Ministry

sorry about the messiness of this file, but it would have taken forever to organise it. all the albums are layed out in order. thanks -- afra -- http://www.prongs.org/ministry ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------with sympathy -------

album name: with sympathy produced by: ian taylor & vince ely release date: 1983 record label: arista - arcd 8016 1. effigy (i'm not an) 2. revenge 3. i wanted to tell her 4. work for love 5. here we go 6. what he say 7. say you're sorry 8. should've known better 9. she's got a cause

----------------------------------------------------------------------effigy (i'm not an) you are the only person i know but i take you round to people who are on the go well you took me to a picture show and what's the first thing i see but them burning pictures of my head to toe, hey! i'm not an effigy, no, no! i asked you if you would be mad if i packed my things and moved away to faraway land well i packed my things and i moved to this place and what's the first thing i see but them burning pictures of me in my face, hey! i'm not an effigy, no, no! well i moved back from this faraway land walked right into a room with me mum and me dad well i saw my picture hanging on the wall they tried to rip it and burn it but it just withstood it all and i said hey! i'm not an effigy i'm not angry i'm not an effigy... hey!

well walking around this stinking town i look up at the buildings and they get me down well i look to my left and then i look to my right and then i realize they've been striking at me since the middle of last night, hey! i'm not an effigy revenge pushed me off the dirty floor you watched as my head hit the floor you watched as i rolled round and round you watched as i came tumbling down you watched as i rolled down the stairs you never wished me - fare thee well! you watched as i got on my feet i ran towards her and she started to plead, no! ain't got time for what you feel you did it again you did it again you did it again and again and again, ho, ho! far below original sin far below the state i'm in far below malicious crimes far below her for the time far below far below far below is the place you'll go, ho! ain't got time for what you feel you did it again you did it again you did it again and again and again, ho, ho! oh went through the window, quiet as a mouse no sound was stirring throughout the house i'd heard a noise that made me startle but i kept on walking down the corridor yes the corridor yes the corridor and there you were with a man once more, no! ain't got time for what you feel you did it again you did it again you did it again and again and again you did it again you did it again you did it again and again and again, ho, ho! i wanted to tell her i wanted to tell her but i stuck to my lies i wanted to tell her till i looked in her eyes

i wanted to tell her but i stuck to my lies i wanted to tell her till i looked in her eyes i wanted to tell her i needed to tell her just like the wind you blew away your happy lover's touch you bring the blues into my heart just like a rush i cannot bear the way my heart has helped to keep you close of you my babe i cannot get enough you touch me baby i loved you to the lines of lies you told when i asked her name i knew the perfume in your hair just wasn't mine did you ever think to notice me when you wasn't home? i noticed every time i wanted to tell her but i wanted to tell her till i wanted to tell her but i wanted to tell her till

i i i i

stuck to my lies looked in her eyes stuck to my lies looked in her eyes

thought you noticed every time but you didn't notice a thing i'd have to cover up my calls when the telephone would ring i'm tired of you and the things you do and all the things you say no more babysitting for neurotic girls today i'm thinking that the pain i'm going through just to keep you babe is something that i should bear did you ever stop to notice me when you had nothing? and i never cared? just like the wind you blew away your happy lover's touch you bring the blues into my life just like a rush i cannot bear the way my heart has helped to keep you close of you my babe i cannot get enough you touch me baby, don't be mean to me! i wanted to tell her but i stuck to my lies i wanted to tell her till i looked in her eyes i wanted to tell her but i stuck to my lies i wanted to tell her till i looked in her eyes i wanted to tell her but i stuck to my lies i wanted to tell her till i looked in her eyes i wanted to tell her i needed to tell her work for love hey! you said you needed full time help cos you're all alone i said i'd work for nothing at all if i just could take you home and now you're taking applications for your love you wanted certain specifications i circled the one that said all the above work... for love

finally got my resume and you said you'd reviewed it some other day i said, 'girl, hey, do it if you dare where i'd like to go our love will flare' finally my letter arrived and i knew you would be mine instead i had to prove my turf for the first two weeks work overtime work... for love you've got to work you've got to work for love (had enough, had enough?) here we go this one's fought the trendy set this one's fought the feds this one's fought the people baby and tried to ruin my plans this one's fought the radio this one's fought the press this one's fought the people baby and made my life such a mess woah... here we go (we gotta go, we gottta go) this one's fought the little girls this one's fought the boys this one's fought the people baby and told me all their lies woah... here we go (we gotta go, we gottta go) i will press the button and they will go away but don't forget to say your prayers before i blow them all away, i say woah... here we go (we gotta go, we gottta go) woah... here we go (we gotta go!) what he say i've seen many countries argue about human lives but one thing that stays the same is the clubs are always full at night pick out any far-out place like kenya or swaziland doesn't matter what the place they'll still be dancing to the band (mumble mumble jumble) (garble warble farble)

(mumble (garble (mumble mumble (garble (mumble mumble (garble warble

mumble jumble) warble farble) jumble) what he say? warble farble) jumble) what he say? farble) let's dance!

say you've found a homeland? (move to it, move to it) say you've found a clubland? (get to it, get to it) now you've got a song? (groove to it, groove to it) got to find a partner (just get to it, get to it) (mumble (garble (mumble (garble (mumble mumble (garble (mumble mumble (garble warble

mumble jumble) warble farble) mumble jumble) warble farble) jumble) what he say? warble farble) jumble) what he say? farble) let's dance!

