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DISTANT THUNDER
Instruments & Vocals: Mark W
Harmonies: Catherine Rose Crowther
Producer: Mark W
Engineer: Leonard Marcel
Production Assistant: Leonard Marcel
Front Cover, Photos & Graphics: Michael Miro
Back Cover Photo: Greg Gaar
Recorded at Poolside Studio, S.F.
©1985 LAST RECORDS
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Simon Says download MP3 Close the window
And bolt the door
They've got a lot
We need more
Sandbag the roof
Lie down on the floor
Don't ask how they're bought
Don't ask what for
CHORUS
With enough opium
To ease the pain
We could take care of
Those caught out in the rain
"With enough shovels
To go around"*
We could be safe
In the ground
Something's goin' to happen
And it's going to happen soon
Sheriff Reagan's got his guns
And it's High Noon
Limited nuclear war
An idea who's time has come
Cavemen keeping score
Watching the rest of us run
Rest of us run
CHORUS
Presidential directive fifty-nine
Effectively laying it on the line
City trading's not too degrading
It's much cheaper than invading
Close the window
And bolt the door
They've got a lot
We need more
Sandbag the roof
Lie down on the floor
Don't ask how they're bought
Don't ask what for
Ask what for
* Caspar Weinberger - '82 Secretary of defensee
Cost/Benefit Analysis download MP3 Based on our hypothesis
Projections seem to indicate
The death of love
A reign of hate
Given the forgoing
Drawing some conclusions
In an age of wonder
Life is an illusion
A need to cry
A way to feel
The will to try
For once for real
Risking rejection
Trying to touch
To make a connection
Alone enough
CHORUS
Living a life
Behind walls
Walls we build
Walls because
Of the pain
Now and before
A fragile faith
An open sore
Judging from current trends
We can assume
We have no friends
In the gathering gloom
Relying on the data
We know no one cares
No one matters
No one dares
Coping with depression
Unconscious insistance
Hoping for suggestions
Subconscious submission
Accepting rejection
Reducing resistance
Selective deception
Antiseptic existance
CHORUS
Past perception
Infinitely wise
Dealt with deception
Tramatized
Passionate actions
Lacking compassion
Life without love
It's out of fashion
Without exception
So isolated
Personal freedom's
A bit over-rated
Finding fear
Living out lies
Shedding no tears
And then we die
Too
Too hard to hate
Too late to learn
You never could wait
You start to burn
With fire
With desire
For a life
You thought you knew
You dreamed
You wanted
Too young to know
Too old to care
Too sure to show
You wouldn't dare
Too cold to cry
Too lost to love
Too dead to die
You've had enough
Their lies
Alibies
Of a life
They thought they knew
You dreamed
You wanted
Too hurt to feel
Too proud to please
You know the deal
Some social disease
Too loud to hear
Too blind to see
Too scared to fear
Too bored to be
Their fire
Their desire
Of a life
I thought I dreamed
I knew
I wanted
Promised Land
(aka Jonestown, USA) download MP3 Work tape:guitar, vocals and Matel toy drum machine When you love yourself
Above all else
Take your father's hand
Forgive yourself
Give him your wealth
See the promised land
When you forget
How to get
To the place where you live
You can relate
Learn to hate
How not to forgive
CHORUS
Father father
Take my hand
Lead me to
The promised land
Take me far
Away from here
Where there is
No more fear
Take his hand
He is the man
Who will give you freedom
You know you can
Follow his plan
You know you need him
Just give up
Make a step
Do it to please him
Take his cup
Drink it up
You don't need a reason
CHORUS
Jesus loves me
This I know
For the bible
Tells me so
Little ones
To him belong
They are weak
But he is strong
Onward Christian soldiers
Marching off to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before
It download MP3 Work tape:guitar, vocals and Matel toy drum machine They taught it to take
It forgot how to give
It has money to make
It's how the lost live
It claws, it bites
It's vicious as hell
It knows what's good for it
It knows it well
CHORUS
It has learned
Enslaving itself
It has earned
Behaving itself
It forgot how to laugh
It lost the ability
It can't even walk
It's not the agility
It's disabled
No sense of responsibility
It gets cable
Better than senility
Channeled and guided
Programmed and provided
CHORUS
Easy to evacuate
Doesn't have to be told
It's house is immaculate
It hides its old
It's better for them
To be with their kind
They'll be with friends
And out of its mind
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Who
download MP3 Who pulls the strings
Of the puppet man
Who rules as king
In videoland
