WHAT WE DO IS SECRET

The Germs lyrics

(UNTITLED 1975 LYRICS)

Astrio was from a planet blue

He spoke of love for me and you

He could set your mind ablaze

With sparkling eyes and visionary care

He stood like a remnant from an outbreak past

Wore a ring in his ear and boy was he fast

Had hair like a rocket's nest

But when he cheered he gave his best

He made a noise that stirred our souls

Got us moving out of control

When Astrio moved he changed our tunes

The filled his arms with needles bare

Shot him up and cut his hair

Tied him to an evil plot

Told the kids that he was not

their man

He gave us life and dealt us love

Sold us out for the great above

He was

On a starry night in mid-December

Astrio cried you might remember

Live it to the end

Share it with a friend

Deny me not

Cause now you're caught

I'll be with you in the thought

Beyond

FORMING

Rip them down Hold them up

Tell them that I'm your gun

Pull my trigger I am bigger than...

Mr. Prez in his big white house

Listen he says we're coming out

Infiltration - we're numbing your minds

Concentration - we've done time

Over there the queen she says

Let's stamp them out and dry those tears

Saturation - we want it in taxes

Flagellation - we've got gashes

In the cold, the czar's claimin'

Just protectin' rockets aimin'

Alteration - the Earth is changin'

Observation - we want action

I the Emperor proclaim

Us the masters we rule this game

Inclination - somethin to dream on

Deprivation - we are sons

SEX BOY

I take it anywhere, any time that I can

I'm the fucking son of a superman

I got a weapon that's as deadly as life

It's a well trained tool of a master guy

Every day it's the same regime

A dozen boys are on my scene

Say sex boy will you come into my hand

They're all on the floor, I better do what I can

Take a number, it's supply and demand

Any time that I can

I put my knife into your gut

You gotta be above when you wanna make love

Say it exactly, sex boy, such a sideshow poster

After such a sweet sweet slut

Any time that I can

I'm the fucking son of a superman

I know what it takes

What in the time I can and can't do

I know what it takes to satisfy you

I know what it takes

That's why your time is due

in the house of fortune

I take it out and you know

it's gonna come from behind

Just like you, and you, and you, and you

GET A GRIP

I'm the only thing you need

I'm so real you can feel me bleed

I'm the coat you left behind

I'm the one you'll never find

Get a grip, get a grip on me

On the streets another thing

I'll push your knife and pull your string

Put your thoughts into my mind

I'll show your things of another kind

Get a grip, get a grip on me

SUICIDE MACHINE

Just a pill and a dream

Died yesterday

Put a gun in his mouth and blew his way out

Just a pill and a dream

It's a suicide machine

She danced all night to the storm in her mind

She waits in the gutter

Someone she'll never find

Just a sill and a scheme

It's a suicide machine

She cried about the world

She slit her throat to fight it

Someone had told her she'd had it

Just a sill and a scheme

It's a suicide machine

Bobby had lost his secret identity

He saw his masculinity in a glass of Bordeaux

Just watch the show

It's a sparkler to his child eyes

It's a suicide machine

You find his wish

Get yourself some ammunition

Click!

It's a suicide machine

LEXICON DEVIL

I'm a lexicon devil with a battered brain

And I'm lookin for a future-- the world's my aim

So gimme gimme your hands

gimme gimme your minds

Gimme gimme your hands

gimme gimme your minds

Gimme gimme this

gimme gimme that

I want toy tin soldiers that can push and shove

I want gunboy rovers that'll wreck this club

I'll build you up and level your heads

We'll run it my way cold men and politics dead

I'll give you silver guns to drip old blood

Let's give this established joke a shove

We're gonna wreak havoc on this rancid mill

I'm searchin for somethin even if I'm killed

Empty out your pockets

you don't need their change

I'm giving you the power to rearrange

Together we'll run it to the highest prop

Tear it down and let it drop... away...