let's dance! i've seen many a race of people argue many things before but there is one language that gets you understood for sure not a language of the mouth it's only for the feet grab a russian by the hands and he will feel the need that's right! (mumble (garble (mumble (garble (mumble mumble (garble (mumble mumble (garble warble

mumble jumble) warble farble) mumble jumble) warble farble) jumble) what he say? warble farble) jumble) what he say? farble) let's dance!

let's dance! say you're sorry haven't you ever felt this way before? (with a perfect stranger?) the look on her face, it just gives her away, she can't take any more hoist up your white flag, call for a truce try separation, we both stand to lose she looks in your eyes as we say our goodbyes and she says say you're sorry say you're sorry (tell me, tell me) say you're sorry (right from the heart) say you're sorry say you're sorry think of the times when we couldn't wait to get home

(from the arms of danger) funniest part was the danger was right in our being home you hoist up your white flag, you seem so amused living in riddles without giving clues looks in your eyes as you say your goodbytes and she says say you're sorry say you're sorry (tell me, tell me) say you're sorry (right from the heart) say you're sorry say you're sorry we've had our problems and we've had our fights i was the wrong one and you were the right no more fighting, it ends tonight it's your turn to say you're sorry say you're sorry say you're sorry (say you're sorry) should have known better so many years i just suffered through the tears knowing one day i'd wake up wishing i had never met her but as the time goes by my hope keeping playing every day as i laugh to myself, 'i just should have known better' there's no more laughter as i think about the other girl it's a slap in my face as i'm opening her letter she's doing fine now with two kids and another man as i cry out loud, 'i just should have known better' she was the reason i was living every day i would ride upon a white horse in my quest to try and find her but now it's too late, i don't care if i die tonight cos a voice keeps ringing in my heart, 'i should have known better' i learned my lesson this time lonliness and a broken heart should've known right from the start she's got a cause she was all alone she looked round and around forever searching incessant drudgery but she had that someone wrapped up in a box sticking pins and needles through the tiny cracks she had someone she owned and it's hard to confess i was that someone and she could care less she's got (she's got) a cause (she thinks she has) a cause okay...

least i have my address in her stranglehold lived my life around her and i lived my life as i was told had me coming and going and coming and going like a toy turned me from a man into a sniveling little boy she's got (she's got) a cause (she thinks she has) ----------------------------------------------------------------------twitch ------album name: twitch produced by: adrian sherwood release date: 1886 record label: sire/warner bros. - 25309-2 1. just like you 2. we believe 3. all day 4. the angel 5. over the shoulder 6. my possession 7. isle of man -----------------------------------------------------------------------just like you standing on corners and begging for quarters for what? for you! (and you) busting my head cos that's what you said for all of us -- fuck you! just like you! people are happy when they're not so trapped by someone just like you! (and you) many more years of nothing but fear of anything you do! 1980's was run by a person who's crazy -- like you! (and you) the 1990's will be unkindly, exactly like you! (and you) just like you! (and you) you! when one dictator is the same as the leader -- just like you! (and you) we work, we survive just like you! (and you) we work, we twitch

you! (and you) just like you! we believe standing round the table spinning fables and signing autographs can't you hear them laugh ha ha ha ha ha in their secrecies they plan their strategies it's called hypocrisy and we believe mornings they tell me everything that i need to know or i care to know well i can visualize the look in your eyes the horror as the plane goes down and the siren sounds we can't believe we can't believe in the east where the bear is dancing in the west where the eagle flies in the middle we stand our ground the forces pull us down down down tensions on both sides we're paralyzed and victimized we're terrified and petrified demoralized and mortified of genocide and suicide and patricide and cyanide we're pacified by every side force-fed pride and then we die for them we die for them in the east where the bear is dancing in the west where the eagle flies in the middle we stand our ground the forces pull us down down down we believe all day well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun and i keep on working till the work is all done but a voice in my head keeps ticking away as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day well he works hard and he lives hard and he breaks his back without nothing to gain while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne all day (you work and you work and you work and)

in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand is that what it takes to make you understand? that it's something you read, not something you meant to be slaving away without a shred of integrity he worked hard and he lived hard and he broke his back without nothing to say while the man in control was just laughing away all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision was it something you read? was it something you meant? was it something you said? or was it heaven sent? all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision the angel now is an angel there? now is an angel there? now is an angel there? one left out when they passed heaven about what about me sitting here in my purgatory so left out he's dead i'm alive he's spared always an angel who cares always an angel there one like me we try so hard five like you someone dead again where's your angel now? where's your angel now? where's your morals now? where's your morals? always an angel there where's your angel now? always an angel who cares always an angel there where's your morals? there's always an angel who cares there's always an angel there

