Album: Game Over by Nuclear Assault 1986

Radiation Sickness

Destruction
Has ruined your world
Flags of death
Have been unleashed
You've survived
And now you will die

Crawl through Hall
That once was your home
Search for help
Through despair that has grown
You've not lond
To live on this earth
You will die
Radiation shall kill

Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die
Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die

Fading fast
Your flesh shall rot
Life of pain
Is all you've got
There's no one left
To bury the dead
People hide
Behind walls of lead

Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die
Shelter deep
Run and hide
There's no help
You will die

Die, slow, death




After The Holocaust

Fires burning cities down
Your whole world's destroyed
Mutants crawl out from the ruins
To put you to the sword
Poisoned air in darkened skies
flows across the land
Fear and pain they breed despair
A new Dark age is at hand

After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust

Peoples lives are ruined
By man they've ever seen
A choice of death made for man
By leaders behind the scenes
The end result of a Nuclear War
That laid waste to us all
Our civilization crumbled down
By nightmares that destroy

After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust

Now the final curtains fall
On the world that you have planned
Most of those who have survived
Will die by their own hand
And now the world lies deathly still
Ruled by these insane
One can only wander now
If they'll make the same mistake

After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust
After the Holocaust



Nuclear War

War has come
To your home
Now it lies destroyed
Nuclear war, the final war
The end of all man's dreams
No one wins
In this game
Both sides have lost
Who has won
When all are dead
Except for the machines

Looking at the future
There's no much to see
Your homeland lies under
Radioctive debris

Millions dead
More on the way
What is worth this cost
For your god
And country
You'd destroy the world
It is madness
To believe
That you can survive
Take my word
You'd rather not
It's better just to die

Looking at the future
There's no much to see
Your homeland lies under
Radioctive debris


Three songs about the results and consequenses of a nuclear war. They focused on the famous slogan "Lucky are those who die quickly". "Game over" forever, leaders must realize that its not virtual computer wargame pushing buttons.

you can hear songs from this album in myspace:

Radiation sickness & Nuclear war

Album: World Circus by Toxik, 1988

Haunted Earth

They are here to take away
The visions of our future
With their words of empty praise, of peace
Politicians butcher
You know your mind is bending
With your stare so blind
You're here to do their bidding, to kill
All that's left behind

We must always live
For our earth
Haunted Earth
We shall never be
The same again
Haunted Earth

Turn your cheek and they will smite you
At their lords command
From the book of forgotten prophets, you sin
Sinners will be damned
Machines of death will reap the slayer's harvest
The body count is high

Ten thousand souls are lost forever, in Hell
Where no one dies

The dogs of war are howling at you
Can't you see the signs?
The art of war is an ancient syndrome, of death
For all mankind
They raise the curtain of the act violence
They take their final bow
Twisting bows of propaganda, they speak
As if they're proud
PROUD!


All the album is about the cold war era and the nuclear threat between the two powers (USA vs USSR). This song makes hints about our dependence from our planet.


World Circus

USSR and United States represent all
Biggest nation, main attraction
The people holding the bail
Some small sweaty country
Is where the first acts will all die
Out of the air into despair
That's how the circus survives

Oh, but we could save us all
Forget their religion and think for yourselves
Once, and for all, before the...

World Circus/World Circus

Lights, Flashing
Ash, fills the air
Open, the sky is bleeding
Circus, is everywhere

Breathe in the air of disgust
And it will make you gag
Chemicals, they're filling the air

Money in some fat man's bag the illness that infects your immunes
And leaves you quite dead
Who'd believe, who'd have conceived
Our book was already read

Oh, but God can save us all
And if you believe you're a fool, and surely
Will fall, to the...

World Circus/World Circus

In the center ring


Their most representative song about the USA/USSR conflict. A metaphor of the cold war, the nuclear armament and the threat of a nuclear holocaust as a fatal performance in a circus which is attended by pathetic inactive spectators. Today we still be inactive TV spectators of the circus performances all over the world ("spectacular" invisible planes, clever bombs, any kind of military high technology) by the surviving power and its endless wars for "human rights", "world peace" and "against terrorism" in Irak, Palestine, Kosovo, Afganistan, etc, spreading depleted uranium instead of heavy nuclear weapons.

