NAPALM DEATH
diatribes

Design:Graham Humphreys. Photography:Sergey Sergeyev

GREED KILLING
(music:Harris, lyrics:Embury, Harris)

The wrong time, the
wrong place
our smilling face of distrust.
Buried, the seed deep in
all our hands.
Prepared ourselves for
the fall.

The greed killing!
Instinct to mistrust,
instinct - the lust.
Their butchery of feelings,
geared for the greed
killing

The greed killing!

Not now, then when?
Not now, then when?
When? (x4)

The lust denies the need.
(x5)

Existence is a steady
flow,
the moulded image
grows.
No core, no faith in what
you are,
the pressure builds right
from the start.

Could it be just sour
grapes?
Or have we failed to fit
their shape?
It's always give, and
never take.
How much more can we
give?
How much more can we
take?

GLIMPSE INTO GENOCIDE
(music:Pintado, lyrics:Embury)

Blindness leading.
Which oneof me is real?
Thruogh corridors of
uncertainty - a force without
form.

I've dug a hole so deep,
full of the shit of compro-
mise.
For once can't I keep
pain on the outside.

Adapt.
Take on release.
Others.
Thoughts infringed.

Adapt.
Take on release.
A life -
On pause syringed.

A glimpse into genocide.
My own emotions, a mil-
lion strong.
A heart so full of empti-
ness.

RIPE FOR THE BREAKING
(music:Harris, Embury. lyrics:Greenway)

... you weren't born with
the world falling at your
feet

The path is long and ago-
nizing being dragged on
your knees

...and the silver spoon in
your mouth tastes spoilt
with rust.

when all that glitters isn't
gold and fortunes turn to
dust.

You're prime for the rap-
ing.

And when you don't pan-
der to meet the agenda,
scavengers start to gath-
er.
Perverse visionaries taste
the leather ;
the just rewards in con-
trolled rebellion.

Tossed and proved like a
gristly piece of meat,
lock, stock, and barrel
slave.
You just don't contradict
big brother.
He's got the right to push
you under

...and they pledge you
the earth, then pull you
six feet down.

And you're branded with
the stigma; unusable
dropouts.

...and with inspiration
ravaged, you take the
final bow.

the creative demeanor
shattered into a million
pieces.

You ripe for the breaking.

CURSED TO CRAWL
(music and lyrics: Embury)

A fragile peace that exist
inside.
A frame so shallow,
so narrow-minded.
An open wound -
we run inside.
A raging turmoil.
Helplesses confides…

Cursed to crawl
for my pale and bleeding
heart.
Cursed to crawl.
Pale and bleeding

Enter this sphere,
commonplace, bordeline.
Between my rage,
between our hate.
Damn our mistakes.
Fixation blinds.
The pain of knowing
the truth beyond…

(repat chorus)

Unprepared.
A gruesome display.
Perhaps a replay -
self-inflicted.
Reduced to nothing,
my pice of mind
saduced.
Unworthiness.
The scars never heal…

(repeat chorus)

COLD FORGIVENESS
(music: Harris, Pintado,  yrics: Embury)

25 years severed,
take it and like it.
Feel like there's nothing
more,
end of story.

Thirsty, despised,
real love destroys.
Hungry for anger.
Hungry for …anger.

The face behind the face.

Cold forgiveness meant
not for me.

Race against time,
colapse.
Fall in line,
Nothing is sacred

Thirsty, despised,
real love destroys.
Hungry for anger.
Hungry for …anger.

The face behind the face.

Cold forgiveness meant
not for me.

MY OWN WORST ENEMY
(music and lyrics: Embury)

Played out, wide off the
mark,
mania develops,
akin to fiction,
more than to a world of
fact.

My own worst enemy.
My own worst enemy.
Lifes foul treachery.
My own worst enemy.

Dams of emotion build
a dull and turbid screen,
cloudlike veils of black
in jungles of hopes
appresed.

(repeat chorus)

So many times,
for no reason.
So many promised
punches,
for what reason?

Ceaseless decay,
parallel obscene and fla-
grant.
Ceaseless decay,
restrained my mind coils

So many times,
for no reason.
So many promised
punches,
for what reason?

Ceaseless decay,
parallel obscene and fla-
grant.
Ceaseless decay,
restrained my mind coils

(repeat verses 3 & 4)
(repeat verse 1 and cho-
rus)

JUST REWARDS
(music: Harris, lyrics: Greenway)

I lived for the moment.
I grabbed hold and didn't
relent
(the) skin of my teeth,
holds so longer.

And now I come to claim
my just rewards.
Face down! ground down
with no recourse.

