Wounded Land Lyrics (1993)

Threshold Wounded Land Lyrics Album

Wounded Land Lyrics Album by Threshold

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1. Consume to Live

Living in the greenhouse
Growing crops that we can’t eat
Making money out of poverty
Turning forests into meat
We got our fingers on the trigger
Of some suicidal gun
The population’s getting bigger
Underneath a dying sun
There’s a fire in the furnace
And there’s nothing left to burn
Buried waste has reached the surface
Is there nothing left to learn?

Every day ozone getting layered
Every way life is getting worse
Everybody’s lung is getting cancer
Everyone has something more to lose
Every country armies are rising
Every gene splitting into two
Every breath monoxide getting stronger
Every sea whales are beached

Economies are growing
Subsistence life is dead
We can’t sustain this growth
And things are coming to a head
We gotta learn to climb down
The ladder of success
With two feet on the ground
We gotta clean up all this mess
There’s a fire in the furnace
And there’s nothing left to burn
Buried waste has reached the surface
Is there nothing left to learn?

Every life extinction is forever
Every town riots in the streets
Every sky greenhouse is affecting
Every tree dying in the breeze
Every plant chemical pollution
Every song relying on the beat
Every lake water getting shorter
Every heart aching for release

Aching for release
Aching for release
Aching for release
Aching for release

Surviving in a world of mass production
We must all consume to live
Our working lives to give
And join the unemployment lines
When confidence is low
Confidence is low
Confidence is low
Confidence is low

A man must try to sell
His labor to the highest bid
Keep his anger hid
And try not to get pulled
Into the vicious undertow
Vicious undertow
Vicious undertow
Vicious undertow

But even in the middle classes
They fall into that hole
Aspiring to the goal of rising
From the yoke of such an exploitative state
Exploitative state
Exploitative state
Exploitative state

Consume to live
Consume to live

2. Days of Dearth

Modern man has turned his back
On old philosophies
Lost the spiritual universe
And gained reality
Worship money, scientists
And grim normality
What use are logic, power
And wealth with no society?

Scan the mind stand by earth
Give it time your rebirth

When forests become desert
And the seas are filled with slime
Rivers wash the soil away
We still ignore the signs
We must rely on instincts
We’ve left buried in our heads
Will rich men eat their money
When they’ve killed the world stone dead?

Stand behind the boy king’s curse
Now we find days of dearth

Days of dearth
Days of dearth
Days of dearth
Days of dearth…

3. Sanity’s End

He’s just another victim of the system’s bloody knife
A problem evader, an escapee of life
A temporary soma not yet prescribed
Has stripped him of ego with each lungful imbibed

Get your mind-set altered here
I will provide you with some fantastic gear
Up down sideways forward and back
Our children submit to lysergic attack

Hiding in tantric mesmerized trances
As the warehouse lightshow flickers and dances
Synapses snap as his madness advances
Leaving him open to paranoid fancies

Lost in the garden of fantastic mind
I’m leaving my ego and body behind
Trails of false images hang in the air
The smell of strange colors are heard everywhere
Over the rainbow and into the light
I’m orbiting slowly, I’m high as a kite
Can’t remember my name anymore
Everything’s changed since I opened the door

Get out demons get out controlling my brain
Freak out healing freak out going insane
Hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
Reach out reeling reach out calling my name

For twenty-four hours time has no meaning
But several days later kicking and screaming
With delusions of grandeur and one o’clock fit
A family signed section has me caught in the net
Can’t seem to regain control of my fears
The world’s receding and leaving me here

Get out demons get out controlling my brain
Freak out healing freak out going insane
Hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
Reach out reeling reach out calling my name

A shot of the hard stuff
Makes him tranquil and straight
No danger to public, himself or the state
Under sedation he won’t shed no tears
Inwardly tortured by demonic fears
Can’t remember my name anymore
Everything’s changed since I opened the door

Get out demons get out controlling my brain
Freak out healing freak out going insane
Hit out feelings hit out cannot explain
Reach out reeling reach out calling my name

Ravers, gyrators heaving with sweat
Have you tried any good ecstasy yet?
If you don’t wind up sleeping in gardens of stone
You’ll be a new person if you ever get home

For the sake of your sanity, family and friends
Leave subconscious traveling to gurus and men
Who’re prepared for the journey
With no beginning or end
‘Cos a mind that is broken is a hard thing to mend

4. Paradox

He makes big generators
Chewing up the atmosphere
He learns the secrets of nature
Then destroys her without fear

See him burning the fruits of his labors
And with joy in his heart digs the graves
Of those that he’s trying to save
Oh, self destruction’s his aim
See the soil turn to dust
See the steel turn to rust
Killing all those he loves
Thanking god up above

