Operation: Mindcrime

For a price I'd do about anything

Except pull the trigger

For that I'd need a pretty good cause

Then I heard of Dr. X

The man with the cure

Just watch the television

Yeah, you'll see there's something going on



Got no love for politicians

Or that crazy scene in D.C.

It's just a power mad town

But the time is ripe for changes

There's a growing feeling

That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due



I used to trust the media

To tell me the truth, tell us the truth

But now I've seen the payoffs

Everywhere I look

Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?



Revolution calling

Revolution calling

Revolution calling you

(There's a) Revolution calling

Revolution calling

Gotta make a change

Gotta push, gotta push it on through



I'm tired of all this bullshit

They keep selling me on T.V.

About the communist plan

And all the shady preachers

Begging for my cash

Swiss bank accounts while giving their

Secretaries the slam



They're all in Penthouse now

Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell

I guess Warhol wasn't wrong

Fame fifteen minutes long

Everyone's using everybody, making the sale



I used to think

That only America's way, way was right

But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives

Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies



Revolution calling

Revolution calling

Revolution calling you

(There's a) Revolution calling

Revolution calling

Gotta make a change

Gotta push, gotta push it on through



I used to trust the media

To tell me the truth, tell us the truth

But now I've seen the payoffs

Everywhere I look

Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?



Revolution calling

Revolution calling

Revolution calling you

(There's a) Revolution calling

Revolution calling

Gotta make a change

Gotta push, gotta push it on through

It just takes a minute

And you'll feel no pain

Gotta make something of your life boy

Give me one more vein

You've come to see the doctor

Cause I'll show you the cure

I'm gonna take away the questions

Yeah I'm gonna make you sure



A hit man for the order

When you couldn't go to school

Had a skin job for a hair-do

Yeah you looked pretty cool

Had a habit doing mainline

Watch the dragon burn

No regrets, you've got no goals

Nothing more to learn



Now I know you won't refuse

Because we've got so much to do

And you've got nothing more to lose

So take this number and welcome to



Operation : Mindcrime

We're an underground revolution

Working overtime

Operation : Mindcrime

There's a job for you in

The system boy, with nothing to sign



Hey Nikki you know everything

That there is to do

Here's a gun take it home

Wait by the phone

We'll send someone over

To bring you what you need

You're a one man death machine

Make this city bleed



Now I know you won't refuse

Because we've got so much to do

And you've got nothing more to lose

So take this number and welcome to



Operation : Mindcrime

We're an underground revolution

Working overtime

Operation : Mindcrime

There's a job for you in

The system boy, with nothing to sign



Operation : Mindcrime

We're an underground revolution

Working overtime

Operation : Mindcrime

If you come to see the doctor

Yeah he'll give you the cure



Operation : Mindcrime

Make something of your life boy

Let me into your mind

Operation : Mindcrime

There's a job for you in the system boy

With nothing to sign

They've given me a mission

I don't really know the game yet

I'm bent on submission

Religion is to blame

I'm the new messiah

Death Angel with a gun

Dangerous in my silence

Deadly to my cause



Speak to me the pain you feel

Speak the word

The word is all of us



I've given my life to become what I am

To preach the new beginning

To make you understand

To reach some point of order

Utopia in mind, you've got to learn

To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind



Speak to me the pain you feel

Speak the word

The word is all of us

Speak the word

The word is all of us



Seven years of power

The corporation claw

The rich control the government, the media the law

To make some kind of difference

Then everyone must know

Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow



The system we learn says we're equal under law

But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall

Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown

Educate the masses, We'll burn the White House down



Speak to me the pain you feel

Speak to me the pain you feel

Speak the word (Revolution)

The word is all of us

Speak the word (Revolution)

The word is all of us

Speak the word

The word is all of us

Speak the Word

The word is all of us



SPEAK!!!

