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Enemy of the Music Business by Napalm Death - Album Lyrics & Tracks

Napalm Death•2000 Released•Metal•United Kingdom
Tracks: 14
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Duration: 48:35
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Label: Dream Catcher

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Complete Album Tracklist

1

Taste the Poison

01:49
2

Next on the List

03:36
3

Constitutional Hell

02:36
4

Vermin

02:17
5

Volume of Neglect

03:20
6

Thanks for Nothing

02:44
7

Can’t Play, Won’t Pay

03:25
8

Blunt Against the Cutting Edge

03:03
9

Cure for the Common Complaint

02:43
10

Necessary Evil

02:55
11

C.S. (Conservative Shithead), Part 2

02:18
12

Mechanics of Deceit

03:21
13

(The Public Get) What the Public Doesn’t Want

03:14
14

Fracture in the Equation / [untitled]

11:08
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Enemy of the Music Business Complete Lyrics

Constitutional Hell Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Everything fits nicely into place
Higher powers take the lead
Middleman sit, pondering his worth
One great scheme to stem objective urge
 
[Chorus 2]
Decision-making
And power-playing
One up-manship
Show of hands
To clasp the myth
Vote in a new scourge
 
[Verse 2]
Everything fits nicely into place
Higher powers take the lead
Issues are decided before we've a chance to think
And moral high ground wins the day again
 
[Chorus 2]
Decision-making
And power-playing
Principles spurned
Show of hands
To clasp the myth
Favors for my friends
 
 
[Bridge]
It's a constitutional hell
Where they pontificate and yell
Where etiquette outplays integrity
It's a constitutional hell
 
It's a constitutional hell
(???)
It's a constitutional hell
 
Hell
Hell
 
[Verse 3]
Everything fits nicely into place
Higher powers take the lead
Sleeping giants show their real worth
I'll sum up on all the good you've done this earth:
Nothing
Nothing

Vermin Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The rats on this earth have nothing on you
An insult to those which crawl the sewers
 
[Chorus]
Devourer
Plunderer
Deceptor
 
[Verse 2]
Sniff out a scheme
And leave the scraps behind
Voracious, insatiable
A nose attuned to greed
 
[Chorus]
Devourer
Plunderer
Deceptor
 
[Bridge]
Evade all traps
And come out gnashing, snarling, gnashing, snarling
 
Disguises are many
Media pawn or man on the street
 
 
They'll scavenge your emotions
And leave you diseased
They'd steal a last possession
And smile as you concede
 
[Chorus]
Devourer
Plunderer
Deceptor

Volume of Neglect Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Speculate freely
Begrudge me intensely
Lacking a conscience
Lacking intelligence
Lesser than nothing
Lower than everything
As you drain our vitality
To a mundane reality
 
[Verse 2]
A form of therapy
Without compensation
A vague psychology
Free from obligation
Intercept the negligence
Accept the consequence
Amongst Barbaria
Mass hysteria
 
[Chorus 1]
Opposite in a sign to abide
When the future is ours to decide
We continue to watch and observe
Just to find out what purpose it serves
 
 
[Bridge 1]
Paralyzed? A spectacle for all to see
Happiness within our grasp, but out of reach
 
[Chorus 2]
Volume of neglect
Forcibly expressed
Volume of neglect
Forcibly expressed
 
[Bridge 2]
Devastate a silhouette, calm and serene
Abandon a systematic insane routine
 
[Chorus 2]
Volume of neglect
Forcibly expressed
Volume of neglect
Forcibly expressed
 
[Chorus 1]
Opposite in a sign to abide
When the future is ours to decide
We continue to watch and observe
Just to find out what purpose it serves
 
 
[Outro]
Volume of neglect
Volume (volume)
Volume of neglect
Volume (volume)

Thanks for Nothing Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Serve my head on a plate
Pulp my heart with ill will
I did trust you, led to lust you
To be duped
 
[Chorus 1]
Thanks for fucking nothing!
 
[Verse 2]
Serve my head on a plate
Pulp my heart with ill will
Sensed a mystique, turned to spent air
Killed it dead
 
[Chorus 2]
Thanks for fucking nothing
Scraped the depths to salvage something
 
[Chorus 3]
Thanks for fucking nothing
Drained my all, then dropped the bombshell
 
[Bridge]
True, we were not joined, our every feature spliced
Though you rushed in and took a lead
 
 
Three words spouted
 
This contagion
Crossed all divides
Caused a shift in protective focus
 
Three words flouted
 
Untimely end, I should've clicked, a sensory cut-out
A spoiling of the harmony, of which we were about
I don't despise or demonize, but I just know your form
Walk right out and move along, and leap before you look
 
Fuck!
 
[Chorus 1]
Thanks for fucking nothing!

Necessary Evil Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I dissolve to a dream of the past
Terminate, to remove, falling fast
At the end of a chain thoughts collect
Execute a degree, I defect
 
[Chorus 1]
What's it worth?
Sacrifice the earth, it bleeds
Meet your needs, devilish deeds
 
[Verse 2]
Reconcile, understood, contemplate
Desecrate, to denounce, detonate
Tentative, to reject, overdue
Final stage to complete, follow through
 
[Chorus 2]
Far too late
Absolute hate this hell
An empty shell
Desolate cells
 
[Bridge]
A necessary evil
Bargaining pleas
Held at ransom
Our souls diseased
A necessary evil
The dominant role
There's no escape
You crossed the solitary line
A necessary evil
Bargaining pleas
Held at ransom
Our souls diseased
A necessary evil
The dominant role
There's no escape
You crossed the solitary line
 
 
[Verse 3]
(???)
Tentative, to reject, overdue
Final stage to complete, follow through
 
[Chorus 1]
What's it worth?
Sacrifice the earth, it bleeds
Meet your needs, devilish deeds
 
[Bridge]
A necessary evil
Bargaining pleas
Held at ransom
Our souls diseased
A necessary evil
The dominant role
There's no escape
You crossed the solitary line
A necessary evil
Bargaining pleas
Held at ransom
Our souls diseased
A necessary evil
The dominant role
There's no escape
You crossed the solitary line
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(The Public Get) What the Public Doesn’t Want Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Name your price for progress
Impoverished settle the bill
Clear a path, coming through
Clear a path, coming through
 
[Verse 2]
Stylise
Make it easy on the eye
Keep our distance
Too under-formed to grace the sublime
 
[Verse 3]
Flatter to deceive
Building art-house cosmetics
Like a mismatched prosthetic
Like a mismatched prosthetic
 
[Verse 4]
Spreads like wildfire
Burgeoning yuppie nirvana
Highbrow aesthetics
Decadents always crave more
 
[Verse 5]
Marvel at the sleek design
The wilting talk of curves and lines
Appease the resistance
To banish my pig-ignorance
 
 
[Chorus]
The public gets what the public doesn't want
 
[Verse 6]
What use is this to man or beast
It glosses over basic needs
 
[Chorus]
The public gets what the public doesn't want
 
[Bridge]
Access denied
We're utter philistines
Access denied
We're utter philistines
 
[Verse 7]
Caged in the exclusion zone
Pass away in sepia tones
 
[Chorus]
The public gets what the public doesn't want
 
[Bridge]
Access denied
Accept we're cultural slime
Access denied
Accept we're cultural slime
 
 
Access denied