Who writes the scripts
Furnishes the facts
Has the keys to the crypt
Is quick to act
CHORUS
Thoughts
Won't stop bullets
Whispers Won't heal wounds
Silence is violence
Personal approval
Who paints the pictures
Of the essence of evil
Who quotes the scriptures
Has rights to the sequel
Who plans events
And supplies the arms
Stifles dissent
And sounds the alarm
Who paints the pictures
Of a world aflame
Who are not numbers
Who is to blame
Who closes the door
Cleans the mess
Who keeps the score
Who can guess
CHORUS
Who hears the call
And asks no question
Who feels so small
At the slightest suggestion
Who waits to decide
Deciding to wait
Who will have time
When it's too late
CHORUS
Who pulls the strings
Of the puppet man
Who rules as king
In videoland
Who puts it together
Connects the dots
Forcasts the weather
Ready or not
Who makes a difference
Changes a life
Offers resistance
Gets off its knees
Who can say no
And make it stop
Or turn and go
And put it off
Smart Birds download MP3 Work tape:guitar, vocals and Matel toy drum machine Smart birds know
Where to fly
Smart birds know
Where to go
They don't know why
They just go
Smart birds know
Where to fly
They've more than
Instinct to guide them
They have eyes
Above the sky
Screens to hide them
CHORUS
Get out fast
Far away
Leave at last
Leave today
Fly someday
Evacuate
Find a way
Before too late
Before the shit
Hits the fan
Run for it if you can
if you can
if you can
Smart birds know
Where to fly
Smart birds know
Where to go
And they know why
They will go
Smart birds know
Where to fly
Smart birds are
Watching for when
And they know why
They've seen the plans
CHORUS
(second verse)
Show and Tell
See
See the man
See the man with the gun
See
See the man
See the man on the run
From
From the man
From the man with the gun
We sold the man the gun
And gave him the money to buy it with
So what if he shot some nuns
They were only communists
communists
communists
Hear
Hear the schemes
Hear the schemes of the right
Hear the dreams
Hear the dreams of delight
Hear
Hear the screams
Hear the screams in the night
We sold the man his gun
And gave him the money to but them with
So what if he shot some reporters
They were only communists
communists
communists
See
See the man
See the man with the gun
See
See the man
See the man on the run
From
From the man
From the man with the gun
We sold the man the gun
And gave him the money to but it with
So what if he shot some nuns
They were only communists
communists
communists
Hear
Hear the schemes
Hear the schemes of the right
Hear the dreams
Hear the dreams of delight
Hear
Hear the screams
Hear the screams in the night
We sold the man his army
And gave him the money to but it with
So what if he shot some farmers
They are ALWAYS communists
communists
communists
Modern Medicine
They clean me
They preen me
Dressed for slaughter
They told me
They sold me
I'm on the alter
He washes his hands
And dons his robes
He is the man
The man who knows
He has the skills
Only money can buy
He can kill
I can die
All the young doctors
Learning to heal
Dealing in drugs
Pushing pills
All the young doctors
Selling surgery
Stand by each other
In an emergency
Oh doctor
Will it work?
Oh doctor
Will is cure?
Oh doctor
Will it hurt?
Oh doctor
Are you sure?
They blind me
And bind me
Hook me up to machines
They shaved me
Enslaved me
Made me count to ten
Oh doctor
Will it hurt?
Oh doctor
Will it cure?
Oh doctor
Will it work?
Oh doctor
Are you sure?
Nouns and Verbs
A young prophet stood on the stage
Gripping the mic in a fit of rage
Speaking vaguely of specific things
A young prophet started to sing
Mouthing words given to him
By powers that be-he's speaking of them
He hopes you hear what he's trying to say
He knows the fear you live in today
CHORUS
Words can change how you live
Words too strange to forgive
Is it true-that truth shall set you free
Is it for you? Is it for me?
Words like water
Needlessly spoken
Words like glass
Endlessly broken
Words like lovers
Long lost and forgotten
Words like wounds
Festering and rotten
Meaningful words spoken too often
Mesmerize the herd-better not then
Truth hides in dreams of doubt
Christ tries, but they won't let him out
Information transfer-feelings into words
Supplying answers-nouns and verbs
Carrying water in our hands
Lambs to slaughter-death on demand
CHORUS
A young prophet stood on the stage
Gripping the mic in a fit of rage
Speaking vaguely of specific things
A young prophet starts to sing
Even if it was all that clear
It would be only what you want to hear
There are things you don't want know
Your going blind and you've got to go
CHORUS
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