no more people staring no more fatal dares like a baby grabbing at something that isn't there but it is but it is always an angel there always an angel who cares always an angel there always an angel who cares over the shoulder big size, small size any size, round and round we need, we take burn it all to the ground started over and learned to walk we teach you how to talk please try and understand we're helping all mankind we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we are serious o, serious dollar here, dollar there dollars flying everywhere we're only here to please stop the killing, trust me we'll only be a while big while, big big smile we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we have in our hands every woman and every man things are gonna go far down a real big fast car and what you see is what you get keep 'em hungry, you bet you need security to keep you from the enemy we use them a while then it's over the shoulder we use them a while then it's over the shoulder my possession hanging and banging and cussing and bitching and scratching and twitching at my demand grabbing and poking and bruising and choking i'm sprinkled i'm tinkled i'm losing my man i found a new way i found a better way i found the only way to cure frustration i don't care what you say about my moral ways get on your knees and pray

cos you're slaves anyway coming and going and moving and groaning and hitting that kitten and making him yowl wailing and flailing and trudging and flogging and punching my doggie and making him howl i found a new way i found a better way i found the only way to cure frustration i don't care what you say about my moral ways get on your knees and pray cos you're slaves anyway my possession, my possession, my possession, mine, all mine kicking that butt now licking that butt now kneel on that gut now the red light's on pushing and shoving that bread in the oven i'm paying them back for what they've done i found a new way i found a better way i found the only way to cure frustration i don't care what you say about my moral ways get on your knees and pray cos you're slaves anyway my possession, my possession, my possession, mine, all mine isle of man nice place clean water fresh air blue skies like pirates we tried it we took what we deserved half million years later we'd used up our reserves we're crying 'what happened?' we get what we deserve we get what we deserve we get instead the isle of man the isle of man i've wandered through forests with our garbage waist-high can't clean it i mean it we get what we deserve rainy mornings dry evenings

it's growing on my nerves just gases you fascists you get what you deserve you get what you deserve you get instead the isle of man the isle of man i'm writing this letter so no one will forget some future cave dweller will find these notes an isle of man --------------------------------------------------------------------twelve inch singles 1981-1984 -----------------------------produced by:various release date: 1985 record label: tvt 7035 1. (everyday is) halloween 2. all day 3. the nature of love 4. cold life 5. halloween remix 6. nature of love (cruelty mix b) 7. all day (remix b) 8. cold life dub (everyday is) halloween well i live with snakes and lizards and other things that go bump in the night cos to me everyday is halloween i have given up hiding and started to fight i have started to fight well any time, any place, anywhere that i go all the people seem to stop and stare they say 'why are you dressed like it's halloween? you look so absurd, you look so obscene' o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world well i let their teeny minds think that they're dealing with someone who is over the brink and i dress this way just to keep them at bay cos halloween is everyday it's everyday o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see they're just like me it's the same, it's the same in the whole wide world o, why can't i live a life for me? why should i take the abuse that's served? why can't they see

they're just like me i'm not the one that's so absurd why hide it? why fight it? hurt feelings best to stop feeling hurt from denials, reprisals it's the same it's the same in the whole wide world all day well i'm hiding my eyes from the morning sun and i keep on working till the work is all done but a voice in my head keeps ticking away as the sweat's hosed down from yet another day well he works hard and he lives hard and he breaks his back without nothing to gain while the boss man sits around and drinks champagne all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision well i'm peeling the blisters off my working hand is that what it takes to make you understand? that it's something you read, not something you meant to be slaving away without a shred of integrity he worked hard and he lived hard and he broke his back without nothing to say while the man in control was just laughing away all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision was it something you read? was it something you meant? was it something you said? or was it heaven sent? all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one transition all day (you work and you work and you work and) in life, there's just one decision the nature of love love love is like an open hand stings a little when it lands hold me closer hold me tighter hold me so damn close that my heart's on fire it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world is walking round in theirs i said love love is like a razor blade double edge and double pain hold me closer hold me tighter when i rip your flesh and the pain is fresh it's a fantasy it's a nightmare and the whole damn world doesn't seem to care i said love love is like a butcher knife double sharp for single lives hold me closer hold me tighter as the lights go out and we start to shout it's a fantasy it's a nightmare with a big black bruise and a handful of hair i said love cold life cold you know the yolk it's spreading from you laugh as people scatter 'bout surrounded by a veil of stars you realize your life is dark earth gets colder every day if scientists could have their way they'd study us from far away and watch as people's minds decay cold your body's in the hands of fools with swimming pools and low iq's there's nothing to see, nothing to do buy your stocks and sell your jewels bill collectors stole my mail my wife and kids are all for sale i hope to god i go to jail and no one can come up with bail cold life i can't control my buried thoughts the slightest thing makes me distraught i'm like the people i once fought my every action's being bought robot trainers earn their pay as mutant kids go

out to play it's such a pretty pretty day with orange nights and days of grey cold i've now become a nervous wreck i'm getting closer to my death i keep expecting my last breath as all my friends just laugh and jest the earth is such a filthy place and human such an awful race and i'd rather live in outer space where death goes at a slower pace cold life --------------------------------------------------------------------------the land of rape and honey --------------------------produced by: hypo luxa, hermes pan (ministry) release date: 1988 record label: sire - d102679 1. stigmata 2. the missing 3. deity 4. golden dawn 5. destruction 6. hizbollah (cd only) 7. the land of rape and honey 8. you know what you are 9. i prefer (cd only) 10. flashback 11. abortive stigmata stronger than reason stronger than lies the only truth i know is the look in your eyes the look in your eyes! just like a car crash just like a knife my favourite weapon is the look in your eyes you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! there's a ton locked in your empty eyes get out of my life! i'm chewing on glass and eating my fingers i'm not the one who's run out of lies lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies! you've run out of lies!