You can hear World Circus in youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvf-BPvZ2kM

and among others in myspace

Album: American way by Sacred Reich (1990)

Crimes Against Humanity

Toxins, pollutants and poisonous gasses
without notice take their toll on the masses
air becomes thicker than the water we drink
people unaware of the spread of disease

smoke fills the sky and the sun disappears
rain from above is like acid filled tears
the fragile balance of sky and earth has been altered
forever harmony disturbed

Towering temples of modernization
megatropolis monument to civilization
pollution and waste is direct indication
to the growing problem of the world's situation

smoke fills the sky the sun disappears
rain from above is like acid filled tears
the fragile balance of sky and earth has been altered
forever harmony disturbed

What will it take to make us see
these are crimes against humanity
not only you, not only me but even our future society
these are crimes against humanity

Pain and suffering are what can be found
violence and hatred are what abound
building the weapons that we can't use
can't we see they have only one use

we need more compassion not more war planes
are we so blind uncaring insane
brought into this world with nothing
and with nothing we're destined to depart

What will it take to make us see
these are crimes against humanity
not only you, not only me but even our future society
these are crimes against humanity

Crimes against humanity


A great song that classifies the problems of devastating development, pollution and destruction of the environment and nuclear armament as crimes against humanity. Indeed. It's a war crime against nature and consequently against humanity because we both (ecosystems and humans) suffer.



The American Way

Truth and honor faith and pride
all convictions surely died
honesties time has passed
time for lies is here at last
truth is false I'm so fed up
how did we come to be so fucked
hate fear pain death
all our country has got left

Talk to children hear them say
daddy left again today
brother steals and mommy lies
future lost before their eyes
the sun was lost behind the clouds
they rapped it up and blacked it out
acid rain fell today
it came and washed our hopes away

This was once the land of dreams
now these dreams have turned to greed
in the midst of all this wealth
the poor are left to help themselves

a capitalist's democracy
no one said that freedom's free lady
liberty rots away no truth,
no justice the American way

Don't look past your t.v.
all of us are what you see
a looking glass into our lives
what we watch is what we buy
priorities are out of whack
who is next to stab our back
doesn't it make you mad
to have lost all that we've had

This was once the land of dreams
now these dreams have turned to greed
in the midst of all this wealth
the poor are left to help themselves

a capitalist's democracy
no one said that freedom's free lady
liberty rots away no truth,
no justice the American way

Doesn't it fill you with disgust
that there's no one left to trust
is this happening is this real
my body numb I cannot feel
are you happy are you sad
are emotions a thing of the past
I have no tears I cannot cry
no one mourns for a world that's died

This was once the land of dreams
now these dreams have turned to greed
in the midst of all this wealth
the poor are left to help themselves

a capitalist's democracy
no one said that freedom's free lady
liberty rots away no truth,
no justice the American way



A song that reveals the falsification of American dream: The king is nude, and hypocrisy prevails, plastic human relations, consumerism, social injustice, corruption, fake democracy and pollution are the main traits of american society.

You can hear these songs among others in myspace

Watchtower 1989, 1985

Album: Control and Resistance, 1989

Mayday In Kiev


"The unleashed power of the atom changed everything
save our mode of thinking, and we thus drift toward
unparalleled catastrophes." [- Albert Einstein]

In a nation for a dangerous penchant for secrecy
A dread disaster at Chernobyl was concealed

As a poisoning cloud spread over the Eastern Bloc
Alarming information was reluctantly revealed
An explosion in Reactor Four - a fire refusing to cease

No containment walls preventing radioactive release
Evidence that peaceful technology had gone awry
More catastrophically than Windscale or TMI

Alert - Celebration in Kiev
Under glowing skies - Soviet lies
Alert - In nearby Poland
A shower of radiation
Children iodized
Mayday - A day of rejoice
A cry of distress

Severe political fallout - toxic exchange of words
Soviet obscurantism under verbal attack
Abroad, outraged countries appeal for information

Met with grudging riposte, hesitant placation
At home, TASS reports no danger - nothing to fear
As deadly elemental isotopes spew into the biosphere

"The unleashed power of the atom..." - A warning from the past
The benefits of technology are reversed by careless human error
Science, once a saviour, now an effective destroyer
We must apply our knowledge with care

