Cancer Of The Heart lyrics
Song information
Artist: Skyclad
Album: Vintage Whine
Lyrics
There's a simple diagnosis for this vicious symbiosis
Feel the growth of rogue psychosis
We are the cause - we are the cure
Across each continent and nation
Spread without discrimination
We refuse our medication - yet inject the virus pure
Father, mother, sister, brother. everyone infects each other
Insidious, incestuous love ?
(A feeling more akin to hate)
Vying constantly for power
And changing sides with every hour
In homes built with machine-gun-towers
(The sights trained on the garden-gate)
Seems we made our greatest error when we named it at the start
For though we called it "human nature" - it was cancer of the heart
[Chorus]
To show compassion makes you weak
So don't dare turn the other cheek
Try hard to hide the fear you feel
With a heart of stone and nerves of steel
A naked-ape in the human zoo
You amaze me with the things you do
I watch your pride before the fall
And realise I don t belong at all
We try to leave the past behind us
Racing onwards - blind and mindless
Now the milk of human kindness won't serve for one cup of tea
We sate the hunger - quench the thirst
Then lock our doors - expect the worst
Be sure and always do to others first what they could do to thee !
It's the biggest contradiction - in terms language could impact
Something neither humane or natural - just "cancer of the heart"
[Chorus]
To show compassion makes you weak
So don't dare turn the other cheek
Try hard to hide the fear you feel -
With a heart of stone and nerves of steel
A naked-ape in the human-zoo
You amaze mo with the things you do
I watch your pride before the fall
And realise I don't belong at all
It's replicating culture sprawls when you see red as 'rose-bengal'
The anti-body's common sense - intolerance it's best defence
Microscopic minds can't diagnose the cause before
The symptom shrows
A grave threat to the rational health -
(Be your own physician - heal thyself!)
Seems the biggest contradiction-in-terms language could impart
Something neither humane or natural -just'cancer of the heart'
[Chorus:]
To show compassion makes you weak
So don't dare turn the other cheek
Try hard to hide the fear you feel -
With a heart of stone and nerves of steel
A naked-ape in the human-zoo
You amaze me with the things you do
I watch your pride before the fall
And realise l don't belong at all
[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]
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