Let The Truth Sting
(专辑: A Century Ends - 1993)
The
hour is out of joint Black sun has risen And the
river of words Is flowing on through The
cages of tradition They're handing out emptiness We'll take it, cos it's given Free with this plastic innocence And these standards of living Questions, lighted questions Burning holes into my head Hanging like shadows o'er the
sun Staring out like the
eyes of the
dead And sometimes my soul flickers As the
wind of change blows cold Over the
mire of repetition Down the
corridors of rigmarole What I
say, what I
think What I
put down in ink I'm only trying to find a
way to understand And I
mean no harm I'm just searching for calm In the
storm of mankind Do you find it there In the
sea of faces That drowns you every day Or in the
silence and rubble and empty spaces Where children and rottweilers play Is it buried in the
praise Given so cheap With a
meaningless movement of the
jaws In the
looking glass That flatters you Or in the
rattle of hollow applause Blind circle, moon and sun Body willing, mind undone One pain ending while another begins Lies, ruin, disease Into wounds like these Let the
truth sting From the
hub to the
limit Through the
urban hollows Out into the
poles of the
extreme To echo through the
numbness Of these godless minutes In the
shadow of delusion's regime But here watching the
night As it opens like a
flower And the
day starts to rust Feeling time pound Like a
silent hammer On this empire of dust And I'm thinking about the
bullet And the
TV screen, the
dollar, and the
clenched fist And if we're searching for peace How come we still believe In hatred as the
catalyst Through the
borderline In front and behind Down the
road of thorns Between the
barbwire and the
soul Bitters and chains Is all that remains Where the
wheel has rolled I
feel it from the
pit of my stomach Into the
ditch of my mind Inside the
chambers of my heart As I
stare half blind At these walls of cardboard At this space that I've rented At your beauty that is crumbling Though you try so hard to prevent it On and on Body willing, mind undone One pain ending while another begins Lies, ruin, disease Into wounds like these Let the
truth sting Let the
truth sting Let the
truth sting