Time Waits for No Slave

Napalm Death

2009 Released

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Strong-Arm

03 : 04

2

Diktat

03 : 41

3

Work to Rule

03 : 16

4

On the Brink of Extinction

03 : 29

5

Time Waits for No Slave

04 : 26

6

Life and Limb

04 : 00

7

Downbeat Clique

04 : 26

8

Fallacy Dominion

04 : 07

9

Passive Tense

03 : 48

10

Larceny of the Heart

03 : 36

11

Procrastination on the Empty Vessel

02 : 56

12

Feeling Redundant

03 : 23

13

A No-Sided Argument

02 : 13

14

De-Evolution Ad Nauseum

03 : 49

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Track Lyrics

Strong-Arm Lyrics

[Verse]

Pent up and chewed up

At a fleeting glance

Misconstrued in the mood

For assistance

Flames fanned with compliance

We have fallen foul

And forced the striking hand

Indiscriminate and loathe

To now backtrack

See red and fight fast

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Punishment is somehow always due

Somewhere down the line

Until this realisation dawns

Spare the rod

And you'll arise

Spare it

Spare the rod

Spare the rod and you'll arise

Arise

Spare the rod

You'll arise

[Chorus]

A strong-arm is for bleak times

But spare this rod and arise

[Verse]

Pent up and chewed up

At a fleeting glance

Misconstrued in the mood

For assistance

Flames fanned with compliance

We have fallen foul

And forced the striking hand

Indiscriminate and loathe

To now backtrack

See red and fight fast

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Flurries of blows to tenuously prove

Dialogue rarely makes things right

Until this realisation dawns

Talk it through

Gain insight

Talk through

Talk it through

Talk it through, gain insight

Talk through

Talk it through

Gain insight

[Chorus 2]

A strong-arm is for bleak times

But talk it through, gain insight

[Outro]

So spare this rod and arise

Spare this rod and arise

Spare this rod

Diktat Lyrics

[Verse 1]

To have and hold for all eternity

Limitations and ambitions are a pretext to falling short

We'll be doomed, marooned and two fatalities

Anomalies in whispered circles

For pledges we could never hope to fulfill

Hope to fulfill

[Verse 2]

But if it works for you

Then it works because of you

Not a diktat from a guild

For who love is (unflinching) servitude

Castigate or deprecate

They want heads hung in shame

When a union runs its course

For pledges we could never

Hope to fulfill

[Verse 3]

Irrepressible

Irresponsible

Love is the wild-eyed antidote to cold imperatives

Love is the wild-eyed antidote

To cold imperatives

Love is like the last day you'll ever live

[Verse 4]

So why lose that spark

When our paths begin to merge

It's the yoke of absolutes

Those pledges we could never

Blight in compliance

[Verse 5]

Love is the wild-eyed antidote to cold imperatives

Love has since been hi-jacked

To tether down its whims

[Bridge]

Obey, obey, obey

So the passion dilutes

Obey, obey, obey, obey, obey, obey, obey

Perhaps under angry clouds

Of the imagined higher force

Refrain, refrain, refrain

From ending on a high note

Refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain

Perhaps under angry clouds

Of the imagined higher force

Perhaps it's this and other such constraints

From which we must divorce

On the Brink of Extinction Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Born between chaos and hatred, a lottery of fate

We sit on the brink of extinction, the world lies in wait

Just a scratch on the surface of time that will wash away

We delude ourselves with the notion that we are here to stay

[Pre-Chorus]

As life starts to shrink an impending state of neurosis

Will we awake from this negligent narcosis?

[Chorus]

On the brink

The brink of extinction

We're on the brink

The brink of extinction

[Verse 2]

Locked together in a mindless campaign

It's only now we see

Appreciation is the one redemption

For all that lives and breathes

Like a virus, its conscious impure

We have farmed disease

It's time now to step back

And find an inner peace

[Pre-Chorus]

As life starts to shrink an impending state of neurosis

Will we awake from this negligent narcosis?

[Chorus]

On the brink

The brink of extinction

We're on the brink

The brink of extinction

[Bridge]

Come on

Will we avoid a natural selection?

Do we have the right to survive the failures?

Nature, its force, the scales unbalanced

What's the next step? How do we evolve?

On the brink of extinction

Can we avoid a natural selection?

Do we have the right to survive the failures?

Nature, its force, the scales unbalanced

What's the next step? What can we resolve?

On the brink of extinction

[Pre-Chorus]

As life starts to shrink an impending state of neurosis

Will we awake from this negligent narcosis?

