The Almighty - 1993
"Powertrippin'"
Track List:
1. Addiction
2. Possession
3. Over The Edge
4. Jesus Loves You...But I Don't
5. Sick and Wired
6. Powertrippin'
7. Takin' Hold
8. Out Of Season
9. Lifeblood
10. Instinct
11. Meathook
12. Eye To Eye
Line-up:
Ricky Warwick : Lead vocals/Rhythm & acoustic guitars
Pete Friesen : Lead/Rhythm guitars
Stumpy : Drums, percussion & sandpipe
Floyd London : Bass guitars & backing vocals
Additional material on Limited copies of 'Powertrippin'': The entire live set from the 'Donington Monsters of Rock' festival
from 22nd August 1992
Crucify
Full Force Loving Machine
Love Religion
Addiction
Sin Against The Light
Free 'n' Easy
Wild and Wonderful
COMMENTS
The original version of this album had a cover which was copyrighted and so they had to be removed from shelves and replaced with a revised version of the cover (they altered the colour scheme).
1. ADDICTION
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/Friesen]
++++++++++++
You, you're not justified
To take my flesh and blood child
And rape my pride
I, I got a holocaust in my soul
You tried to shape me
But I broke the mould
My beliefs flow like blood from a stone
As I fight to stay within the dream
That rusts inside your soul
(chorus)
Realize what you're giving me
Is feeding my addiction
You, love everything you're shown
It's times these you gotta
Keep us with the Jones's
Entertaining my ideas
I haven't felt this good in years
Shining on your crucifix
The love you preach
Is the hell you kissed
(chorus)
Realize what you're giving me
Justify all your casualties
Realize I'm gonna break these chains
Justify, don't take my love in vain
(chorus)
2. POSSESSION
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/Friesen
+++++++++++++
It doesn't trouble me
So why should it trouble you
Save your roses for the dead
I'll lick the honey from your thorns
I'm feeling up
I'm looking down
My angels beat my devils
Now I'll lay my doubts in waste
What I believe
Is what I need
What I believe
Can't be convicted
By a rhyme without a reason
Someone always loves you
Even if it is yourself
Below my dick
There's neither truth or religion
My indignance has flown
To better things
What I believe
Is what I need
What I believe
Is keepin' my spirit alive
(chorus)
Give me
Give me possession
When will you learn to let it ride
You got no guts
You'll get no glory child
Your rusty soul bleeds Coca-cola blood
And you try to tell me
It's the real thing
What I believe
Is what I need
Is keeping my spirit alive
(chorus)
3. OVER THE EDGE
lyrics : Warwick/James - music : Warwick
++++++++++++++++
Seems like all your heroes
Dance amoung the dead
I used to want to join them
Think I'll live instead
Living seems so easy
Distorted point of view
Why won't you acknowledge
The hell that we've been through and
Change - Change
Change for the better
Change what you feel inside
(chorus)
You're pushin' me over the edge
You're pushin' me over the edge
You lift me up take me to the ledge
You're pushin' me over the edge
Life could be so easy
If you see things my way
Save me from tomorrow
Someday things are gonna have to
Change - Change
Change for the better
Change what you feel inside
(chorus)
Grab a hold of the reins
Suicidal precision
Going down againDead man's intuition
Another book that I almost read
When I flipped to the last page
The hero was dead
Life could be so easy
Reasons to my rhymes
Lovers came to heal me
And left me crucified
Change - Change
Change for the better
Change what you feel inside
(chorus)
You're pushin' me over the edge
You're pushin' me over the edge
You lift me up take me to the ledge
You're pushin' me over the edge
You're pushing me over the edge
Bleeding my soul killing my head
You're pushing me over the edge
4. JESUS LOVES YOU....BUT I DON'T
lyrics/music - Warwick
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
I never wanted
I never needed
I never begged
And I never pleaded
To a god unknown
That I won't let in
Cos religion is business
And there's money in sin
You're blind and offended
When reality hurts
But I've never seen Jesus
Inside a church
And I've prayed
I won't pay to be saved
Buying a brief burst of heaven
Immaculate deceptions
Going on everyday
Still you follow the clowns
Who give the circus away
Reaching for something
That's never been felt
And they're tightening their grip
On your bible belt
Dead eye disciples
Who sin too deep
Jesus loves you
But his love don't come cheap
And you pray
Yeah, you pray to be saved
Buying a brief burst of heaven
I never wanted
I never needed
I never begged
And I never pleaded
Pained by beliefs
Of lies and deceits
When cash must be shown
To this god unknown
And we pray
We're too frightened to stray
Buying a brief burst of heaven
Jesus loves you
But I don't
Jesus loves you
But I don't
Jesus loves you
Kill your idols
Religion induced insanities
Pained by beliefs
Pained by beliefs
That I don't believe anymore
5. SICK AND WIRED
lyrics : Warwick - music : Friesen/Warwick
+++++++++++++++++
I feel uneasy
What you don't know can hurt you
Only lies behind your back
I feel infected, take another blast
Got a rosary of razor wire
And my future tense has passed
(pre-chorus)
There's too much nothing
To be left in so much doubt
Too much nothing's
Something I can live without
(chorus)
I need somebody to use
God i've tried so hard
I want somebody to bleed
Cos I'm so sick and wired
I feel uneasy
A kinda freedom's hard to find
No train of thought on
A one track mind
(chorus)
I need somebody to use
God i've tried so hard
I want somebody to bleed
Cos I'm so sick and wired
I need somebody to use
I get so uninspired
I want somebody to bleed
Cos I'm so sick and wired
Hiding the scars
Of my own intentions
So sick and tired
Of these soul pretensions
(pre-chorus & chorus)
6. POWERTRIPPIN'
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/Munroe
++++++++++++++++
Temptation rising in my soul
I've been counting on my bones
Meet thy maker, time to end
They're playing Jesus Christ again
Gods, guns and gasoline
Coke adds life, conscience clean
T.V. babies, horsepower mind
Shooting up kills the time
(chorus)
I want something real
I need, I feel
Powertrippin'
Get the needle miss the point
Just say no! now pass the joint
Holyroller blown away
H.I.V. C.I.A.
