AFRICA ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

Undercover operators Crawl around the doors White man in the jungle They’re only making sure T.V. images flicker Mass security The hills are all on fire Like rivers to the sea Like rivers to the sea There’s loss in all directions Our destiny has changed It comes like second nature This legacy of shame Scale the walls and prisons The fear that builds inside Our hearts are filled with darkness We fight against the time In Africa In Africa In Africa In Africa Distorted situation Mass psychology Listen to the radio See the murderers on T.V. A self-destructive master raise All with strings attached The gold mines and the factories Are safe against attack In Africa In Africa In Africa When will we see? … Africa …

AGE OF IRON ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

I followed you To the heart of the night To a world of silence Where the dark meets the light And I called your name And I called your name I can hear the echoes in my brain I can hear the echoes in my brain These empty streets (I followed you) They never end (To the heart of the night) Never rise up, rise up, rise up They just descend Then I called your name (I followed you) And I followed you (And I called your name) Too far to fall Too much to lose Too far to fall Too much to lose No place to run (These empty streets) No place to hide (They never end) I heard a voice call from within And I stepped inside And we prayed for the children (And we prayed for the children) For the beautiful children (For the beautiful children) They closed their eyes and turned away They closed their eyes and turned away Turned away They closed their eyes and turned away

CITY PRIMEVAL ...  written by Marcia Schofield and Phil Shoenfelt

Sooty metal city / sun rises grey /coal dust in the air / smudges of people / drip along the sidewalks / like slug trails glisten / dirty canals / floating iridescent scum / smeared across the landscape / rises metal city / clanging, pile-driven / welded flowing metal /no sparks to stone towers / bleached bones under a steely sky…   When I found you in this part of the city Down here, here, where the sun never shines You were surrounded by the smiles of indifference Wounded, all broken inside   Your parents they told you about the City Primeval You left home, home, for a season in hell And abandoned by the councils and government No place, no place, to ever call your own From station to basement, you gotta keep moving You go around and around and around and around Down and down and down in the City Primeval City Primeval, City Primeval, evil, evil, City Primeval   Dull angry people, stupid with fear Clocks in their veins, the time’s drawing near Sooty metal city, dark jagged towers Teeth to devour souls by the hour The rain that deafens, too botched to change Glistening streets, rivers of souls And the smack and the speed and the pushers you need And all too soon another mouth to feed Is this what you wanted, is this what you need Down down, down, down, down in the City Primeval City Primeval, City Primeval, evil, evil, City Primeval   From station to basement, from the park to the pavement You gotta keep moving, no place of your own Or the councils and government take away your subsistence Then you go down, down, down, down Around and around and around in the City Primeval City Primeval, City Primeval, evil, evil, City Primeval

GENERATION ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

Safe from redemption No place inside This is our future The world outside We search without vision For sanctuary We doubt the existence Of the things that we see Follow this road To wherever it leads you Signs in the night Only there to deceive you Follow this road You’d better follow this road Another walks beside you Another walks behind you Another walks beside you Generation – we’re born again Generation - until the end Generation – what will become? Generation – into the sun Look in those eyes Do you think that they’ll feed you Look in those eyes Do you think that they need you Can you see to the end? Can you see to the end? Another walks beside you Another walks behind you Another walks beside you Generation – we’re born again Generation - until the end Generation – what will become? Generation – into the sun Circle on circle In the heart of the storm The limbs of their bodies Lay broken and torn A silent desertion Now the armies have gone A temple of ashes Both the weak and the strong Follow this road To wherever it leads you Signs in the night Only there to deceive you Follow this road You’d better follow this road Another walks beside you Another walks behind you Another walks beside you Generation – we’re born again Generation - until the end Generation – what will become? Generation – into the sun Into the sun Into the sun Into the sun

GHOSTS OF LOVE ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

Standing at the edge We close our eyes and move on by In the distance moving fast Forms receding never last Never last All the laughter and the tears And all your dreams and all my fears And your secrets and your shame And all your beauty and your pain Take me back again Take me back again Take me back again Take me back again All the laughter and the tears And all your dreams and all my fears And all your demons and your saints And all your beauty and your pain Take me back again Take me back again Take me back again Take me back again Lying on my side In the darkness try to hide But these doubts return again To haunt my mind until the end But these doubts return again To haunt my mind until the end Until the end And the faces I have seen Come back to me – what might have been And the friends we used to know And the lovers we held so close And the friends we used to know And the lovers we held so close Now turn to go Again and again Turn to go Again and again and again…

