From: mega@lut.fi (Mega the Root of All Evil)
Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll.metal.heavy
Subject: Ministry's "Psalm 69" LYRICS here
Date: 12 Oct 92 17:57:20 GMT
Distribution: alt
Organization: Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
Disclaimer: Death before disco


Lyrics to Ministry's Psalm 69 album.  Included are:

N.W.O.
Just One Fix
TV II
Hero
Jesus Built My Hotrod (approximately)
Scarecrow
Psalm 69
Convulsion


DISCLAIMER:  These are not the "official" lyrics and are certainly not
compelete.  They represent the *best guesses* that we currently have.
If you get some bit of insight into one of the debated or incomplete
passages, feel free to contact either of the two transcribers via email.
We'd be more than happy if you could fill us in!

Alternate interpretations of hotly-debated lines are given in parentheses, 
indented below the current guess.  Anything with a question mark next to
it is uncertain at best, and quite possibly wrong.

Finally, SAMPLES DO NOT COUNT AS LYRICS!! :-)

Whom to contact with ideas/suggestions/changes:

Aaron Giles -- a-giles@uchicago.edu
Andy Quinn -- cybele@hardy.u.washington.edu


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N.W.O.
======

all the locals have the tears of regret
open fire cos i love you to death
sky high, with a heartache of stone
you'll never see me cos i'm always alone

how to love without a trace of dissent
i'll buy the torture cos you pay for the rent
tied high with a broken command
you're all alone to the promised land

i'm in love with this malicious intent
you've been taken but you don't know it yet
what you will know must never live to be found
cos it's been subject to the eyes of the drowned


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Just One Fix
============

blood keeps drinking away
trying to find its destination
driving through new orleans at night
gotta find a destination

just one fix

life keeps slipping away
fighting a war with damnation
poised, keep cutting away
i'm looking in through to salvation

just one fix

like if i boarded a train
trying to take in another station
join us and the choice will be made
unless we kill the lie as a nation

just one fix


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TV II
=====

tell me something i don't know
show me something i can't use
push the button
connect the goddamned dots
live-in thief in my bedroom bathroom
commodity sodomy glass autonomy
promise everything take it all away
give it a rest
you're lying through your teeth
you're lying through your teeth
who what which why who
when did you say the earth would stop turning?
why did you say we would all start burning?
when should i make a pledge?
should i listen to the voices in my head?
connect the goddamned dots
connect the goddamned dots
connect the goddamned dots
who am i trying to impress?
who could care less?
tell me something i don't know


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Hero
====

they get you ready to fight
the fuse is ready to blow
you shoot to kill on sight
they call you g i joe
you never wanted to stop
the smell of burning flesh
the hero marches alone
across the highway of death

it's not a matter of rights
it's just a matter of war
don't have a reason to fight
they never had one before
you're just a killing machine
he's come to take you down
we take the gas that we need
and pump the blood on the ground

they're gonna set you up
so they can take you down
they're gonna suck you dry
they've left the blood to be found
they're gonna rip you apart
you're gonna burn at the stake
cos when it's time to collect
it's only heroes who pay


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Jesus Built My Hotrod
=====================

soon i discovered that this rock thing was true
jerry lee lewis was the devil
jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
all of a sudden, i found myself in love with the world
so there was only one thing that i could do
was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long

ding dang dong dong bing bong
think i think i thought of a ploy
everytime i gotta go without my baby
hear my motor roar
why why why, why why baby
is it some people fear
if i die without family
then i'll go down to hell?

ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
everywhere i go
everytime you tell me, baby,
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

ding ding dong a dong dong ding dong
think i think i thought of a cure
half my time i tell you baby
i'll have it have it on the floor
why why why, why why baby
sickness sickness or a cure?
if i die with a ding standin' on here
they'll well wow now town hell town now now

ding a dong dong dong dong ding dong
ding a ding a dong a dong
everytime you tell me, baby,
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

if i die a ding a ding a ding dong
think i think it's out on the floor
ding a dang dong dong dong ding dong
why why they'll adore
wham bam bang a dang a dang a ding dong
think i think it's unfair
ding, dang, dong dong dong
whoa no!

i wanna love ya!

why why why, why why darling
do you do you tell me to clear?
everytime i gotta go without my baby
now i've downed myself
why why why, ding a ding a ding a ding a
ding a ding a down on the floor
ding ding dang a bong bong bing bong
think i think i thought of a cure

a bip bip bip a bop bop bim bam
ding a ding a during the day
if he died without reason
then we'll know it was him
why why why, why why darling
<crunch> get down low
if i die the lord might tell me
that i lived without a soul

everytime you tell me baby
will i settle down?
got to get me to the park
and haul my weight around
why why why why?

if i die with all our people
think he think he'd call the police
we'll retaliate and no one knows what else
why why why, why why baby
he we go, oh that's easy -- shh!
and fuck me
and fuck me
and fuck me raw!

jesus built my car
it's a love affair
mainly jesus and my hot rod

yeah, fuck it!


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Scarecrow
=========

staring in the face of condemnation
laughter fills the sky instead of rain

live my life alone in resignation
arms outstretched for those who cannot say

scarecrow

crucified and left in isolation
pictures of our lost morality

scarecrow

eyeless stares invite this whole damnation
rotting corpse of inhumanity

scarecrow


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Psalm 69
========

congregation, please be seated and open your prayer guides to the book
of revelations, psalm 69

drinking the blood of jesus
drinking it right from his face
learning to swim in the ocean
learning to prowl in his name

the body of christ looked unto me
a preacher with god-given hands
he wants you to suck up the holy ghost
and swallow the sins of man

psalm 69

the invisible piss of the holy ghost
comes down like acid rain
they're making a bonnet of terminal guilt
the scavengers go on parade

the fathers who write that eternity
is used to fight the sword
have filled you up with the devil's drug
and he'll come in the name of the lord

the way to succeed and the way to suck eggs

stop it!


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Convulsion
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convulsion! convulsion!

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