you've run out of lies! you've run out of time! cutting my face and walking on splinters i lost my soul to the look in your eyes your eyes! you you you you

ran ran ran ran

out out out out

of of of of

lies! lies! lies! time!

stigmata! o, you have empty eyes!... they tell me nothing, nothing but lies the missing the missing he's missing... they took him away! the last days the sinking shunned the last rites of what we have done so watch yourself and watch what you say the martyr dies so what's at stake? he takes it for granted his time's gonna come he's missing... they took him away! watch yourself! the missing! he's missing... they took him away! the last days the time has come the last rites of what we've become so watch yourself and watch what you say the martyr dies so what's at stake? he takes it for granted his time's gonna come he's missing... they took him away! watch yourself! they took him away! deity eyes open

empty as halos he comes for me deity help- what's the matter? looking for someone? he comforts me deity resurrection coming in stereo if you say so he comes for me let's pray to tv divinity he covets me deity resurrection coming in stereo if you say so deity resurrection coming in stereo if you say so the land of rape and honey face to face blood to blood the mountain you tumbled from and in the land of rape and honey you prey step by step you climb the mountain you prey fist to fist eye to eye the rulers of the wasteland and in the land of rape and honey you prey step by step you climb the mountain you prey head to head chest to chest which country is the very best? and in the land of rape and honey you prey step by step you climb the mountain you prey

you know what you are don't try to reason no words, no words i've seen it all before don't cry because it is too late we make some people think that's all they need to get home now look into my eyes i've seen the light the star starts in the west we have until we cry last time we offer it's going to slaughter out his covered eyes like in a really happy ending don't look into my eyes you're gonna die please don't kill me now in a house of guilty hate we go around in circles retaliate ignore the pain ignore the terror we saw the tears lost in their eyes i prefer have you run into the human race have you run into the world have you run into the system and i raise the white flag and i raise the white flag and that's the way i prefer... flagellation! have you run into your head have you run into your balls have you run into the human condition and i raise the white flag and i raise the white flag and that's the way i prefer... flagellation! i prefer flagellation! flashback i'm gonna kill him i'm gonna break his face i'm gonna crack his skull i'm gonna kick it all in i'm gonna break his legs off i'm gonna rip his head off and then shit down his neck and then i'll laugh like a motherfucker and then i'll laugh like a motherfucker

cos i hate her! and then i'll fall past i'm gonna flashback flashback! cos i hate her! pneumatic drill right through her chest bedroom punching right through the rest i'm gonna make her suffer i'm gonna make her suffer and then watch her die cos i hate her! and then i'll fall past i'm gonna flashback flashback! cos i hate her! i'm gonna rip her flesh i'm gonna piss in her face i'm gonna rip her open and then hit her with mace i'm gonna make her suffer i'm gonna make her suffer i'm gonna make her cry i'm gonna watch her die cos i hate her! and then i'll fall past i'm gonna flashback flashback i hate her! flashback! laugh like a motherfucker! -----------------------------------------------------------------------the mind is a terrible thing to taste ------------------------------------produced by: hypo luxa/hermes pan release date: 1989 record label: sire - 7559-26004-2 tracks: thieves burning inside never believe cannibal song breathe so what test faith collapsing -----------------------------------------------------------------------thieves

thieves, thieves and liars, murderers hypocrites and bastards [in laughter] hey thanks for nothing! morals in the dust two-faced bastards and syncophants no trust thieves! liar! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know which side are they? which side are they? which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came? which side are they? which side are they? which side of the grass is greener? inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know you're like a great big fucking gun, just waiting to get squeezed! breathe, forfeit erection! toxical injection geriatric fuck-fest we still believe in lies thieves! liar! inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, we don't know who started it? who started it? which side are they? which side are they? which side of their mouth do you suppose that it came? which side are they? which side are they? which side of the grass is greener? inside, outside, which side, you don't know my side, your side, their side, no one knows you're like a great big hit of acid, waiting to be taken! burning inside will these dreams still follow me out of dark obscurity? can't you see it up in the sky as it kicks you in the face and sucks you dry you never had the answers and now you tell me the facts of life i really couldn't be bothered with you get out of my face and watch me die burning inside! burning inside! absolution and a frozen room are the dreams of men below i try to grab it but the touch is hot the mirror collapses, but the image came not i'm scared of the darkness in the light i scare myself because i know i'm right i see the evil in your savage eye as it cuts right through the sky

burning inside!

burning inside!

