Crass - What The Fuck? lyrics

What now? Now you would destroy the earth

Dry, the river beds

What now? Now in your control, birth and death

Dry, the bodies, incandescent in the heat

Your fire is melting both soil and soul

In plan maybe, is that not enough?

Your war and raving of it is so total

You're consumed by it as you'd consume us

Would you see the fire from your sanctuary of death?

What terrible pain you need to hide

In your hatred you'd seek to destroy the earth

What is it that you have been denied?

Your mind and its rantings are so barren

What the fuck are you thinking? What the fuck?

Your eyes and their vision, empty, staring

What the fuck are you seeing? What the fuck?

So singularly your motives, yet impossible to define

How finely lined my destiny in the cobwebs of your crime

So insular your future, so alien your plan

Take all of this if you will and take what I can

A town that is no more

"My God", you say, "What have I done?"

But you won't heed what's gone before

"What pity?", you say, "There is none"

And so you drive the world to war

But this war will not be lost or won

The desolation that you've seen but never saw

Is the lesson that you teach, but never learn

But would you see the fire in the world where you exist?

Will your hard eyes register the pain?

Are you so cold that there is no distress?

Where there's death would you give death again?

No flowers in your landscape, some withered rose

Kicked amongst the corpses where they lay

Halted where all hope died, froze

By the horror of your acts compelled to stay

Unnoticed all this in your lusting after death

How determined that your darkness should be shared

Unnoticed in your blindness this miracle of breath

What element of beauty attracts your cruel desire?

Would you see the burning? Is that your delight?

Would you have me see it in your stead?

Would you feel my yearning? Peace, life, light

Body, breath. Would you take all this?

What is it that you're seeking, so cold and so deprived?

What is it that you dream of in your empty eyeless head?

Why must I share your lust of death?

Can you not die alone? Why must I share your fear of breath

Life, light, PEACE