glitch, get ready for the glitch / Cities on blackout / Satellites are knocked out / I-phones, laptops, it's one big belly flop / Servers, TV, alarms and security / And everything'
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Killing Joke – The Lightbringer
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The rebellious spirit in you and me / The Lightbringer / Which intelligence gave geometry / Binary system, complex cycles of astronomy? / Number, proportion, measurement, light
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Killing Joke – Europe
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Take up your arms pick up your courage / A black sun is rising as the gods of Europe sleep / Come back into your strength awaken / Catastrophes atrocities shall summon you my love
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Killing Joke – Implant
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[Intro] / Silent weapons for a quiet war / [Verse 1] / Under my skin, getting under my skin / All systems go / Security clause, passing of laws / Reality / [Verse 2] / Silence in
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Killing Joke – Jana
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She hears his footsteps, he walks up the path / And when the letter drops her heart beats fast / She picks up the envelope then she turns her face away / She'll check out her
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Killing Joke – Dregs
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Pre-war parties / Everyone's hearty / Uh, evening, uh, and a, tiddley-boo / Uh, energy / An envision / A religion / Eat to be, and a tootly-too / I'll be too, and a k-k-k-koo / A
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Killing Joke – Aeon
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Denominations of a thousand different deities / Congregations, endless carnivals of gaiety / Why should I fear? Why should I cling on to anything? / It's not how long I live but
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Killing Joke – Unspeakable
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(It's come!) / Facts and figures - the clocks turn backwards / Facts and figures turn anticlockwise / Many signposts leading to the same place / I wonder who chose the colour
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Killing Joke – Corporate Elect
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Grand masters pulling strings / Wet dreams of a new world order / Neo-feudal blueprints rise / We all got fooled again / It's an ADD generation / Everyone accepts / The re-
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Killing Joke – The Raven King
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The raven's flown and left the tower / And Albion feels all abandoned / A desecrated cenotaph - surveillance state and waning choices / Guarded by warriors we knew / Guided by our
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Killing Joke – Pole Shift
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It doesn't really matter if the south turns north / Or the stars above stop in their course / If ten thousand coastal cities are taken by the wave or not / The outcome's still the
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Killing Joke – You'll Never Get to Me
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[Intro] / Oh! / [Verse 1] / Sea of hurt, I feel the waves of pain / And now the tides come in again / I'm caught in a vicious cycle of despair / Give me the courage to face another
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Killing Joke – Honour the Fire
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Just for this moment / The glorious now / Just to feel freedom / Just for the sounds / Shoulder to shoulder / Until the end / Constant companion / Eternal Friend / And the fire
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