She always brings me what I need

Without I beg and sweat and bleed

When we're alone at night

Waiting for the call

She feeds my skin



Sixteen and on the run from home

Found a job in Times Square

Working Live S&M shows

Twenty-five bucks (a fuck)

And John's a happy man

She wipes the filth away

And it's back on the streets again



Spreading the disease

Everybody needs

But no one wants to see



Father William saved her from the streets

She drank the lifeblood from the saviour's feet

She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice

He takes her once a week

On the alter like a sacrifice



Spreading the disease

Everybody needs

But no one wants to see



Religion and sex are powerplays

Manipulate the people for the money they pay

Selling skin, selling God

The numbers look the same on their credit cards

Politicians say no to drugs

While we pay for wars in South America



Fighting fire with empty words

While the banks get fat

And the poor stay poor

And the rich get rich

And the cops get paid

To look away

As the one percent rules America



Spreading the disease

Everybody needs

But no one wants to see

The way society

Keeps spreading the disease

In the wooden chair

Beside my window

I wear a face born in the falling rain

I talk to shadows from a lonely candle

Recite the phrases from the wall

I can't explain this Holy pain



Six days ago my life had taken a tumble

The orders came from high above they say

A need to use me once again they've got my number

Further the cause boy yes you know the game



I'll wait here for days longer

Till the sister comes to wash my sins away

She is the lady that can ease my sorrow

She brings the only friend

That helps me find my way



I search the past back to a time

When I was younger

A target for the new society

Picked to displace the leaders

Countering objectives

Of this new underground reality



Waiting for days longer

'til sister comes to wash my sins away

She is the lady that can ease my sorrow

My love for her

Will help me find my way



My mission saved the world

And I stood proud

My mission changed the world

It turned my life around



I look around my room is filled with candles

Each one a story but they end the same

I'll hide away in here the law will never find me

The walls will tell the story of my pain



Waiting for days longer

Till sister comes to wash my sins away

She is the lady who can ease my sorrow

She sets the pace for my delivery of pain



They'll say my mission saved the world

And I stood proud

My mission changed the world

The underground will rise and

Save this world we'll all stand proud

Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world

We'll all stand proud

[SPOKEN]

[Dr. X:] "Kill her. That's all you have to do."

[Nikki:] "Kill Mary?"

[Dr. X:] "She's a risk, and get the priest as well."



10 P.M., I feel the rain coming down

My face feels the wet, my mind the storm

Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour

Moving silent, through the streets, they're mine, they're

mine



Midnite, she sings praises in the Hall

To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall

Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin

( [Mary:] "What are you doing out in the rain?" )

She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks

( [Mary:] "I've been waiting for you. Come in." )



Mary, Mary just a whore for the underground

They made you pay in guilt for your salvation

Thought you had them fooled? Now they've sent me for you

You know too much for your own good

Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here

My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam

What we need is trust, to keep us both alive

Help us make it through the night



[Mary]

I've no more want of any faith

Binds my arm and feed my mind

The only peace I've ever known

I'll close my eyes and you shoot



No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength from my

lips

I pray I feed you well

Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long

For what you gave to everyone

The priest is cold and dead on his knees he fed

From my barrel of death, he turned the Holy water red

As he died he said thank you

I just watched him bleed



[Mary]

I feel the flow, the blessed stain

Sweating hands like fire, and flames

Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite

The hallowed altar burns my flesh once more tonight



Mary, sweet lady of pain

Always alone

Blind you search for the truth

I see myself in you, parallel lives

Winding at light-speed through time



No time to rest yet

We've got to stop his game

Before madness has the final laugh

Too much bloodshed

We're being used and fed

Like rats in experiments

No final outcome here

Only pain and fear

It's followed us both all our lives

There's one thing left to see

Will it be him or me?

There's one more candle left to light



[Mary]

Don't turn your back on my disgrace

The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds...so deep

The sins of man are all I taste

Can't spit the memory from my mind

I can't cry anymore



Mary, my lady of pain, always alone

Blind you search for the truth

I see myself in you, parallel lives

Winding at light-speed through time, you're mine

[SPOKEN]

[Nikki:] "I've had enough and I WANT OUT!"

[Dr. X:] "You can't walk away now."



I looked back once

And all I saw was his face

Smiling, the needle crying

Walking out of his room

With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream

You'll never get away



Cold and shaking

I crawled down alleys to try

And scrape away the tracks that marked me

Slammed my face into walls of concrete

I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall



Don't ever trust

Don't ever trust the needle, it lies

Don't ever trust

Don't ever trust the needle when it cries...

