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 Хочется назвать “In This Life” чем-то вроде переходного альбома между вполне ещё тру-металлическим “Fool’s Game” (1989) и тем почти уже фанковым хард-роком, где группа пыталась сделать себе имя. Но на компромиссное решение это совсем не похоже, даже если железная составляющая тут представлена сильнее, чем на последующих альбомах, так что временами опять начинает отдавать наставниками Mordred, Testament. Это - очень талантливая вещица, где уже перевешивают фанковые элементы, ритмические эксперименты, “живой” скретч и семплы. Есть даже попытка сделать что-то вроде хип-хоповой вставки ("Esse Quam Videri"). Однако, парни смачно украшают свои песни и филигранными соляками а-ля Марти Фридмэн, и точёными риффами, которых не постыдилась бы ни одна калифорнийская трэш-банда. Да и технически Mordred выросли со времён “Fool’s Game”. Только приключилась с ними невезуха: тру-металлические фэны не вынесли подобного издевательства над своим вкусом, а потенциальные новые поклонники – не обратили на волне подобных металлическо-фанковых экспериментов на банду внимания, которого она заслуживала. Зато теперь этот раритет можно держать как недосягаемый эталон перед носом всех пластмассовых Linkin Prark’ов и Limp Bizkit’ов. Среди прочих весьма сильных вещей особо отмечу лишь по-мэйденовски драматичную “Falling Away” и прикольную “Downtown”, экспериментирующую с карибскими ритмами. |
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Bring you notoriety
The rules you'll be breaking will be rules for fools and
The pains you'll be taking will be your tools and
Make your own way
In this life
Have to find a way to rise above
The pain and strife
Make your own way
In this life
Have to find a way to rise above
The pain and strife
Piles of bodies and bodies
We see them and
Some that didn't make it
Didn't choose to be them cause
It's hard to make a mark
With a plague of illiteracy
But sitting on our asses is a
Form of complacency that
We can't sit by and tolerate
We have problems to alleviate
Bad education and suppression
The homeless in the street
Are a few of the nightmares that we should
Wake up and greet to
Make your own way
In this life
Have to find a way to rise above
The pain and strife
Make your own way
In this life
Have to find a way to rise above
The pain and strife
In this life, and there's only
One of them
There's a means to an end but
Unfortunately some of them
Destroy the things that we need
Like the creatures in the water and the air we breathe and
Then we wonder whose fault it all was
Well maybe not yours but that's not it cause
We take for granted the things that make our life complete
So open wide your eyes and
Get the fuck out on the streets
Make your own way
In this life
Have to find a way to rise above
The pain and strife
Make your own way
In this life
Have to find a way to rise above
The pain and strife
2. The Strain
Into his flesh the knife cuts
Inside he wants to survive
Surgeons working hard to try to keep him alive
He's only fourteen years old
Beside the bed a cop sighs
Don't think it's fair he's too young to die
Pulse slows and then his heart quits
Doctors try to shock his life back
They're unaware that in the street he sells crack
Bullet hole through the kidneys
The man who shot him understood
If he could turn it round I'm sure that he would
In times of greed and hate
One must evaluate
The cause of all this pain
Social problems stay the same
In times of greed and hate
One must retaliate
The truth is never plain
Understand this is the strain
Tried to reach society's standard
Have wealth makes you a good man
Not in the wrong he just wants to fit in the plan
Teach our kids of wealth and power
If you happen to live on the wrong side
Got to live a life of crime just to keep you alive
Today morality has lost
Everyone's reaching for the top
We can't change the world if a bullet can't be stopped
In this age we've lost all our values
And maybe nothing can suffice
If it's true we'll crush ourselves in a self destructive vice
In times of greed and hate
One must evaluate
The cause of all this pain
Social problems stay the same
In times of greed and hate
One must retaliate
The truth is never plain
Understand this is the strain
Repeat Chorus
3. High Potency
Today's another hopeless day
Downtown surrounds
Cohesive thoughts cannot be made
The light, it fades
I raise my head up to the sky
Don't care, can't fly
The army forces altered me
You pass me by
Chorus
Not hard to see
My system used me
High potency
Interrogated from the government seat
Manipulation
Mind exploited until complete
Hallucination
LSD into my system
CIA experimentation
The real world has slipped away
Illusions never fade
Chorus
Chorus
4. Window
They're making you believe
That what they sell is what you need
Your decadence starts your decay
Bullshit lies is what you've seen
Censorship on the screen
This is your window to the world
You work - you spend
This trend will never end
Why don't you open up your eyes?
The truth - they hide
No doubt the news has lied
Why don't you open up your mind?
Chorus
This ain't what life's about
Dislocate
That ain't the real thing
It's a fake
I don't believe a word
Deviate
Have it your own way
Consuming all we can
Wealth and stature make a man
Unto this screen you are a slave
Images of what is in
Controls your mind until the end
This is your window to the world
You work - you spend
No time to make amends
Into a wonderland you're hurled
The truth - they hide
Of wars when lands collide
Is this your window to the world?
