Science Never Sleeps by Skyclad, Album: Irrational Anthems (1996)

Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.

They cover their stupidity by calling it "stupology",
rearrange your world without one word of apology,
Make a man-made-soul so small it fits inside your pocket,
when you die they'll shoot it up to heaven in a rocket.

We've made tommorows world - a Nirvana for the damned.
We've made tommorows world - Mother Earth on Fatherland?
We've made tommorows world - we're the cause and the effect.
We've made tommorows world - could George Orwell be correct?

Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.

Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human amoebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.

Let me show you something hideous,
insidious, creeping and libidinous.
The worst laid plans of men with mice,
wielding scalpels - laboratory sacrifice.

Great for the economy - destroying our ecology.
Unscrupulous, malicious - yet chemically delicious.

Science never sleeps - so I'm singing it a lullabye,
of wolves in sheeps clothing - devils in disguise,
and lab-coats draped over big black lies.

Science never weeps - for the life beneath the microscope.
We are the human amoebae that helplessly float
in a final solution - suspend in hope.

Will we shiver in dark centuries of cryogenic winter,
or be vaporized to ashes when atoms start to splinter?
A case of heads or tails - it's their coin so they can choose,
breed creatures born with two of either so they cannot lose.

We've made tommorows world - a Nirvana for the damned.
We've made tommorows world - Mother Earth on Fatherland?
We've made tommorows world - we're the cause and the effect.
We've made tommorows world - could George Orwell be correct?


A strong criticism to the role of science nowadays, it’s arrogance, it’s methodology of amoralism by the reduction of the phenomenon of life into simple pieces of matter in order to manipulate it, all in the fake vision of “progress”. This methodology, based in wider accepted concepts and certain socio-political contexts of power and control leads to the development of whole disciplines that are completely destructive to nature, health and sustainability. We discussed the forms scientific disciplines take in Sepultura’s song Biotech is Godzilla.

In some verses (We've made tomorrow world - Mother Earth on Fatherland) there is also a reference to the patriarchal context of science development in our societies, that of seeking for social power and control by war and violence, male social values that were imposed somewhere in the far past in societies by displacing matriarchal institutions of peace and equality (female values) (see our views for Nevermore’s Matricide) . Science, under such context produce freaky disciplines of terrible war machines of mass extinction, chemical of biological weapons, ways of “scientific” mental and body control and torture, environmental devastation or pollution for multinational corporations interests and greed.

Another barbaric and totally unscientific method that still holds today is the vivisection. No matter that millions of animals are submitted to untold suffering for useless tests (The worst laid plans of men with mice, wielding scalpels - laboratory sacrifice), no matter the hazards to humans caused by tested drugs in animals (see also our comments to stop the vivisection now by oi polloi.


You can hear some songs from this album in youtube

Inequality street
History Lessons

We read in Encyclopaedia Metallum:Skyclad is a pagan term for ritual nudity, meaning literally that the practitioners are clad only by the sky, due to their highly nature-oriented beliefs.