
Date of issue: 03.12.1999
Record label: Global
Song language: English
Cancer Of The Heart |
There’s a simple diagnosis |
For this vicious symbiosis |
Feel the growth of rogue psychosis |
We’re 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 |
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 impart |
Something neither humane nor natural |
Just cancer of the heart |
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 |
Its 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 shows |
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 nor natural |
Just cancer of the heart |
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 |
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