calling a mantra with a blade in the skin for the demons within i feel the pain is the death and decay but the lesson never fades away too little shadows, turn away you throw the man through the window pane another slave and a victim of fate another lesson in hate burning inside! burning inside! never believe is anybody here? is everybody here? the service is about to begin! i make my servant by fires insidious instead of the laughter, there's the last of the separated jewels i'll make dust of the whole damned wall i'll make hovels for all the worms i left off my hands to save these idiot bastards bastards! me and cellmate have lost again for ever the sun shines and i breathe 'my father...' i want so much to remove your past and deliver your neurotic flesh from evil grab grab grab grab

this this this this

giant's giant's giant's giant's

hand hand hand hand

but i'm only allowed to touch what i know and all that i know are hypocrites liars and witches who burned in the name of human fear you will never believe never believe we haven't much time left evening will come and with it the equivalent of the devil's animals with fear to come they ask of us favors we cannot fulfill they ask, curse at us, and we smile caught in conviction a crowd of senseless individuals will go further than both love and greed as the clear salvation -- the future is here! you will never believe never believe cannibal song dehumanize

lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride in an infant mind thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind don't do that to me criminals, sodomites, all laughing at me life is hell forever fighting a deficient mind we're all left alone and poisoned a sickening trap a sight worth seeing dehumanize lobotomize thrown into a cell swallow your pride in an infant mind don't do that to me don't do that to me force breaks our back time preserves, fearfully you know what i said hideous and strange thrown into a cell a punishment fit for a crippled mind breathe breathe! corporate causes with self-served denial the raping of the land collapse the lungs malfunction they never learned to breathe breathe! rusted syringes and half-thought disposal a burial at sea waste water graveyard swimming in disease breathe! this is the world it's not working this is this earth breathe!

breathe, you fucker!

children gasping the second-hand air

death and desperation we've got to cut the lies with truth we breathe breathe! this is the world the clock's ticking is this this earth? breathe!

breathe, you fucker!

hope springs eternal but there's no conviction action mistaken for ransom is paid all this concern is the true contradiction the world is insane breathe! this is the world it's got no future is this this earth? breathe!

breathe, you fucker! so what

die! die! die! die! scum sucking depravity debauched! anal fuck-fest, thrill olympics savage scourge supply and sanctify so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die!

die! die! die! you said it! sedatives supplied become laxatives my eyes shit out lies i only kill to know i'm alive so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! die! die! die! so what, it's your problem to learn to live with destroy us, or make us saints we don't care, it's not our fault that we were born too late a screaming headache on the brow of the state killing time is appropriate to make a mess and fuck all the rest, we say, we say so what? so what? die! die! die! die! die! now i know what is right i'll kill them all if i like i'm a time bomb inside no one listens to reason, it's too late and i'm ready to fight! so what? now i'm ready to fight!

test yo!

this is a test

you you you you

say this when i say that say this when i say that say this when i say that say this when i say that but i'm not with that so step back or kiss my... cos i won't be held back so don't fight or dis' or piss me off cos i'm not soft or weak running down in the maze of the day this is a new phase don't be commercial or sell out or get the hell out of this business but i won't be caught in that net of suckers and glass people, weak, beaten down and feeble society probably wants me to give up society probably wants me to give up as i live up to be my best in a test a fight for death as i fight for my very last breath and etc. and etc. gotta be strong but wait a minute now could i be better? now could i be better? well, only i know well, what about you? or do you have a clue? could've, would've, should've - it's too late could've, would've, should've - it's too late why you waiting, laying, sit there? move! be your own person! wake up, make up your mind seek the knowledge that you will find be your own person wait for it from the weak cos they make the people level and with you make a team so believe, and be your best cos this is a test go for the top chart rock with all your heart rock-hard, stay up, go deal with what's going on in this crazy world man woman child boy girl insane to the playing love music power pain be what you gotta do get the knowing attitude cos this is a test that we suggest be your own person! cos this is a test!

this is... a test! cos we all know who is the real victim society does not want them picked on labelled or staked, don't raise his guilt, don't miss your boot and kicked him faceless in the morning in their urban plight felt like a symbol with every situation any one tour already overcrowded project nation, more inflation better your damn situation but how can you better your situation if you have no occupation? ten of us said, watch the rolodex center see how many different schools you can enter they're out turning in the pit, but life's a bitch the world's unconcerned i'll tell you why it's stuck in a ditch you own the key to the damn city but it's a damn pity faith collapsing faith collapsing! -----------------------------------------------------------------------psalm 69 -------

produced by: h. luxa/h. pan release date: 1992 record label: sire/ warner bros. - 26727-2 1. n.w.o. 2. just one fix 3. tv ii 4. hero 5. jesus built my hotrod 6. scarecrow 7. psalm 69 8. corrosion 9. grace all tracks written by ministry, except 3 ministry/c. connely 5 ministry/g. haynes n.w.o. 5:29 all the locals hide open fire cos i sky high, with a you'll never see me

their tears of regret love you to death heartache of stone cos i'm always alone

how to love without a trace of dissent

i'll buy the torture cos you pay for the rent tied high with a broken command you're all alone to the promised land i'm in love with this malicious intent you've been taken but you don't know it yet what you will know must never live to be found cos it's the subject of the eyes of the clown just one fix 5:11 blood keeps drinking away certain of its destination driving through new orleans at night gotta find a destination just one fix life keeps slipping away fighting in a war with damnation poised, keep cutting away i'm looking in through to salvation just one fix like if i boarded a train trying to take in another station join us and the choice will be made unless we kill the lie as a nation just one fix tv ii 3:04 tell me something i don't know show me something i can't use push the button connect the goddamned dots live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom commodity sodomy glass autonomy promise everything take it all away give it a rest you're lying through your teeth you're lying through your teeth who what which why who when did you say the earth would stop turning? when did you say we would all start burning? when should i make a pledge? should i listen to the voices in my head? connect the goddamned dots connect the goddamned dots connect the goddamned dots who am i trying to impress? who could care less? tell me something i don't know hero

