Crass - What The *****? Lyrics
chorus)What now? Now you would destroy the earthDry, the river bedsWhat now? Now in your control, birth and deathDry, the bodies, incandescent in the heatYour fire is melting both soil and soulIn plan maybe, is that not enough?Your war and raving of it is so totalYou're consumed by it as you'd consume usWould you see the fire from your sanctuary of death?What terrible pain you need to hideIn your hatred you'd seek to destroy the earthWhat is it that you have been denied?Your mind and its rantings are so barrenWhat the ***** are you thinking? What the *****?Your eyes and their vision, empty, staringWhat the ***** are you seeing? What the *****?So singularly your motives, yet impossible to defineHow finely lined my destiny in the cobwebs of your crimeSo insular your future, so alien your planTake all of this if you will and take what I canA town that is no more"My God", you say, "What have I done?"But you won't heed what's gone before"What pity?", you say, "There is none"And so you drive the world to warBut this war will not be lost or wonThe desolation that you've seen but never sawIs the lesson that you teach, but never learnBut would you see the fire in the world where you exist?Will your hard eyes register the pain?Are you so cold that there is no distress?Where there's death would you give death again?No flowers in your landscape, some withered roseKicked amongst the corpses where they layHalted where all hope died, frozeBy the horror of your acts compelled to stayUnnoticed all this in your lusting after deathHow determined that your darkness should be sharedUnnoticed in your blindness this miracle of breathWhat element of beauty attracts your cruel desire?Would you see the burning? Is that your delight?Would you have me see it in your stead?Would you feel my yearning? Peace, life, lightBody, breath. Would you take all this?What is it that you're seeking, so cold and so deprived?What is it that you dream of in your empty eyeless head?Why must I share your lust of death?Can you not die alone? Why must I share your fear of breathLife, light, PEACE