Cries your name



Wet and raving

The needle keeps calling me back

To bloody my hands forever

Carved my cure with the blade

That left me in scars

Now every time I'm weak

Words scream from my arm



Don't ever trust

Don't ever trust the needle, it lies

Don't ever trust

Don't ever trust the needle when it cries...

Cries your name

Don't ever trust

Don't ever trust the needle, it lies

Don't ever trust

Don't ever trust the needle when it cries...

Cries your name

([Nikki:] "Anybody home? Mary?")

Even in death

You still look sad

Don't leave me

Don't leave me...here

I want what you feel, believe me

Turn the current on

They told me to run, but just how far?

Can I go wearing the black mask of fear?

The hate in my eyes always gives me away

The tension building slowly

Now I lost everything I had in you

Nothing we shared means a thing

Without you close to me

I can't live without you



Breaking the silence of the night

Can't you hear me screaming?

I look for your face in the neon light

You never answer me



There's no direction to my stare

No more flame burning in my heart anymore

Quiet, I keep it to myself

Until the sun sets slowly

I hear your voice in the evening rain calling

Nothing will keep us apart

No more lies and fear

There's no end to our story



Breaking the silence of the night

Can't you hear me screaming?

I look for your face in the neon light

You never answer

I could make all the wrong seem right

If you were by my side

I'd gather all the tears you cried

And hide them deep underground



Can't look back, it's just a waste of time

Can't erase this hate from my eyes



Breaking the silence of the night

Through the streets I'm screaming

Looking for you in the neon light

Why don't you answer me?

Breaking the silence with my cries

Can't you hear me screaming?

We could make all this wrong seem right

But you never answer me

I awoke on impact

Under surveillance from the camera eye

Searching high and low

The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime

Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it

She said she loved me

I guess I never knew

But do we ever, ever really know?

She said she'd meet me on the other side

But I knew right then, I'd never find her



I don't believe in love

I never have, I never will

I don't believe in love

It's never worth the pain that you feel



No more nightmares, I've seen them all

From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move

Every open hand's there to push and shove

No time for love it doesn't matter

She made a difference

I guess she had a way

Of making every night seem bright as day

Now I walk in shadows, never see the light

She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye



I don't believe in love

I never have, I never will

I don't believe in love

I'll just pretend she never was real

I don't believe in lovev I need to forget her face, I see

it still

I don't believe in love

It's never worth the pain that you feel



No chance for contact

There's no raison d'etre

My only hope is one day I'll forget

The pain of knowing what can never be

With or without love it's all the same to me



I don't believe in love

I never have, I never will

I don't believe in love

I'll just pretend she never was real

I don't believe in love

I need to forget her face, I see it still

I don't believe in love

It's never worth the pain that you feel

Empty room today

And here I sit

Chalk outline upon the wall

I remember tracing it

A thousand times, the night she died.

Why? (Why?)

There's no sleep today, I can't pretend

When all my dreams are crimes

I can't stand facing them

Now who will come

To wash away my sins

Clean my room, fix my meals

Be my friend?

[page:] Dr. David, telephone please. Dr. David

Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton



All alone now

Except for the memories

Of what we had and what we knew

Everytime I try to leave it behind me

I see something that reminds me of you

Every night the dreams return to haunt me

Your rosary wrapped around your throat

I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep

I see your face looking back at me



And I raise my head and stare

Into the eyes of a stranger

I've always known that the mirror never lies

People always turn away

From the eyes of a stranger

Afraid to know what

Lies behind the stare



Is this all that's left

Of my life before me

Straight jacket memories, sedative highs

No happy ending like they've always promised

There's got to be something left for me

And I raise my head and stare

Into the eyes of a stranger

I've always known that the mirror never lies

People always turn away

From the eyes of a stranger

Afraid to know what

Lies behind the stare [Lies behind my stare]



How many times must I live this tragedy

How many more lies will they tell me

All I want is the same as everyone

Why am I here, and for how long



And I raise my head and stare

Into the eyes of a stranger

I've always known that the mirror never lies

People always turn away

From the eyes of a stranger

Afraid to know what

Lies behind the stare

Eyes of a Stranger midi