HINTERLAND ... written by Phil Shoenfelt

You never remember the things you do or say You never remember the stupid games that you play You call it perfection, it's just control You think that it's all true, that's what you're told And all of these dangers you can't ignore You stand in your own world, that's what you're for The streets of the old town where no one goes And no one remembers and no one knows When we're dancing We feel no pain inside It's too late to question why All we feel is all we hide Torn by destruction, now confusion shows Our eyes look between us and the distance grows We're losing emotion, afraid to fall Our feelings betray us and leave us cold When we're dancing We feel no pain inside We will live, we will survive All we feel is all we hide When we're dancing We feel no pain inside It's too late to question why All we feel is all we hide When we're dancing …

INFORMATION ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

You sit alone in the dark You never make your mark Outside history Outside society You're just a moment in time Just a face in a line And it's breaking your heart There's no place to begin And you're trying to break out And you're trying to break in You're just a moment in time Just a face in a line No information for me No information for you No information for free No information, it's true No information Only frustration And there's a look in your eyes Sometimes it seems like despair You don't know where to look You know that nobody cares You're just a moment in time A face in a line You think you're going insane There's so much you could do Is it all in your head? Well, it's up to you Yes, it's up to you It's always up to you No information for me No information for you No information for free No information, it's true No information Only frustration No information for me No information for you No information for free No information, it's true No information Only frustration

LABYRINTH ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

Running in circles Locked in time Under the walls Too tall to climb We were the first To understand We made the rules We made the plans You saw us fall You saw us rise You saw the murder In our eyes You gave us power You set us free We called it Truth We called it Destiny Where are we now Where are we now Where are we now, now Where are we now? We strained your souls With repetition We gave you masks And television We dreamed of an order Pure and true We saw the end We neglected you Disgraced by hate We could not win It's over now Too late to begin We’re caught in illusion Line on line We are the deaf And you are the blind We are the deaf And you are the blind We are waiting for you We are waiting for you We are all waiting for you Where are we now Where are we now Where are we now, now Where are we now …

NEW ASSASSINS ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

A room of empty faces The new assassins stand in a line Waiting for their orders Waiting for their time   How can we go on pretending Day after day? Living our lives in the same way Day after day Day after day Day after day Day after day   The forces of darkness Guide us into decay The room becomes a prison As I dream my life away Dream my life away Dream my life away Dream my life away   Things are getting harder All the time Is there a future Or is this the end of the line End of the line End of the line End of the line End of the line   Dream my life away …

PARADISE ROW ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

I've got to find Something to believe in Living like this Is driving me wild There's nothing left Of the things I've believed in Mistrust and delusion Are driving me crazy Day after day In a world with no values Living like strangers We touch in the dark Go on pretending With nothing to say There's nothing left When I look in your eyes No trace of emotion long gone Sweet love sensation Yielded to lies The moment of truth passed us by Now let it die Drifting around Now my life is a dream Working and working My hands to the bone War and repression And more exploitation Who stands to lose And just who stands to gain By playing the rules of the game Trapped by these words That just keep us apart We fall for them time and again Where will it end? Yeah, where will it end? And all I have Are these memories I do what I have to do To set me free I’m making up for lost time Love is the last thing on my mind Yeah! I've got to find Something to believe in Living like this Is driving me wild Love turns the wheels Keeps your eyes on the road There's nothing left When I look in your eyes No trace of emotion long gone Sweet love sensation Yielded to lies The moment of truth passed us by Bye-bye Now let it die

PARASITES ...lyrics by Phil Shoenfelt / music by Barry Myers

We’re never alone There's someone on our tracks To subvert our ideas And distort all the facts Stay out of here It's someone else’s affair They're building a future Where nobody cares There's too many faces And too many views And too many voices Singing the blues In love with the danger That's all we can feel When love and affection Seem so unreal Singing the blues Keep singing the blues They keep singing the blues Look into to our faces See we're having fun Welcome to the party The party's just begun Look into to our faces See we're having fun Welcome to the party The party's just begun The party's just begun The party's just begun The party's just begun They kill you with pleasure They kill you with pain They kill you with boredom Again and again They kill you in anger They kill you in jest And if you succeed They're gonna love you to death Keep singing the blues They're gonna love you to death