[Chorus]

On the brink

The brink of extinction

We're on the brink

The brink of extinction

Downbeat Clique Lyrics

[Verse 1]

For independence we alone define

Open-ended, not monopolised

It's just as it is

Does not need overstatement

Don't broadcast it from the rooftops

It's we alone that convene

[Chorus 1]

But radical actor, there you are

The radical statesman picking holes

But radical actor, there you are

The radical stateman's checklist of faults

[Chorus 2]

But radical actor, there you are

In radical terms this target's soft

But radical actor, there you are

In radical terms it's power to your lost soul

But radical actor, there you are

The radical heights of alienating

To be a cut above

Or below

[Bridge]

Infighting starts to establish

A clearly marked distance because image is at stake

Infighting starts to establish

A clearly marked distance because image is at stake

[Hook 1]

Mindlessly stifling

Downbeat clique

Down-at-heel

Downbeat clique

Infighting starts to establish

A clearly marked distance because image is at stake

Infighting starts to establish

A clearly marked distance because image is at stake

[Hook 2]

Pitifully sniping

Downbeat clique

Re-branded morality

Downbeat clique

Exactly what are you achieving?

[Verse 3]

The faithful patron of one conclusion

With reflection, effects are null and void

It's just as it is

[Chorus 3]

But radical actor, there you are

The radical statesman picking holes

But radical actor, there you are

In radical terms it's power to your lost soul

But radical actor, there you are

The radical slip into social structure

And your threatening alliance

[Outro]

With the norm

Larceny of the Heart Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Now that the time has passed

We look back in angst at the past

Now that the dust has cleared

The ugly head of fear has reared

Was there ever a guiding truth

A light to silence the cries?

Suspicion is building a case to counter-attack the lies

To counter-attack the lies

[Verse 2]

Now that time has moved on

Can we look to the future with hope?

Now that the dawn has returned

Forget not the sense of pain

Is the world still a masquerade

A deja vu of trauma?

Hidden plans and corrupt ideals

Molest the true spirit to live

[Chorus]

We cannot fight what we cannot see

Larceny, larceny, larceny of the heart

We can't take back what we didn't know was taken

Larceny

Larceny of the heart

[Verse 3]

Now that (now that) the time has passed

We look back in angst at the past

Now that the dust has cleared

The ugly head of fear has reared

Now that time has moved on

Can we look to the future with hope?

Now that the dawn has returned

Forget not the sense of pain

[Chorus]

We cannot fight what we cannot see

Larceny, larceny, larceny of the heart

We can't take back what we didn't know was taken

Larceny

Larceny of the heart

[Bridge]

Stripped to the nerve we obey

A shadow empire lies in wait

Stripped to the nerve we obey

The pounding pulse of deceit

[Chorus]

We cannot fight what we cannot see

Larceny, larceny, larceny of the heart

We can't take back what we didn't know was taken

Larceny, larceny, larceny of the heart

(Larceny), larceny of the heart

A No-Sided Argument Lyrics

[Intro]

Abject, engulfed

[Verse 1]

Assail the heathen you

Cheer the martyr home

Never drop your guard

[Chorus 1]

Smear campaign against clarity

A no-sided argument

Bite that tongue

[Verse 2]

Slum in a turgid rut

Self-flagellate to assure

Pleasures trampled flat

[Chorus 2]

Obligation to those pious myths

A no-sided argument

[Bridge]

You seem a brow-beaten husk

Sheltered from salacious 'everything'

You've reached saturation point

Every violating human touch sets bombs off inside your brain

You've reached saturation point

[Chorus 3]

With turmoil as an epitaph

A no-sided argument

De-Evolution Ad Nauseum Lyrics

[Verse 1]

Bent double and the vibrancy has gone

[Pre-Chorus 1]

Tremors upon shutdown of my auto-function

[Chorus 1]

They sold it well

Contentment

Contentment with no effort

No effort

[Verse 2]

Domesticated drone lets slip its motor skills

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Nothing seems to click without my

Auto-function

[Chorus 2]

They sold it well: disempowerment

Disempowerment

On demand, play dead

Play dead

[Post-Chorus]

On demand, play dead

Play dead

On demand, play dead

Play dead

On demand

[Verse 3]

No verve and no drive, as I passed it all on

[Pre-Chorus 3]

Trails of life relieved

Via my auto-function

[Chorus 3]

They sold it well

Appeasement

Appeasement and smooth transferal

Smooth transferal

Transferal

[Post-Chorus]

On demand

Play dead

On demand

Play dead

On demand

Play dead

[Bridge]

Do I need to speak, or emote?

And problem-solve or dream

Anymore?

Have I shrunk in stature or plummeted

Into deep hibernation?

[Outro]

On demand

Play dead

On demand

Play dead

On demand

Play dead

Play

Dead

Play dead

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Track Lyrics

Strong-Arm Lyrics

Diktat Lyrics

On the Brink of Extinction Lyrics

Downbeat Clique Lyrics

Larceny of the Heart Lyrics

A No-Sided Argument Lyrics

De-Evolution Ad Nauseum Lyrics