4:12 they get you ready to fight the fuse is ready to blow you shoot to kill on sight they call you g i joe you never wanted to stop the smell of burning flesh the hero marches alone across the highway of death it's not a matter of rights it's just a matter of war don't have a reason to fight they never had one before you're just a killing machine he's come to take you down we take the gas that we need and pump the blood on the ground they're gonna set you up so they can take you down they're gonna suck you dry they've left the blood to be found they're gonna rip you apart you're gonna burn at the stake cos when it's time to collect it's only heroes who pay jesus built my hotrod 4:51 soon i discovered that this rock thing was true jerry lee lewis was the devil jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world so there was only one thing that i could do was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long ding dang a dong bong bing bong ticky ticky thought of a gun everytime i try to do it all now baby am i on the run why why why why why baby if it's so evil then? give me my time, with all my power give it to me all again (wow) ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong every where i go everytime you tell me baby when i settle down got to get me a trailer park and hold my world around why why why why? ding ding donga dong dong ding dong dingy dingy son of a gun half my time i tell you baby

never am i all for sure why why why why why baby sicky sicky from within everytime i stick my finger on in ya you're a wild wild little town bitch now how 'bout ding a dang dong dong dong ling long dingy a dingy dong a down everytime you tell me baby when i settle down got to get me a trailer park and hold my world around why why why why? in my dang a ding a ding a ding dong a sticky sticky son of a gun ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong why why never know why why wack a dong a dang ding dong then you take it on the bill ding dang dong don't dong whoa! i wanna love ya! why why why, why why darling do you do you tell me to play? half the time i talk about it all now baby you know what i'm talkin' about i said why why why it'll ticky ticky ticky ticky son of a gun ding ding dong a bong bong bing bong ticky ticky thought of a gun bing bing bang a bang a bang bing bong bing a bing bang a bong binga bing a bang a bong bong bing bong bing banga bong bing bing bang a bong bong bing bing binga binga banga bong bing bing bang a bang bang bing bong aarrrhhhh... ding dang a dang bong bing bong ticky ticky thought of a gun everytime i try to do it all now baby am i on the run why why why it'll ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky dawn of a gun bing bing bang a bong a bong bing bang a ticky ticky thought of a gun bing bip bip a bop bop boom bam ticky ticky through the day if you got a doubt 'bout baby the memory is on the bed why why why why why darlin' uh it don't know when my time is on might tell me never do it on his own

if my time was all as is yours make me burn a wish when my time with you is brutish no i'll never not ever why why why why why why baby heavy hell alone and it's here it's this thunder the thunder oh thunder oh! jesus built my car it's a love affair mainly jesus and my hot rod yeah, fuck it! scarecrow 8:21 staring in the face of condemnation laughter fills the sky instead of rain live my life alone in resignation arms outstretched for those who cannot see scarecrow crucified and left in isolation pictures of our lost morality scarecrow eyeless stares invite this whole damnation rotting corpse of inhumanity scarecrow psalm 69 5:29 congregation, please be seated and open your prayer guides to the book of revelations, psalm 69 drinking the blood of jesus drinking it right from his veins learning to swim in the ocean learning to prowl in his name the body of christ looked unto me a preacher with god-given hands he wants you to suck on the holy ghost and swallow the sins of man psalm 69 the invisible piss of the holy ghost comes down like acid rain they're making a bonnet of terminal guilt the scavengers go on parade

the fathers who write that eternity is used to fight the sword have filled you up with the devil's cock and he'll come in the name of the lord the way to succeed and the way to suck eggs corrosion 4:55 grace 3:06 -----------------------------------------------------------------------filth pig --------produced by: jourgensen/baker release date: 1996 record label: warner brothers - 9362-45838-2 tracks: 1. reload 2. filth pig 3. lava 4. crumbs 5. useless 6. dead guy 7. game show 8. the fall 9. lay lady lay 10. brick windows ----------------------------------------------------------------------reload (three... two... one... roll five.) you got something to say you better jump in my face got something to hide you're scared as shit and should die aim aim reload you say it's time to collect i'll kick your ass and eject time to settle the score, throw your ass through the door aim aim reload you wanna lie like a dog you're gonna wake up with fleas inside a world full of shit you're still an asshole to me aim aim reload filth pig