Entombed in concrete, Chernobyl will forever remain
A monument to the chilling effects of negligence


Another song about Chernobyl disaster which describes the events, the human factor, the misinformation, the use of scientific knowledge



Album: Energetic disassembly, 1985

Meltdown

Theres an air of urgency, the wail of sirens pierces the night
The damage has already been done, irreversible accidents, security's tight
This is not a drill, it's a drastic tragedy to cope with
Time is the worst enemy, to those who play with the fate of man

Breakdown, warning - Nuclear nightmare, reality
Breakdown, warning - Contaminates society
Breakdown, warning - Radioactive atmosphere
Breakdown, warning - Mistakes are now becoming clear

Meltdown - Becomes a word of panic
Meltdown - Radiation burns the skin
Meltdown - The public has yet to be informed
Meltdown - Invisible killer closing in...

Breakdown, warning - Nuclear nightmare, reality
Breakdown, warning - Contaminates society
Breakdown, warning - Radioactive atmosphere
Breakdown, warning - Mistakes are now becoming clear

Geiger counters crackle in a frenzy, useless meters to prove our danger
An enemy that man created, how ironic that he cannot fight
Technology beyond control, build up of waste, no safe disposal

Breakdown, warning - Nuclear nightmare, reality
Breakdown, warning - Contaminates society
Breakdown, warning - Radioactive atmosphere
Breakdown, warning - Mistakes are now becoming clear to us!


Another song about the consequences by a nuclear meltdown.



Violent Change

Oceans push forward - Oceans recede
Continually altering the masses of land
Continents shift with massive force
And spread chaos among our crumbling cities

In retaliation we reap the land clean
Of it's wealth and resource
Only to mask it with oceans of concrete
A better environment?

This world we inhabit is in constant motion
Natural changes on a grand scale
While we live our lives and petty matters
Of human interaction and social stupidity

Violent change

Blasting away the dust of this earth
Are the winds of majestic power
Smashing our dwellings with no regret
Unpredictable and merciless

Scarring the ground with our machines of steel
Our extensions - our weapons
The cycle is complete
The battle is constantly fought

Violent change
Violent change


A song about the power of nature that is used to be ignored by men who feel superior and safe under their technology. But nature may react extremely violently, especially if some limits are surpassed.

You can hear some of the above songs among others in myspace

Album: New York by Lou Reed, 1989

Two great poetic and not-only-sheer environmental songs from this album:


Last Great American Whale

They say he didn't have an enemy
his was a greatness to behold

He was the last surviving progeny
the last one on this side of the world

He measured a half mile from tip to tail
silver and black with powerful fins
They say he could split a mountain in two
that's how we got the Grand Canyon

Last great American whale
last great American whale
Last great American whale
last great American whale

Some say they saw him at the Great Lakes
some say they saw him off of Florida
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown
but you can't always trust your mother

Off the Carolinas the sun shines brightly in the day
the lighthouse glows ghostly there at night
The chief of a local tribe had killed a racist mayor's son
and he'd been on death row since 1958

The mayor's kid was a rowdy pig
spit on Indians and lots worse
The old chief buried a hatchet in his head
life compared to death for him seemed worse

The tribal brothers gathered in the lighthouse to sing
and tried to conjure up a storm or rain
The harbor parted, the great whale sprang full up
and caused a huge tidal wave

The wave crushed the jail and freed the chief
the tribe let out a roar
The whites were drowned, the browns and reds set free
but sadly one thing more

Some local yokel member of the NRA
kept a bazooka in his living room
And thinking he had the chief in his sight
blew the whale's brains out with a lead harpoon

Last great American whale
last great American whale
Last great American whale
last great American whale

Well Americans don't care for much of anything
land and water the least
And animal life is low on the totem pole
with human life not worth more than infected yeast

Americans don't care too much for beauty
they'll shit in a river, dump battery acid in a stream
They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach
and complain if they can't swim

They say things are done for the majority
don't believe half of what you see and none of what you hear
It's like what my painter friend Donald said to me
"Stick a fork in their ass and turn them over, they're done"


Sick Of You

I was up in the morning with the TV blarin'
brush my teeth sittin' watchin' the news
All the beaches were closed the ocean was a Red Sea
but there was no one there to part in two
There was no fresh salad because there's hypos in the cabbage
Staten Island disappeared at noon
And they say the midwest is in great distress
and NASA blew up the moon

