Skyclad

Cancer Of The Heart

Skyclad


There's a simple diagnosis for this vicious symbiosis 
feel the growth of rogue psychosis 
we are 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 

[CHORUS] 

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 impact 
something neither humane or natural - just "Cancer of the heart" 

[CHORUS] 

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 mo with the things you do. 
I watch your pride before the fall, 
and realise I don't belong at all. 

It's 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 shrows. 

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 or natural -just'Cancer Of The Heart' 

[CHORUS:] 

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 l don't belong at all.

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