NO GOD

I've read every book in the Bible Story

And all it ever brought me was another worry

Don't want God, give me a jury

See - there's no God to make up my mind

No God givin me time

I peered in every window where I saw a cross

But I could never see just what they saw

In that piece of plaster on the wall

See - there's no God to fear

No God to hear your cries

I'd pray to anything out there

If only I was given some sign to bear

But while I wait I'm gonna live

See - there's no God to watch over me

No God for human beings

When I was small I obeyed his every word

Handed down to me by some thoughtful blur

But now I am as big as he

See - no God bigger than I

No God frightening me

In my image I made he him and I gave him life

So he burned me, the creature has risen and I

Think you can see just what it is that's drivin

Me around round

We are the church we are good

and we've got your millions

God knows we should

CIRCLE ONE

I'm Darby Crash

A social blast

Chaotic master

I'm Darby Crash

Your meccas gash

Prophetic stature

I'm Darby Crash

A one way match

Demonic flasher

Deep, deep, deep, in my eyes

There's a round, round, round, circle of lives

It's a tame, tame, tame sort of world

Where you're caught, bought, taught, as it twirls

I'm Darby Crash

A social blast

Chaotic master

Snap, crackle, pop

Snap, crackle, pop

Snap, crackle, pop in here

Snap, crackle, pop

Snap, crackle, pop

Snap, crackle, pop out there

MANIMAL

I came into this world like a puzzled panther

Wanting to be caged

But something stood in the way

I was never quite tamed

I crossed the pasths of right and wrong

And saw them take their toll

I saw armies that marched

And like animals they crawled

Evolution is a process too slow

To save my soul

But I've got this creature on my back

And it just won't let go

If I am only an animal

Then I can do no wrong

But they say I'm something better

So I've gotta hold on

DRAGON LADY

You walk to the temple on the boulevard

You know the way in cause you're the son of God

She opens the door with a sardonic glance

You drop to the floor making your plans

It's a real cool parody

That's my dragon lady

In a low society with no variety

She lives a tongue in cheek dream

There's something in her eyes that nature denied

She's a whirlwind creature of cultural ties

A preacher of schemes and self denial

She talks up a storm with news and belial

To live in Brahman tragedy

Driven it seems by fantasies

A life like this is sad to see

A smile kept quite in reverie

The clock on the mantle hands stop crossed

The rug on the floors a resting place for the dust

The talk of the town yet she's never been seen

A loving relation with a well trained machine

STRANGE NOTES

Billy Druids face is marble

He keeps every thought in it's place

He lets the days turn tomorrow

Someone's always walking on his grave

He wears the linens just like Garbo

And talks at a saturnine pace

Listening to the strange notes marvel

Only giving what it takes

It's a sad man's world

And for Billy it's sure to crown

Dragging beauty into darkness

Inflicting a pale white frown

And the matter that runs

Through Billy's head

Is too concerned to fail

WHAT WE DO IS SECRET

Standing in the line we're abberations

Defects in a defects' mirror

And we've been here all the time real fixations

Hidden deep in the furor

What we do is secret- secret!

We're influential guys for the D.C.C.

We can lie so perfect

And we've got a party line to every call

It's a very short circuit

What we do is secret- secret!

Licenced to drill with the torch in our lives

Walking on shallow water

Progressed to the point of no distinction

Dementia of a higher order

What we do is secret- secret!