The ozone layer has no ozone anymore
and you're gonna leave me for the guy next door
I'm Sick of You, I'm Sick of You

They arrested the Mayor for an illegal favor
sold the Empire State to Japan
And Oliver North married William Secord
and gave birth to a little Teheran
And the Ayatollah bought a nuclear warship
if he dies he wants to go out in style
And there's nothing to eat that don't carry the stink
of some human waste dumped in the Nile

We one thing is certainly true
no one here knows what to do
I'm Sick of You, I'm Sick of You

The radio said there were 400 dead
in some small town in Arkansas
Some whacked out trucker drove into a nuclear reactor
and killed everybody he saw
Now he's on Morton Downey and he's glowing and shining
doctors say this is a medical advance
They say the bad makes the good and there's something to be learned
in every human experience

Well I know one thing that really is true
This here's a zoo and the keeper ain't you
And I'm sick of it, I'm Sick of You

They ordained the Trumps and then he got the mumps
and died being treated at Mt. Sinal
And my best friend Bill died from a poison pill
some wired doctor prescribed for stress
My arms and legs are shrunk the food all has lumps
They discovered some animal no one's ever seen
It was an inside trader eating a rubber tire
after running over Rudy Giuliani

They say the President's dead but no one can find his head
It's been missing now for weeks
But no one noticed it he had seemed so fit
and I'm Sick of it

I'm Sick of You, I'm so Sick of You, bye, bye, bye
bye, bye, bye

We read in MIT’s newspaper “Tech” an article by Andrew Fish about this album and especially about these environmental songs (see text in bold below).

Lou Reed's New York is a depressing place, filled with poverty, bigotry, crime, drugs, and pollution. His most political album is like a musical Bonfire of the Vanities, examining people who live in the shadow of what Reed calls "the Statue of Bigotry."
…

Many of Reed's songs discuss the plight of the city's vast underclass, living in a world wrecked by the drug trade, racism, and broken homes. In "Romeo Had Juliet," Reed sings about a young man who has a girlfriend (of sorts), and little else in a cynical world filled with gun-toting crack dealers, who also populate his "Dirty Boulevard." Reed sees a world which dumps the downtrodden into ghettos and and abandons them. The poor in New York are trapped by the lure of the drug trade, the lack of parental guidance ("it's hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighs"), and a city which just doesn't care.

"There's no such thing as human rights when you walk the New York streets," Reed declares. He sings about the casualties of the drug trade, but seems to feel there is no way to turn things around. This fatalism is prevalent throughout the album, tempered only by his look to the future in "There is No Time." Even when Reed sings of needing a "Busload of Faith," it is only because "you can depend on the worst always happening."

The best track on New York does not concern itself with the poor, but rather with a clever combination of racism, gun control, and environmental concerns. "Last Great American Whale" is a ballad about a mythical creature who came to the rescue of an Indian chief, who was jailed for killing a racist youth. The whale saves the chief and stops the racism ("the whites were drowned, blacks and reds set free"). But the great animal was then killed by a NRA member, who had been aiming for the chief. This is taken as a symbol of Americans lack of concern for the environment (They'll watch dead rats wash up on the beach and complain if they can't swim"). "Last Great American Whale" definitely contains Reed's most creative lyrics, and it provides an excellent bridge between the problems of the city and the country as a whole.

New York is not without humor. In "Sick of You," pollution makes the ocean a red sea, but there is no one to part it. The song moves on to talk about hypodermic needles in cabbage, the marriage of Oliver North and William Secord, and a radioactive trucker appearing on the Morton Downey Jr. Show. This song offers a more lighthearted look at the problems of pollution and corruption; it complements the album's more serious lyrics.

Reed also takes time to attack the Pope for his meeting with Austrian President Kurt Waldheim and Jesse Jackson for perceived anti-Semitism. He includes a song critical of the Vietnam War, and a tribute to those who have died of AIDS. But Reed also slams "self-righteous rock and roller singers" in "Straw Man." This is not hypocrisy. While New York does call attention to the multitude of problems facing society, is does not pretend to know the solutions.

you can hear sick of you in you tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5te9f88LYuU

Album: Handle with care by Nuclear Assault, 1989

This album is dedicated to planet Earth. It calls us to be aware of its fragility so handle it with care.


