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album  : Night Time
groupe : Killing Joke
sortie   : 1985

+ paroles Killing Joke

01- Night Time
02- Darkness Before Dawn
03- Love Like Blood
04- Kings And Queens
05- Tabazan
06- Multitudes
07- Europe
08- Eighties

Night Time

the multitude excites, the flags are flown
by fireside the programme starts
and i am running through this madness
and all the time i can't relate
we sit around in rooms we talk our fears
asking why we should go on
god i try to make ends meet the best i can
playing rhythms out of time
far from the multitudes a few will always stand
they don't fit in they don't belong - move on, move on this way
within disorder i assume my role
laugh and cry as i accept
eternal indolence through ages
'til restless souls begin to wake
perfection within decades of dissatisfaction and disillusion
a means to no end, a means to no end

Darkness Before Dawn

The lore of elders passes judgement on this waste
And finding me or them does lack accepting fate
And as the moments pass another face arrives
We watch them come and go with speed of passing clouds

Forbidden fruits of dreams that rule our thoughts my love
Of lands untouched and ways to come always maybe
But choking on promises meant for the deal
Thinking again the darkest hour before the dawn

Confirming fears that from the dawn of time have been
Retracing footsteps in dark chambers of grey lands
And through the madness through the terror we must pass
As if awaiting sunlight that may never come

In time we face ourselves with all our faults and fears
Now that i know the final conflict is within
I recognise the faces of my friends and hear the call
"Come journey, journey with me through the darkest hour"

Love Like Blood

on our way to the fire dances
let's all stay on our feet so
in the market here we are then
sing a song for sixpence oh!
time keeps ticking - tick tick tock
can't stop now just keep on pushing
i've got a feeling something's changing
i'm gonna find this feeling somewhere
let's all go to the fire dances
take the future in your hands now
let's do this dance forever
teacher teach me something new please
sow the seed god speed the plough
basic ways to simplify me
sun is shining in your favour
push push me till i get there
i'm gonna find the human somewhere
turn the pages time goes backwards
pay the piper to play your tune
you and me in a dance forever
summer nights and music - oh!
fill your cup and don't say maybe
sun is shining in our favour
let's be human - oh so human
on your way to the fire dances

Kings And Queens

Well take it easy
While the world goes crazy
As it's just another day
And we've all been through the mangle
And our pockets are empty
But we'll live like kings and queens
Hear the choirs of noise sing
Take a load off my mind soothe me
Live like kings and queens

Well easy sleazy
In and out and back again
Feel a power running through me
And i'm alive and kicking
I accept submission
To the pleasures of the flesh
And the joy of pain
Satisfy me satisfy
Live like kings and queens

I said: "take it easy
"Sanity has come"
I can never undo
The wrong of the beginning
There's so many hungry
But i'm gonna turn a blind eye
'Cos i've got to live now
Rejoice and kill your heart 'cos i say...
Live like kings and queens

Tabazan

all time was left behind
i made my way to the basic man assembly
music filled the air and voices sing
and then the song became alive
stick hit the skin - i hit the stick
and we've all been keeping time
and all the boys been playing the drums
let's make our way to song and dance - continue
and then the song became alive - song and dance
i've seen a place - set in time
and pillars tall in my sight
then i heard voices sing
sweet in the air [they fell through]
haunting you
and then the song became alive - song and dance
ways we've lost come flooding back now
then my ancestors awake
(then i forgot myself)
and in our joy they take their joy
and in their skills we take our skills
then all the lines between are gone
then all the lines between are gone
stick hit the skin - i hit the stick
and we've all been keeping time
so all you boys keep playing the drums
let's make our way to song and dance - continue
and then the song became alive - song and dance
song and dance - let's make our way

Multitudes

i was born to see two thousand years
of man's effect upon the planet
extinction seems to be a plausible risk
whatever happens well i'm part of all this
my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment to come
taste the salt of my tears
take the wealth of my years
singing in the millennium with you
[resolutions for show]
[old ways don't seem to know]
singing in the millennium with you
fire burn all our uncertainties
water wash away impurities
contradictions and predictions abound
yes i believe that we can turn it around
my life i've been waiting for this moment
my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment
all my life i've been waiting for this moment to come

Europe

Take up your arms pick up your courage
A black sun is rising as the gods of europe sleep
Come back into your strength awaken
Catastrophes atrocities shall summon you my love

Glory glory how we wait in europe

What have they done, what are they doing ?
The place i love so butchered ravaged scarred and raped
The years have passed us still we're fighting
'til once again somewhere green lands shall be in sight

Glory glory how we wait in europe
Glory glory how we watch in europe

The day humanity is over
Let nations east and west tremble at the sight
'til standard bearers' eyes are hungry
And reason dead forever - god let it be soon

Eighties

Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
Eighties - i have to push, i have to struggle
Eighties - get out of my way, i'm not for sale no more
Eighties - let's kamikaze 'til we get there

And we sang
You do it this way

Eighties - by day we run by night we dance, we do
Eighties - i'm in love with the coming race
Eighties - i've got the best, i'll take all i can get
Eighties - i'm living for the eighties

Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i struggle
Eighties - i'm living

Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - push, push, struggle

Eighties - i'm living
Eighties - eighties - i'm living
Eighties - i'm living in the eighties - i push
Eighties - push, push, struggle

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[ paroles originales ]

Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties
Eighties - I have to push, I prostitute myself
Eighties - I saw the whole world getting anxious
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march

And we sang
In these Eighties

Eighties - I'm sitting on a table talking ideals
Eighties - I got the best, I'll take all I can get
Eighties - Here comes the savage day
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march

And we sang
In these Eighties

Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march

Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I push
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march
Eighties - I'm living in the Eighties - I struggle
Eighties - I saw the worlds begin to march