i start out (???) things and people start (???) been a thousand days and it's getting overexposed then someone asks, "how do you sleep at night?" with the borrowed dreams from a broken past you keep runnin' away don't matter how fast or long you always wind up there another thousand pileups in the ugly name (of morality/a poor addict who's) fucking ugly, some creepy guy keeps asking "how the fuck do you sleep at night?" with a frozen dream and a borrowed hope that died filth pig, filth pig i sleep with both eyes open filth pig, filth pig i keep chasing this tail but the tail gets bigger go figure a thousand more stories keep the fires and flames alive so how the fuck do i dream at night? with the memories of a borrowed death, the guilty tide filth pig, filth pig he sleeps with both eyes open filth pig, filth pig he sleeps all right because he's a filth pig lava hot lava comes down big monkey goes floatin' on a boiler coming down like rain ("oh yeah") hot lava cools down keeps travelin' ???? blowing over with a ball and chain hot lava are you always this ready to serve but what the hell is this lust that you found got lava inside some (boner?) lost it was nothing but the ??? underground "(be healed, be healed!)" hot lava, lava "(be healed be healed!)" big kick a mule piston burn...makes borderline [like patty and the people in mind(?)] / like daddy and the people that fight big boiler make hot gray matter not .... borderlines the dragon pops at two at a time "be healed!" hot lava, lava "be healed, be healed!" hot lava hot lava crumbs yeah you're down there shooting blanks from broken guns you fire all day long and still not hit a fucking one don't wanna know what some sick [sniper(?)] fuck considers fun prob'ly throw a party, served melted ice cream over crumbs just crumbs just crumbs you prob'ly lick more ass than anyone i guess you like the taste of shit on your tongue no matter what you order the same thing will come a plate of refried shit just covered in crumbs

just crumbs just crumbs "i never had a life. i don't even know what life is." "have you? have you? have you?" "i have what you'd call a life." "everday of my life." "i have what you'd call a life." useless tell me what i want what i need for all my [sweating(?)] show me what i get what i earned and why keep me all yours, braindead and useless take my cues when the crippled many must sit with you, corrupt, without pity the slogan [ream on(?)] greed, lust and power feeble, missighted, without honor the failing marriage slowly grinding into nothing a bleeding union only left with trying offspring suffer, this simple nagging wound this childish riddle, this dumb cartoon keep me all yours, braindead and useless keep me all yours, braindead and useless these fucking [dense(?)], form english hands reaching for my throat, to coddle, and throttle, remove all hope try your best to choke the very meaning from my life a callous whore, a cheating wife keep me all yours, braindead and useless (useless, fucking useless) keep me all yours, braindead and useless (useless, fucking useless) dead guy another day, another knife in the back it's happened so many times, i stopped tryin to keep track you're stuck stickin' it in, you're stuck stickin' it in take it up to the hilt to cover up your own fuckin' guilt and when the shit goes down you're out of places to hide no time to ask could the motherfucker really survive get a load of this fuck, he's the dead guy it's just a natural ? you never fuckin' possessed you lost control of my life you want control of the rest you're always stickin' it in, you're always stickin' it in you stuck it so many times you .... .... .... but when the shit comes down you're out of places to hide time to ask if you're alive or just pretend that you died just remember this fuck, i'm the dead guy i'm the dead guy dead guy game show cuttin' pictures from a magazine a paper smile but not from you to me another statue in a horoscope a breakfast alone another compromising ? another game show

the game show the game show i pass the time away before i sleep i have your picture sitting next to me i taped your picture in a book don't bother reading i just take a look don't have to turn the page before i know so full of answers i don't need to know i like to take control / our life was just a joke i like the game show the game show the game show don't have to turn the page before i know you ask me questions i already know the time has finally come to let you know i like to take control / our life was just a joke i like the game show the game show the game show the fall take this invitation bishops queen to pawn all of us were taken all that was is gone of this information shames us one and all where's my compensation? watching others fall welcome to the fall everything is useless nothing works at all nothing ever matters welcome to the fall welcome to the fall welcome to the fall welcome to the fall lay lady lay (adapted from dylan archives at archive.uwp.edu) lay lady lay lay across my big brass bed lay lady lay lay across my big brass bed stay lady stay stay while the night is still ahead stay lady stay heaven's ? fills our head whatever colors you have in your mind i show them to you and you see them shine stay lady stay stay with your man a while till the break of day then you're gonna see him smile his clothes are dirty but his hands are clean and you're the best thing he's ever seen why wait any longer for the world to begin you can have your cake and eat it too

why wait any longer for the one you love when he's standing over you lay lady lay lay across my big brass bed stay lady stay we're gonna build the whole night ahead i long to see you in the morning light i long to reach for you all night lay lady lay brick windows been bangin' my head against the window just trying to see the world outside some people say it doesn't matter some people take you for a ride i am covered in blood and broken glass it seems the window likes to fight some people say the world's on fire some people say the world's on ice some people say the world's on ice sweet all alone in alienation brick windows i am sticking my face right through the glass just trying to see if the world's alive some people will say the window's broken some people will say it's all right some people will say it's all right keep bangin' my head against the wall (wall..) just trying to keep the past alive some people who make the windows shatter some people who make it airtight some people who make it airtight sweet all alone in alienation sweet all alone in alienation brick windows brick windows ----------------------------------------------------------------------dark side of the spoon ---------------------album: produced by: release date: record label:

dark side of the spoon hypo luxa june 1999 warner bros. - 9362 - 47311-2 -------

they are slowly being worked on, and please do not email me telling me how you think they are wrong, unless you have corrections. also, do not steal these without permission. ministry songs are not easy to transcribe! at all! - afra ahmad.(may 20 1999)

supermanic soul (spoken sample: "take this first song and uh, dance i mean this, uh, first, let's start playing and dance.") well i just shot a man to death i´ve got a bullet out of my head he fired back and i can´t stop a final shot and a final breath afraid to stop and afraid to check the smell of fear and the color red had him with a 2 inch shell well it´s a brutal smell of death (* 4) saw my reflection in a spoon. i had it with my not approved excuse (--> ???) i´ve got a supermanic soul i´ve pulled the trigger in the record room (* 2) i´ve put a stop to his loonytoons i´ve put him down in the record room these are for you dead - break this these are for you dead - break this dead! (talking samples) these are for you dead - break this these are for you dead - break this * 3 -----------------------------------------------------------------------whip or chain don't wanna hear your voice don't really know if i have a choice don't wanna be the one that makes you forget you're choking on the (brain/grain ?) you're choking again