Critical Mass

The bio-sphere, the place we live
It seems like we don't give a damn
Other species flushed down the tubes
We need another race to rape

The way we live we will destroy
Every other living thing
'Til none are left except our race
And then we will destroy ourselves

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies
Bring on the acid rain

Slightly insane, the type of greed
That makes a world unfir for life
Toxic wastes destroy the seas
While poison gas pollutes the air

A waste of life, while no one cares
The earth becomes a giant tomb
Critical mass will be achieved
And ruins will be all that's left

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies

A Hell on Earth, what we create
Dragging life to death with us
All living things destroyed or used
By shortsighted human beeings

We do these things, let them be done
Apathy creates despair
The damage done will be too great
The world wounded beyond repair

Another oil spill
Atomic waste displaced
Another forest dies


Inherited Hell

A time in the future, not too far away
The death of our world, we are told
Destroyed by neglect, now breeding despair
The home of mankind is despoiled

Polluted oceans, unbreathable air
The life of the land under siege
Cancer is spreading and wasting the world
And mankind is now the disease

Look upon the world you knew
And say goodbye, it dies with you
Those who live when we are dead
Will curse our names, they 've inherited Hell

The forests are gone and the ocean destroyed
The world we once knew now is dead
The animals slaughtered, wild life in its grave
The sun burns too bright overhead

Cities collapsing and famine runs rampant
A nightmare where once there was life
Radiation and toxins a part of the children
Who will hate us until they die

We never stopped to think or reflect
On what we have done to the world
The heritage we live our children is Hell
A short life in pain what we mold

We 've squandered resources and wasted the land
And left little for those to come
They will have nothing to claim for their own
Except for the Hell we have shown


Two songs about environmental destruction and their impacts to ecosystems and health in many details. It’s significant that the song “Critical Mass” talks about the possibility to exceed biosphere’s capacity to self-regulate our driven by greed polluting and destructive activities. The song “Inherited Hell” calls us to respect our children’s uncertain future, because they are doomed to live in a highly polluted and devastating environment. It recalls us the famous slogan: This planet is not ours. We borrowed it from the future generations”


Surgery

Wires drilled into my head
Tubes inserted in my neck
Toxins pumped into my veins
This treatments inhumane

Strapped to a table head and foot
Eyes blindfolded, I can't look
My life is all I've left to choose
As your scalpel makes its move

What have I done to deserve this?
Give up your cruel practices
When this nightmare runs it's course
You throw away my useless corpse


A song about the conventional medicine and its cruel and toxic methods to utilize than really cure illnesses (either mental or somatic) that our modern way of life (pollution, nutrition, work) produces. As we say in another similar song by Voivod (Ravenous medicine) alternative medicine is friendly and holistic, taking into account not only external intruders as cause of the disease, but also personality, relations, working conditions, pollution, etc. Disease is an inner imbalance caused by many factors and is treated in a way to restore this balance.


When Freedom Dies

United in a time, a time of need
Against a common foe, the enemy
The years of death endured, the years of pain
Against an evil force, a force not sane

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

And then the world endured, a victory won
Against an insane man and his cohorts
But once the war was done, blind fear prevailed
And years of darkness came, freedom was nailed

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

We let our freedom die, we let it wane
We feared an enemy's atomic rain
But what was on our minds, what we became
We and the enemy
We are the same

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security

We become the enemy
When freedom dies for security


A very prophetic song about the well known policy of authorities to invoke the sense of security in order to restrict our freedom and human rights. We can see today this fact in the so-called war against terrorism which is in fact a war against people who resist in the socially and environmentally devastating policy of an uncontrolled economical system led only by greed. We become the enemy when freedom dies for security. We are the real enemy for the system, so we must be controlled and be recorded according to our biometric characteristics, according to our social behaviour, etc not only by local police but by Interpol, FBI, etc and these data can be transferred where is necessary (e.g. the place for G8 conference in order to prevent demonstrations)

You can hear some songs from this album in youtube:

Critical mass

When freedom dies

and Inherited Hell in myspace

The Whaler's Dues by Jethro Tull, Album: Rock island 1989

Money speaks. Soft hearts lose. The truth only whispers.
It's the whaler's dues.

