Skunkworks Live EP (1996)
Inertia
(B. Dickinson/ A. Dickson)These are the pictures, these are the feelings from the front-line Living in silence, feeling the deafness like heavy smoke Smiling with strangers, counting the days, like a spring coiled up inside Welcome to your future, welcome to your book of lies Fingers crawl through pages, nothing changes, living here... CHORUS: Inertia, no wish to move at all Inertia, everything's a stone wall Inertia, history lets you die A ragged pile of silent accusers Smell the blood of strangers here No eyes, no ears, no smell, no taste The mouth of the maggot is full in this place Murdered conscience, the pressure is crushing heads like paper lanterns now Unbreakable grip, a dead hand driving us forward to the end Kicking through traces a thousand years from now Inertia, no wish to think at all Inertia, everything's a stone wall Inertia, history lets you die SOLO REPEAT CHORUS (x2)
Faith
(B. Dickinson/ A. Dickson)You knew I wouldn't go, that's why you threatened me would I stay? Said I was sick, I'd be alone, said my mind was at my own I didn't run You crawled up on your knees, a victims pretty please Would I stay? Would I stay? ...and I stayed CHORUS: How many more times till I broke down from my guilty mess You taught me to hate to love you That's because you love to hate yourself I wish it had a happy end, like the fairy-tales pretend there can be But things are not the same when your life love was a game of make believe You get everything you want but not everything you need and it's true, you receive what you achieve How many screaming fights tears of rage until it ended How many more times till I say who I am and don't pretend SOLO How many more times till I broke down from that guilty mess How many more times till I say who I am and don't pretend
Innerspace
(B. Dickinson/ A. Dickson/ C. Dale)I see the scars of action writhing round your face Too much inactivity and home's a lonely place Throw away your beauty cuz you know that it won't last Throw away your present, you've been living in the past Come on, take a trip with me across the bridge of lunacy Fire up some beast and ride the skywaves Don't wanna waste my time on you if you can't travel this way too Fire up this beast, we'll ride the skywaves I've thrown away my images, they're all so distant now Discovery was a stranger then, welcome to my house Whatever demons torture me I love them like a friend Nothing lasts forever but the certainty of change I'd rather move around and be than figure out live and what it means Fire up some beast and ride the skywaves Don't wanna waste my time on you if you can't travel this way too Fire up this beast, we'll ride the skywaves SOLO And when the fireballs work is done, and we are part of the nuclear one The whole damn thing begins again Our glory days have just begun, a fiery sideslip then we're gone I'll see ya Monday morning Any way I'm coming back Any way I'm coming back
The prisoner
(A. Smith/ S. Harris)I'm on the run, I kill to eat You're starving now you're dead on your feet Going all the way, a nature's beast Do what I want, I'll do as I please STICK: Run fight to breathe it's tough Now you see me now you don't Break the walls I'm coming out CHORUS I: Not a prisoner I'm a free man And my blood is my own now Don't care where the past was I know where I'm going ... out If you kill me it's self defence If I kill you then I call it vengeance Spit in your eye I will defy You'll be afraid when I call out your name REPEAT STICK PEPEAT CHORUS I CHORUS II: I'm not a number I'm a free man I'll live my life how I want to You'd better scratch me from your black book Cos I'll run rings round you SOLO REPEAT CHORUS I & II