And now I come to claim
my just rewards.
The spoils of the toils are
spent.

Where is the right place?
Where is the right place.
right time?

If the face fits, wear it
Faces lit while heart and
soul slopes on.

Scraping through - Just
Rewards!
Dig it dirt - Just
Rewards!
Hold your ground - Just Rewards!
Being sucked down -
Just Rewards!

Where is the right place?
Where is the right place.
right time?

When you lay down on
your own law.
You swim against the
sanctiminious tides.

Down not out - Just
Rewards!
Looping tracks - Just
Rewards!
Stunted growth - Just
Rewards!
Dwinding hope - Just
Rewards!

DOGMA
(music and lyrics: Embury)

Innocence -
a painful reminiscence
of what was not
and will never be.
Meant not for me.
An unjust war
on the futile.

Bludgeoning my affection
(wide open).
Cries of overkill.

Scraps of memories
flung from our master's
table.
A plan I'm sure to disable.
Allegiance to none other.

Bludgeoning my affection
(wide open).
Cries of overkill.

Regenerate a healing
cathrasis
that bursts, meaningless.
Regenerate a healing
cathrasis
that bursts, meaningless.

Graceful - a selfish will
the chilling thrill
A play on the nerves to
end "all serves."

As penance
to a man's drying tear.
We leer but deny ourselves.

TAKE THE STRAIN
(music: Embury. lyrics: Greenway)

Take the strain! Can you
take it?
Take the strain! Or even
fake it?
Take the strain! Aren't we
lucky
Take the strain! to be breathing?

Take the strain!

Are you the man in the next bed
without the tubes, without
the life support?
Maybe the man whose
pocket weigh you down.

Take the strain! Do you
wear strife
Take the strain! like a
clown?
Take the strain! or accu-
mulate
Take the strain! with a
frown?

Take the strain!

Are you the animal
that escapes the snares
and traps?
Bearing no quarry scars,
and the hunter's crown.

We were taught to follow
leaders - follow leaders!
never to challenge the
singular pack.
The goals they set slip
the grasp - slip our
grasp!
chosing tails without the
basic facts.

Choose full pain, violate,
make the grade.
tout wires fray,
electro-brain, take the
strain!

We were taught to follow
leaders - follow leaders!
never to challenge the
singular pack.
The goals they set slip
the grasp - slip our
grasp!
chosing tails without the
basic facts.

DIATRIBES
(music: Embury, Harris. lyrics: Greenway)

Bite the bit, scream till
you're blue in the face

Nice pipe, dreams or passive revolution?

Foot soldiers
with weapons of placards
and banners.
How will they stop the rot?

No standing to reason,
'cause reason is treason
---
It doesn't seem feasible.

Lie down.
And cry all you can.
The machine rolls over
you.

It just don't seem feasible
- no!

Black face to Nazi - try
pleading affinity.
Hands up, boot in, shat-
tering the passive dream.
But is it right to tolerate
this fucked democratic process?

Shattering the passive
dream.

Is it 'cause we like to
hear the sound of our
own voice?
Big hearted diatribes, just
like my dilemma.
Time to return compli-
ments, shattering the
passive dream?

PLACATE, SADATE, ERADICATE
(music: Pintado. lyrics: Greenway)

Load the burden across
my shoulders.
Pour the effluent on thick.

Placate, sadate, eradi-
cate.
Am I worthy to carry the
weight?

Wage a war on my prone feelings.
Anaesthetised and numb.

Placate, sadate, eradi-
cate.
Strangely calm when I
should be enraged.

Placate, sadate.
Placate, sadate.
Eradicate.

Don't befriend the silver
screen,
as long as others face fir-
ing lines.
Recline, relax take it in
your stride,
by the voyeur.

Tamed by rabid entertain-
ers.
Only observing - I'm
exempt.

CORROSIVE ELEMENTS
(music: Harris, Embury. lyrics: Greenway)

Staying on an even keel.
Keeping a gauge.
Sanity hangs in the bal-
ance.
(I) could go either way.
Celebral half life.
The darkest Summer
days.
My pressure defences
melting away.

'Cause I can't level this
brimming, seething dread.
My pressure defences
melting away.

With anxiety I'm burning!

Stripping down to the
core.

Corrosive Elements
inducing.
Corrosive Elements that
sap being.
Corrosive Elements
inducing.
Corrosive Elements that
sap being (x2)

Corrosive Elements - joy
toxin.
Corrosive Elements -
please cleanse me!
Corrosive Elements - joy
toxin.
Corrosive Elements -
please cleanse me! (x2)