I've been running on diesel. Been running on coal.
Running on borrowed time, if truth's to be told.
Two whales in the ocean, cruising the night
search for each other before we turn out their light.

Been accused of deep murder on the North Atlantic swell
but I have three hungry children and a young wife as well.
And behind stand generations of hard hunting men
who raised a glass to the living, and went killing again.
Are you with me?

Money speaks, soft hearts lose. The truth only whispers.
Now pay the whaler's dues.
Can you forgive me?

Now I'm old and I sit land-locked in a back-country jail
to reflect on all of my sins and the death of the whale.
Send me back down the ages. Put me to sea once again
when the oceans were full --- yes, and men would be men.
Can you forgive me?

A song about whale hunting which gives some points to the breadwinner whaler, not those of nowadays entrepreneurs who kill for profit and greed, but recalling to a past where seas were full of fish and whales and people hunt for surviving and have a morality of respect towards the hunted animal.

You can hear some Jethro Tull classics in youtube:

Aqualung

Thick as a brick

Heavy Horses

Sacred Reich 1987, 1988

Ignorance, Album: Ignorance, 1987

Evil minds bend on destruction
Ignoring the pleas of their race
The final chapter in humanic abduction
All signs of society erased
People asking fewer questions
Letting politicians do their thinking
Not questioning nuclear judgement
As warheads enter our space

Our atmosphere clouded with poison
We're killing ourselves to live
Filling the world with hate and dissention
We'll have only our lives to give
What we do now is the key to the future
We'll only have ourselves to blame
For arming the world with the tools of destruction
Our ignorance means death

Warring on opposite nations
Starvation amongst impoverished nations
Outlook bleak for the world residue
Ignorance of mankind
Clouding the world with residue
Of man's toxic industry
Slowly killing nameless victims
Whose ignorance leaves them dead

Our atmosphere clouded with poison
We're killing ourselves to live
Filling the world with hate and dissention
We'll have only our lives to give
What we do now is the key to the future
We'll only have ourselves to blame
For arming the world with the tools of destruction
Our ignorance means death

We're crowded with anger inventions of danger
From man's diabolical mind
Humanities dying no use in trying
It's only a matter of time
How long will it be before there's no air to breathe
And our water is polluted water
Ignorance runs rampant noone is caring
Suicide of the human race

Ignorance

A similar song with that of Ramones we have already presented: a more detailed accusation about the ignorance of people focusing mainly on environmental issues and health hazards.


One Nation, EP: Surf Nicaragua, 1988

A vision of unselfishness, a union of black and white
One nation of all races, it's clear within my sight
I see it clear, no hate, no fear, no soldiers sent to die
A state that's free and thrives on peace, no greed, no threat to life

We won't build the weapons of war which looms over your heads
We'll not feed the war machines that lead our youth to death
We won't close our eyes to the atrocities which abound

We won't stand and watch until we're six feet underground

The future is our burden, we can't stand and watch
As the world around crumbles, opposing armies march
We work towards our goal: one nation - unity
And you must be the convert who works towards world peace

Muthafuckers around us who stand and say no way
Opposing lessened armies, they say are here to stay
But no one knows until we try, what we all can do
I won't watch children die, it's up to me and you

Our world is divided, the boundaries have been drawn
Ideas are decided by where you have been born
You can't judge people by the government of their land
They're flesh and blood like us - why don't you understand?

The future is our burden, we can't stand and watch
As the world around crumbles, opposing armies march
We work towards our goal: one nation - unity
And you must be the convert who works towards world peace

A song that calls for stopping war conflicts, for abolishing the borders and for realising that all people, no matter race, religion, nationality are brothers: one humanity, one nation

You can hear these songs in you tube:

Ignorance

One Nation+Ignorance live

Ignorance Is Bliss by Ramones, Album: Brain Drain, 1989

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you

Is it goin' anywhere?

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah

What's happening to our society?
Disintegration of humanity
Destruction of the environment
(Cram that cop donation in your ass)

Is it goin' anywhere?

??
Politicians (to confuse you)
What's good for them, now it ain't good for you
But there ain't nothing that you can do

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you
Hey!

