Wardance Lyrics
Out on the town
Music for pleasure
Its not music no more
Music to move
This is music to march to
Do a war dance
Sprawled on the wall
You know the the reason
Outside the door
Nasty in your mind
Crawling to get out
Do a war dance
Honesty is sick
Try to be honest
Look what you get
And then the money talks
One way out
The premonition is correct
Agentlemonhead, I agree completely. Killing Joke are hugely influential - Trent Reznor stole every idea he ever used from them. And musically they are superb - Geordie Walker's guitar playing sends shivers down my spine every time I hear it.
This song was covered (as a gloriously entertaining brainless bounce-around version) by The Mad Capsule Markets. Worth hearing if you get the chance.
It is an anti-society call for revolution. Kind of like an angry rant. I always like to remind people that the only person who usually knows for sure is the guy who writes it.
The atmosphere's strange Out on the town Music for pleasure Its not music no more
Music to dance to Music to move This is music to march to Do a war dance
The war dance...
Look at the graffiti Sprawled on the wall You know the the reason Outside the door
You got something Nasty in your mind Crawling to get out Do a war dance
The war dance...
We walk on the pitch Honesty is sick Try to be honest Look what you get
The food runs short And then the money talks One way out The premonition is correct
The war dance...
It's funny how a band that has influenced so many famous bands can be so not widely known. As simple as this particular song is, it really sounds great to me.
If it weren't for these guys, there'd be no industrial metal, and there's no telling how different pure industrial and pure metal would be either.
Dancing for war is like fucking for virginity: by which I mean a lot of fun.
Correction! is right. Killing Joke did take influence from the likes of TG and Einsturzende, though and if I'm not mistaken they were contemporaries, having both emerged in the late 70s/early 80s.
Either way, amazing band and song, Killing Joke rule!
Yeah, it's very strange how so many big big bands like NIN, Tool, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Korn all said they've been influenced by KJ. Unyet if you were to mention KJ to any of those bands's fans, they'd probably just stare at you blankly
True, Killing Joke influenced MANY industrial metal bands, but pure industrial was not really affected by KJ. Pure industrial music, I'm talking about Throbbing Gristle, Einsturzende Neubauten, early Clock DVA, early Cabaret Voltaire, early Current 93, Coil, SPK, Whitehouse, early Test Dept--that's real industrial. KJ influenced industrial metal bands and elektro-industrial like NIN, Ministry, KMFDM, etc, but don't confuse the two.