PERSPECTIVE ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

A change of direction, a change of ways Motion in silence through the final days Stand on the outside and wait for the time There’s beauty in danger, only fit for the blind We fight without anger, we feel no pain The final solution, nothing left to gain Nowhere to run to and nothing to hide It's already over, we could never decide We see all the dangers, we stare out ahead Remember the lies, all the things that they said We’re living like strangers, your rules or mine? Parallel lives in parallel time I see the world through your eyes But losing sight in the distance Our bodies are changing Only futile resistance As we run from destruction As we run from destruction As we run from destruction I see the world through your eyes Losing sight in the distance Of the times we remember Though we treasure each instant I see the world through your eyes I see the world through your eyes I see the world through your eyes Through your eyes Through your eyes Through your eyes You were right You were right You were right

SHARPSHOOTER ...written by Barry Myers

"When the man with a 45 meets the man with a rifle, you said, 'the man with a pistol is a dead man.' Let's see if it's true." (from "A Fistful Of Dollars") Sharpshooter! The deadly Sharpshooter Unleashes a blinding white bolt Merging together For one blissful instant The past, present and future Of our design We shed a few tears For a sad farewell But habits are hard to alter Before Sharpshooter sets his sights again Sharpshooter!

SHOOT ...lyrics by Phil Shoenfel / music by Barry Myers

Danger in the East There's danger in the West Nation against nation Who's hardest who’s the best? Zion on the loose Shout “Death!” to the PLO America steps in There's nowhere left to go Fascists in control How long will we survive? Power leads to fear Death and genocide Assassins in the street Gun the heroes down Religion makes them fools Propaganda all around Shoot Shoot Shoot Move your body to the beat Shoot Shoot Shoot There's murder in the street Shoot Shoot Shoot Confusion everywhere Shoot Shoot Shoot There's danger in the air Soldiers of fortune Controlled by the CIA War in Africa Gets closer every day No jobs for the youth Government tell them lies, lies Royal wedding celebration Hunger striker dies Shoot Shoot Shoot Move your body to the beat Shoto Shoot Shoot There's a riot in the street Shoot Shoot Shoot Confusion everywhere Shoot Shoot Shoot There's danger in the air There's murder in the street Move your body to the beat Confusion everywhere There's murder in the street  (Move that body, move that thing…) Move your body to the beat Confusion everywhere    (Move that body, move that thing…) … There's danger in the air Danger everywhere Confusion in the air Danger in the air Confusion everywhere

SILENCE FILLS OUR LIVES ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

I remember it all The Truth and the Beauty, the Word and the Law Present and future, future and past I remember it all from the first to the last When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives Moving in closer, open your eyes See the pain in their faces Loved then abandoned By television, communication Takes away the sensation Takes away the sensation Takes away the sensation We’re losing sensation When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives Held at a distance Stand and watch In helpless anger As language dies in the face of hatred And genocide kills the seed of the future And we're the spectators, losing sensation We're the spectators, losing sensation When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives When silence fills our lives …

TUNNEL VISION ...written by Phil Shoenfelt

Now the end is getting nearer Will I see things any clearer? Is this how it's got to be? Lost in a sea of dead emotion Is this what you call devotion? What do you want from me? I scan your eyes like television Though our worlds are in collision I wonder what it is I see I closed the door, there's no way out Now feel the implosion of suspicion and doubt It's nothing words could say You needed someone to complete you You needed someone to defeat you Now this is the price you pay Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? It feels like we’re sliding back into the funnel Look at what you've done Time has passed, now hold your fire We could speak across the wire This battle never will be won Where is the light at the end of the tunnel? It feels like we’re sliding back into the funnel Look at what you've done Time has passed, now hold your fire We could speak across the wire This battle never will be won

PISSED-OFF MANAGER ...Nat Finkelstein

"Hello... This is Nat calling Brutus, Cassius and the rest of the kids... Just letting you know I'm sitting in my hotel, waiting for the call, and if I don't get the call back, man, the shit's gonna hit the fan... Goodbye..."