Ignorance is bliss, ya know it's true
Ignorance is bliss, just look at you

I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive, yeah


Ramones tell us in this song that in a world that produces war, pollution and misery, only if you are ignorant of the real causes (and a-political person) you can be blissful and happy. But that’s the way the system tries to keep us in ignorance and confusion through Mass Media fake plastic world, spectacles, athletics and false statements and ideologies (ethnic, religious, etc).

You can hear this song in youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u1ecNECz1M

Album: Annihilation of Civilization by Evildead, 1989

Annihilation of Civilization

Christian mind control, brainwashing innocent souls,
Teaching their own twisted fears,
Baptism is final, confirming denial, of the reality
We must deal with today,
No one on this Earth can save us from this hell,
We're only destroying ourselves,
Religion gets its way, so God has his say,
And the Holy propaganda is free...

He WHO IS! WHO IS! and is coming
He shall put an end to your fear,
On Earth, THE LIVING! THE DYING!
Attain the destiny they've awaited for years.
The death plague wreaks havoc on Earth,
A life put to death before birth,
Deserts grow where Cities once thrived,
No one on this Earth left alive...
The Rain that falls from the sky, turning toxic,
The atmosphere is melting away,
Disposing of nuclear waste in the sea,
Children dying of starvation in the streets,
APOCALYPSE....REVELATIONS...
HUMAN RACE...ENDANGERED KIND...
He WHO IS! WHO WAS! not a saviour
No one can control this disease
MESSIAH, BEHOLD! THE CHOSEN!
Welcome to the world of the dead!!!

SPECULATION! not needed the answer is here
ANNIHILATION! Countries put to death by their fears
CIVILIZED NATION! this is what we create
TERMINATION! designed to Annihilate

We're killing ourselves, there's no need for help
From Satan, of from God, or the tomb,
The acid pollution, there is no solution
The greenhouse effect taking place.
And wars will arise, the beast in disguise
Necronomicon prophecies apply,
An one civilized nation, now God's abomination
Annihilating the entire Human race.

Hypocritical factions deny, as the truth stares them right in the eye,
The powers we once fought to possess, destroy us in the final test...
THE LORD WHO HAS GIVEN HAS NOW ALSO TAKEN AWAY!!!


An interesting song that calls us to be free from religious beliefs that blind us and to realize that the major problem today was not about life after death, but about our existence in a polluted and toxic environment.

Future Shock

Fighting for what cause? To them it's unknown
The sixties brought peace and love, with homage to Vietnam
The seventies was Watergate, three-mile island the tragic fate
The eighties we build our A.R.M.S., public scandals in Iran
The nineties you can be assured, bombshelters for the weak and strong.

Another bomb bang, another hijack,
We'll never get our hostages back, brutal murders 'til the end
Atomic safety, non-existant, Chernobyl's burning,
We won't miss it...radioactivity in their brains
Dumping toxics in the sea, Governmental hierarchy,
Killing creatures, extinct breed...
No emotions we must face, rise of the synthetic race
Building empires - demonic power...

The social class claims Democratic, slowly fading to phlegmatic
Computers rule, now we panic...
Prepared for battle, been sold for slaughter,
Say goodbye to Son and Daughter, The Future; a dying matter...
Want to live?
The choice not yours,

You've become prisoners of war, Apocalypse is now at hand...
Inflicting torture unjust to Man, merciless killings,
Throughout the Land, the holocaust - alive again...
A CALL TO ARMS
WON'T HAPPEN HERE
WITH AFGANISTAN
AND LYBIA
nuke'em all, make'em glow!

The whore of the beast, ten horns from the East,
Hail from the skies, cracking the Earth,
The walls of the Cities, crumble to dust,
The nations witness the final blast,
Prophets of rage, in the last age,
Maybe we'll learn from Human remains...

The politicians' dug our grave, for mocking war our lives we gave,
The time has passed to make some peace, the guilty minds now ruled by beasts',
The World we know, does not exist, no sign of life, THE FUTURE SHOCK
In Armageddon none survive, the Human race can't be revived.


Another song that expresses great anxiety about the continuous wars of those states that have the power through the decades and about the destruction of environment.

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Annihilation of civilization

FCI/The Awakening/Paracide