The paradox of man
The paradox of man
He has colossal power
But he’s helpless as a lamb
He’s a mass of contradiction
The paradox of man

And he envies the power of his neighbors
And he still fails to see he’s become his own
Worst enemy
Oh, will he ever learn?
See the truth turn to lies
See the greed in his eyes
Wasting all that remains
His soul trapped in chains

The paradox of man
The paradox of man
He makes big generators
Chewing up the atmosphere
He learns the secrets of nature
Then destroys her without fear

Soil turn to dust
Can his power ever last?
The chains of his gain
Reveal secrets of his past
Bitter is his greed
But man will never pay
Oh, lead me through
Lead me through the faults of his rage

He has colossal power
But he’s helpless as a lamb
He’s a mass of contradiction
The paradox of man
The paradox of man
The paradox of man
The paradox of man
The paradox of man

5. Surface to Air

(Part 1 – ‘Conception’)

I am me, I am real
Free to take part in the game
But I don’t qualify
I never helped to write the rules

And if you see me acting strange
Please don’t hurt me with your scorn
I will not comply
It’s been the same since I was born

(Part 2 – ‘Realization’)

The wisdom of the mystics is the devil’s own disguise
His fingers flick the tarot deck
Keep weak ones mesmerized
What twisted minds would hide
Behind the cult of living death?
Man and nature so defiled white dove with hawkish head

What a true man feels defines the world’s disease
After centuries his blindness can’t be healed
What a true man feels defines the world’s disease
After centuries his blindness can’t be healed

The disappearing sands of time are leaving us no trace
What deity would best describe the mighty human race
Has vanity dressed up our god in likenesses of man?
When selfishness and greed and lust are all we understand

What a true man feels defines the world’s disease
After centuries his blindness can’t be healed
What a true man feels defines the world’s disease
After centuries his blindness can’t be healed

What a true man
What a true man feels

(Part 3 – ‘Resurrection’)

I can’t philosophize with you
When you don’t see the things I do
You don’t think beyond the fringe
Of this tiny world you’re in
See me dancing on clouds, hear me thinking out loud

True believers, Jesus freakers, heaven in your hand
Self relying, sanctifying, help me understand
Eye of the needle, free the people in the desert land
Meek inherit, they won’t share it, rulers of the sand

Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah
Oh yeah…

6. Mother Earth

Between the tumbling of the mountains
And the vastness of the sky
Lurks a power that we all dream of
None of us knows why
She flies into a temper
Every time she comes awake
Lead us not into destruction
With the mess that we now make

Oh Mother Earth don’t seal our fate
I’m still standing in the light of day

She’s the great benign she-wolf
Who gives breath to every life
She’s a builder and destroyer
But she will not be sacrificed
She flies into a temper
When thunder rapes the skies
Our mother and protector
Through the interstices of time

Oh Mother Earth don’t seal our fate
I’m still drowning in the ultraviolet rays

But in the temples
Where the children play
They’ve split the atom
Turning night-time into day

Oh Mother Earth don’t seal our fate
I’m still standing in the light of day
Oh Mother Earth don’t seal our fate
I’m still standing in the light of day
Oh Mother Earth

7. Siege of Baghdad

Burning the sands alight way into the air
Dark black clouds obscure the sky, a twilight of despair
And Babylon is overrun by armies of the lord
Who cleanse their souls in holy wars
And sing in praise of sword

The mighty cross of Jerusalem
The crescent moon of Troy
Saracens and noblemen
A sport they all enjoy

Churning black, the seas awash environmental doom
Oil wells are set alight, obscure a darkling moon
Euphrates valleys overrun by armies of the West
Sent by god to claim their prize
A black gold treasure chest

The mighty cross of Jerusalem
The crescent moon of Troy
Saracens and noblemen
A sport they all enjoy

From the cradle of civilization
Springs the mother of all wars
A U.N. team of investigation
The breaking of all human laws

We will never finish what we started
And break the tyrants’ rule
Just like all those old time crusaders
We’re the only fools

Evil takes what evil needs
And there ain’t no middle way
Just like all those Christian martyrs
We’re the ones who’ll pay

Join the new crusade
Join the new crusade
Join the new crusade
Join the new crusade…

8. Keep It with Mine

How can you worry?
We’ve got so much time
The world can keep on spinning
But the sun will always shine
If you walk around with both your eyes open
Don’t let them know your heart is broken
Just keep it with mine
Just keep it with mine

You may be tired, but you’re not so very old
We can make changes
To the course of this road
If you’re keeping your heart and mind open
And never stop wishing and hoping
Our children depend on us all
Let’s teach them to answer the call
Time is running fast, but we’re learning at last
Let your heart always shine
And keep it with mine
Keep it with mine
Keep it with mine

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