Credo

I watch the TV every night

I stay awake by satellite

I hope and pray the nightmares

Stay away today

An oily shroud on a coral reef

A black cloud's hanging over me

When I hit on the remote

The programs stay the same

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An assegai slick with sweat and blood

A shotgun barks at a rabid dog

A shallow grave hugs a highway

Beneath a bleaching sun

When cancer sucks a young girl's breast

When a company chains a young man's soul

When the coal dust stole

My granddad's breath away one day

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Credo credo credo credo

It don't mean nothin' it don't mean nothin'

It don't mean nothin' it don't mean nothin' to me

A tattered tramp tacks a windy wind

To close a crowded circle a brazier's light

A man becomes a mountain

In the falling snow

A mother screams and a baby cries

The memory gone before the blood has dried

A needle pricks the conscience

To help it fade away

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Credo credo credo credo

It don't mean nothin' it don't mean nothin'

It don't mean nothin' it don't mean nothin' to me

It don't mean nothin' it don't mean nothin'

It don't mean nothin' tell me it don't mean nothin' to me

The more you scream the less you hear

Or that's how it used to be

But I just can't tell the difference

Anymore these days

The open lips of an altar boy

A planet spins in a silent void

The options are ever fewer

On the ground these days

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Credo credo credo credo

It don't mean nothin' it don't mean nothin'

It don't mean nothin' it don't it don't

It don't mean nothin' to me to me

It don't mean nothin' to me

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I watch the TV every night

I stay awake by satellite

I hope and pray the nightmares

Stay away today

An oily shroud on a coral reef

A black cloud's hanging over me

When I hit on the remote

The programs stay the same

A mother screams and a baby cries

The memory gone before the blood has dried

A needle pricks the conscience

To help it fade away

Don't you fade away

Fade away fade away fade away

Don't you fade away don't you fade away

Fade away fade away fade away