Chorus
Chorus
5. Esse Quam Videri
Faster than the earth is turning
Looking up my eyes are burning
At night alone I'm walking
Black cat clever stalking
In the grotto impatient waiting
Before long I see your face and
Whisper a word of greeting
Secret lover's midnight meeting
Chill wind our bodies biting
Whipping round like bolts of lightning
Full moon to some is frightening
Senses reeling pulses tightening
In your arms passion rising
Looking deep into your eyes and
Body movements hypnotizing
Scratching biting screaming crying
Chorus
As I'm raised out of my body
I'm looking down from above
To be rather than to seem
Eyes meet no word is spoken
Bruised backs and bodies broken
Sitting back the pipe we're token
Bullets shot barrels smokin
Hot sweat our bodies gleaming
In our heat and passion steaming
Laid back to sleep I'm sinking
Of the nights events I'm thinking
Chorus
As I'm raised out of my body
I'm looking down from above
To be rather than to seem
As I'm raised out of my body
I'm looking down from the sky
To seem rather than to be
6. A Beginning (Instrumental)
7. Falling Away
Someone take this cold from me
And let my mind run free it used to be
Easy to deal with the everyday shit
Now it seems I'm all alone to deal with it
Take me away from here
Falling away
Falling away from the fear
It seems too near it feels too real
Have to find out why
And cut this cancer from my life
No one there to hear the inner cry
Only I can watch me die inside
I live alone among a crowded world
I can't forgive myself this weakness
Sets my pride to burn
I can't believe I find a way
To make it through this hell everyday
Slip slipping my reality slips away
Sleep sleeping it seems the only way
Take me away from here
Falling away
Falling away from the fear
It seems too near it feels too real
Have to find out why
And cut this cancer from my life
Chorus
Now it seems there is a way
To shed this pain from
My brain and walk away
I found an ally who is
Strong as I
I need no other to get me by
Inner me inner me I am he
I and I set me free
I, must, control, the pain
Just, for, another day
Take me away from here
Falling away
Falling away from the fear
It seems too near it feels too real
Have to find out why
And cut this cancer from my life
Falling away from the fear
No one to hear the inner cry
8. Killing Time
Two stars collide in space
I see it clear
Stardust upon my face
What should I fear?
That far-off hidden place
I visit there
It makes me feel safe
Stops the despair
Chorus
Help me find my way out
Can't believe you've no doubt
Just killing time - until we meet again
Shattered hopes for the moment we are met
You know you look the same
As my old friend
I can't recall your name
Or where you've been
You cannot take the blame
For thoughts you send
You cannot play the game
Around the bend
Chorus
Help me find my way out
Can't believe you've no doubt
Just killing time - on nothing we depend
Guaranteed disappointment in the end
Repeat Chorus
9. Downtown
Now that I'm feeling downtown
Like never before
Now that I'm folding my fingers
Ready for war
The painted face of disaster
I search for more
Chorus
I light another cigarette
Swallow the poison glossy eyed
Dressed in fire with empty words
It came as no surprise
The people conversating
Beyond all will to listen
The people will stand in lines
With great high walls between them
Coal black hair china white doll skull
With amber slit eyes
Bittersweet with a razor tongue
See through polished lies
The dim light is bathing you blood red
Adrenalin shock
Chorus
Looking through star dust illusions with faraway eyes
Pretending they know and understand
See through the disguise
Chorus
10. Progress
Into the grey sky
Blackness is blown
From this great machine breathing smoke
Hammering pistons
Churning of gears
Furnace of coals remain stoked
Roar of a turbine
Scream of a jet
Man's dream to learn how to fly
Mimicking nature
Study the wind
Travel on air through the sky
Progress comes from the will to learn
Conquest stems from the greed of man
Can't fuse science with hatred
Can't fuse
Advance not with destruction
Proceed defying corruption
Gain ground keep moving forward
Gain ground
Towering structures
Steel and stone
Built on the land that we kill
Burning our forest
Draining our lakes
Forward progression our will
Splitting the atom
Power to threat
Evil we hold in our hands
Frighten our neighbours
Pointing our guns
Until they reach our demands
Progress comes from the will to learn
Conquest stems from the greed of man
Can't fuse science with nature
Can't fuse
Advance not with destruction
Proceed defying corruption
Gain ground keep moving forward
Gain ground
Progress comes from the will to learn
Conquest stems from the greed of man
Can't fuse science with nature
Can't fuse
Advance not with destruction
Proceed defying corruption
Gain ground keep moving forward
Gain ground
11. Larger Than Life
Never happy never pleased
maybe not what you foresee
These cats don't know what's up
Passively observing it all
Put you up on a pedestal
Try to make you larger than life
But how can you be down
With your head high in the sky
Stand my ground
Won't back down
Keep my integrity
Never compromise
Say what I believe
Won't be pacified
Stand my ground
Won't back down
Yes we've been around
Sound surrounding is sick
Staying underground
Not on an ego trip
No we won't pay to play
It puts no food on the table
Except the old promoter
It buys him a billiard table
All these people sucking blood
It's a wonder we don't run dry
But music's in our blood
It's not like they don't try
Stand my ground
Won't back down
Keep my integrity
Never compromise
Say what I believe
Won't be pacified
Stand my ground
Won't back down
Yes we've been around
Sound surrounding is sick
Staying underground
Not on an ego trip
Woman here no money there
But she said she's help me out
I better get some cash some day
Of that I have my doubts
Make me sick make me cry
If you don't compromise
But we have our beliefs
And our pride so realize