COMMUNIST EYES

I'm looking through Communist eyes

I'm seeing planes in bloodshot skies

I see the flag of a working people

Who conceal the lies in the stars and sickle

It's a double edge

Communist eyes - c'mon inside

I can't ever find the way out

Communist eyes - lost inside

I never get a day out

I'm looking through communist eyes

All I see is an old man's alibi

There's a world outside but I'm unaware

I open my books but the pages stare

It's a double edge

Communist eyes - all so blind

I can't even play the game now

I'm living through Communist times

I wave my flag and hold my head high

I can feel the glory of my comrades in masses

But I'm waiting for the day

when this madness passes

It's a double edge

LAND OF TREASON

Land of treason - waste no reason

we are breathing fire

We're packs of dogs - we're enemies of men

we are not desired

Our faces show - we've grown cold

but have not conspired

Old hearts gone - the suture's on

mother nations mired

I like a receptacle for the chosen dead

we find our bodies clawed

And with the scent of death, we find that

we are not so very awed

Loyalties burned- the words are blurred

overturn your own

Walk the dogs and watch the doors

have your other stone

Stop the toys that march disordered

calculate the thrones

Feel the pulse descending

decaying hallowed tomes

In the starving sense you worship

the nations of debris

You wear a cost of sewage

that you've never even seen

The time is now- the vicious here

a stolen dinner code

The licence of the savage land

that you've always sold

So bite the hand that needs you

and bless another coal

The virus never issues

from a cotton so very old

As the lights come down and the guilty blaze;

another sort of road

You wash your hands and start to climb

the ladder that you stole

Slip the latch- and spin the sword

the money lords are poor

Push the tank- that rolls downhill

their sense of doom absorbed

Still the cat that breaks the night

tie him to the core

Chase the virtue that believes

that what's right is scored

It's a senseless cash in of right for right

what's wrong is never gone

And left is just a bastion

for the fools golden dawn

14. RICHIE DAGGER'S CRIME

I'm Richie Dagger

I can stomp and swagger

I can take on all your heroes

I'm Richie Dagger

I'm young and I'm haggard

The boy that nobody owns

He sits in his corner like a child despised

A crazy sort of cast comes over his eyes

That's Richie Dagger's crime

He's the sort of boy who was never much loved

His idea of fun was society's grudge

That's Richie Dagger's crime

His life was a mess

And his friends weren't quite the best

But he was satisfied

That's Richie Dagger's crime

Suck me in and spit me out

Devour me in haste

He could set your mind ablaze

With sparkling eyes and visionary case

He stood like the remnant of an outbreak past

Wore something in his ear and

Boy was he sass

AMERICAN LEATHER

Looking for a way out

I put my foot out of line

Really like to break-out

I feel so confined

American leather

The poinsous members

Not alone-not together

Their American leather

Saw you on a dark road

Brought myself along

Got a sense of conflict

But I know what's wrong

I know that kinda feeling

So I built my place up high

But you'll never find me kneeling

Cause I'm too occupied

OUR WAY

Clara would be proud to know us

We've taken it to the end

Where the grey turns to black

And the white just begins

We live every day on the water

The night just kills the pain

From the suffering that was

We are no stronger - We are dust

Down in the crowd we're down on our knees

Wanna get out but don't wanna suceed

We're the red-eyed legends of the night before

We're the dead mind babies of the TV war

Living in a rectory of sin

Against the current we all swim

Cageless wonders of sometime when

The paper lion's chase will end

WE MUST BLEED

It's Sunday and the streets aren't clear

The traffic's screaming but we can't hear

The sounds.. the metals.. driving us mad

We must bleed We must bleed

The crash as the bottle breaks

Flashes its will through my veins

The pain.. the colours.. making me sane..

We must bleed We must bleed

I'm not one, I'm two

I want out now

Now now now now

MEDIA BLITZ

I've got television

I've got supervision

No decisons for you

Media blitz - Media Blitz

Immediate hits - We rule

Don't steal your eyes off the TV screen

Can you realize we're what we've seen

Take an injection from the mad machine

Don't read the papers read between the lines

We're vision rapers and we seed the signs

You'll play your part in the master mind

We feed the science We deal in riots

We play by ideal time We're a gov'ment fix

All social convicts Watch the idle rhymes

Bleed your heart out-that's all it's worth

Before you ever start - we planned it first

Forget the truth - accept your curse

CAUGHT IN MY EYE

Through your dark eyes

You can feel my Every sin

When I walk right Into a straight line

This world of yours

I got you caught in my eye, again

You're the fall guy In the corner Of my gloom

It feels like Everything I see Is nothing new

I got you caught in my eye, again

There's a door there That opens Without you

And the door lies

With its open keys To my room

Flames of the torch light Fill my thighs

And I crave fulfill And I consume 'em

But I don't give got you caught in my eye, again

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