(chorus)
I want somthing real
I need, I feel
Powertrippin'
Shine on
7. TAKIN' HOLD
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/Friesen
++++++++++++++
Reading the bible in a cheap hotel
Am I in Heaven or a decadent hell?
I got the anti-christ on my TV screen
Selling household gods that I don't need
Give me something I can hold on to
This love, hate, love I'm going thru
(chorus)
Taking Hold
Taking it all the way
Taking hold
Taking hold of my beliefs
My culture clashed and it ain't no fun
Today I feel like I need a gun
Now the Woodstock nation's the Pepsi generation
If it kills me I'll find my salvation
I hope to God that my hope won't die
Am I just too low to high
(chorus)
I love the things I used to kill
I hate the way I used to feel
I was lying thru my teeth
Taking hold of my beliefs
(chorus)
8. OUT OF SEASON
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/London/Munroe
++++++++++++++++
Season's changing like my mind
In the room of my wants killing time
You called me up to put me down
Fill my head and I hope I drown
Covering the bruises
With too much gloss
Paying the price
When I can't stand the cost
(chorus)
I'm out of season
Feeling out of place
Out of season
I'm out of faith
Lying back scratching the sky
Wasted but i can't get high
Right here, right now won't let me be
Right here, right now means shit to me
Got no reservations
Living hand to mouth
When feeding on frustration
Means eating your heart out
(chorus)
Driving the needle of my mind
Into the heart of it all
Throwing light on a dark horse
Fire walking thru blazing thoughts
I'm kicking tomorrow into today
Tainted adrenalin drifts away
(chorus)
9. LIFEBLOOD
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/Friesen
++++++++++++
Something's gotta give
Something's gotta give right now
You're so addicted to
Self-righteous indignation
Breaking the back of love
Then you bleed into temptation
Try and understand
That there's a price to pay
If you lust for life
You can't drain away my....
(chorus)
Lifeblood
Coz I'm staying high
Lifeblood
Burning in my veins
I ain't dying to die
Something's gotta give
A turned on revelation
In your blood-shot mind
You wanna save your life
I wanna spend mine
And your daming rivers
Tryin' to kill the flow
Your drowning sorrows
But they're sinking too slow in this
(chorus)
I'd rather die on my feet than live on my knees
One nail drives another deep inside of me
(chorus)
10. INSTINCT
Lyrics : Warwick/James - music : Friesen/London
++++++++++++
A new day rising
And I'm sinking slow
I've been following my instincts
To the corners of her soul
You want it
Need it
Give it
Take it as it comes
Teach me how to fuck
Without the indignation
Gonna lick the flame
Coz I can't resist temptation
(chorus)
You find it hard to swallow
Swallow my pride
It's a love like hell
Crying in her mind's eye
About the damage done
I can't hold back my kingdom
When I know it's gonna come
You want it......etc
Teach me how to fuck
Spare me degradation
If I knew how to relax
I wouldn't need sedation
(chorus)
You want it......etc
Teach me how to fuck
Senseless stimulation
Can desire be fulfiled
In a no win situation?
(chorus)
11. MEATHOOK
lyrics : Warwick - music : Warwick/Friesen
++++++++++++
So come on join the resurrection
Does my conscience bother you
Screwing the world without protection
It's the corporate thing to do
You'd better start believin'
That it's just another dream
Killin' in the name of love
They put you down for freakin' freely
Coz they need someone to blame
So cut the crap and see more clearly
A world of difference is just the same
You gotta give it
You've gotta give it 'til it hurts
They're trippin' on your destiny
(chorus)
Don't fight it
Feel it
Do what you will
I' got a nerve and you're on it
Yeah what I want is what I lack
I hung my hang-ups on a meathook
That I've got buried in your back
(chorus)
12. EYE TO EYE
lyrics : Warwick/Friesen - music : Warwick/Friesen
++++++++++++++
What the fuck is going on?
You've been high and mighty now
For far too long
And I know the reasons why
You saw too many clouds
And not enough sky
Hoe does it feel?
How does it feel?
How does it feel to be a problem?
(chorus)
You stoned me to my soul
Like fucking for virginity
We don't see
Eye to Eye
What will it take to make you see?
That all the bones I picked with you
Belonged to me
So where the fuck are you coming from
If ignorance is bliss
You must be comfotably dumb
(chorus)
*********
(chorus)
You stoned me to my soul
Like fucking for virginity
We don't see
So just go forth and multiply
Coz we don't fucking see
Eye to Eye
Thanks to Roman T. for sending this lyrics.
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