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don't think we ever met don't think you offered up a godgiven name who did the talking, man the whip on the chain? you've got pleasure from the seconds of pain but then they get you with the burden of shame the true measure if the one that remains don't wanna .. don't wanna .. don't wanna be your pain don't wanna be your pain baby don't wanna be your pain don't wanna be your pain baby don't wanna be your pain

(very fast wailing sample: i live in a concrete cell, no soul is dead until we create a ? mind she ? the exact time she ? and take the young boy's lip she loves to see him crawl up the chamber wall ?????????? and with the eyes you covered like a ?? hovered ???????? and when they scream no more she doesn't care for one more (* 3) ) won't let you kill me just yet don't even care if there's a price on my head don't wanna wind up in a blood ?? don't wanna be your .. don't wanna be your chain don't wanna be your chain baby don't wanna be your chain i said, i don't ...don't... i don't wanna be you chain (* 2) -----------------------------------------------------------------------bad blood what's lies? full moon and thoughts collide we look for answers in those catatonic, dying blod-shot eyes we ask if vermin are the ones that already learned those aren't tears, they're just bad bad blood just bad bad blood! what lies? no big surprise. we get our clues from the ones who thought up they will conquer us are we too fucked to say the end is here too much? we're in denial with bad blood chorus: (wailing sample: do you remember the strain? do you remember the pain? do you remember who caused all the blame?) bad blood! (wailing sample: do you remember me? do you remember us? do you surrender your dreams or your trust? ) bad blood! what lies?

he's finally come alive out of these mediocre plentiful things all the time a steady stream of madness conscious to a flood the clock is ticking for bad blood chorus. [fade out...] -----------------------------------------------------------------------eureka pile i seem to find myself each time i run away don't give me vivid in some yester body (selling) days ? sometimes they reappear just like the sands of time or d'ya like some quick sand baby running off my summer wine same faces broken homes those memories have fled all tears within me now are dormant or dead my viens are bursting with a thirst that you cannot ignore alright eureka's pile now my saviour, or my whore there's a lot that they don't mind when things aren't what they seem i always wake up baby cos i always wake up me my life may ain't come to much ignore my history least my eureka pile can see some way i feel ain't the way i see (* 2) my eureka pile and me. -----------------------------------------------------------------------step i need help i need help i don't know who i am no more i'm gonna get some help help me [ singing: step! step, step it up baby! got a question for you: like, who, what, where, why? are we even here? or are we following alone like another lost indian looking for his tribe? oh dial the phone. we might as well find someone else. ??? grrr! ] (wails) i like to apologize to all my wonderful fans

for sticking by me through such troubled times i love all you so much i wish i could take you all to the betty ford clinic yeah [ singing: step! step it up baby! we gotta sell instutions of recovery, we gotta kill distrubutions of the pills i take! ??? grr! step! step it up baby! ...] i love all my fans through these times of nakedness if i could i'd take any one of you with me put you right underneath my pillow [fade out..] -----------------------------------------------------------------------nursing home the moat in my eyes never bring me no sleep they just strap me inside with the demons i keep gotta leave me alone gotta let it be lone tired of living, too tired to die makes the sharks keep swimming when he don't know why gotta get the lean fin only thin that he wears nursing me to the movie that he shows nursing me to the bureau and the ? nursing me can't you leave me alone? nursing me in a nursing home sleeping and working and an old man come just to profit my feet with a broken old hose stop riding those rails stop setting those sails he likes (boom boogie ??) he's got an old trombone while he's laughing at the fires with a broken beat phone got a troubled soul but he's not that cold (chorus) i've been nursed ten years in a nursing home! stinking on water i could use me food he needed big fat gravy on the wake of pot roast got a fire inside it's gonna burn him alive

talking and struggle till the roof is blown got a bed and three squares in a nursing home gonna say bye-bye he's gonna walk on by -----------------------------------------------------------------------kaif i love the silence i'm in. i think i dreamed this before some lives seem so incomplete some just keep coming back for more where did the time go? (echoing) (*3) i can't remember how it end don't even know who i am a fading memory a fading image redrawn can't wait for ever more where did the time go? (echoing) (*3) remember things i never said i've seen the faces before i hope the future is dead the dead keep asking for more where did the time go? (echoing) (*3) -----------------------------------------------------------------------vex & siolence if the child ?? then come later wrapped up and returned after many years crawled out from under (uncouth/?) layers to take a shell back and slip in well wouldn't you? would the child answer full of anger full of rage & blood lust spoken but never shown with a seeming riddle or a puzzle neither the brutal nor the timid could have known deep down inside it's too dark to see the ??, a shot of something what violent other could there be? here is the end here is nothing nothing after breathing in the beginning after beating through what wasn't there death became the only answer, but not the cure the final act became the meaning no-one cared [fade out]

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