Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat 1. Apex Predator - Easy Meat A stampede to rush forward, yet I'm in retreat Far horizon greedily sucks in the keen Descend down the scale on drooping stumps I've wished to shear Come, the predatory to luckless Spread-eagled, I am easy meat A mound for a quarrel, none more austere A lebensraum in landfill I had once pieced (together) Tail the higher caste and shovel whatever foulness they excrete Come, the predatory to luckless Razed to the ground, I am easy meat Tenderise chunks of a weakling Claim on bare bones for bleaching Thousand-yard stares for the meeting Apex predator - easy meat 2. Smash A Single Digit Crunch a number, grinds your gears Crunch a number, root out a stiff then tightly squeeze Wretch after wretch Non-expressive matter designated to perish Smash a single digit Wretch follows wretch Cleave to progress, rotate the cull Cleave to progress, this ranks lower than collateral Louse after louse Non-reflective minions who must labour and perish Smash a single digit Louse follows louse As there is no lower to plunge No heed is paid to consequences There's no sum when you're not a part 3. Metaphorically Screw You All you can eat, on all you can feast All that can be really cheaply played All a noise of nothing but scheming You are deftly swayed, vigorously splayed Metaphorically screw you All you can eat, on all you can feast Tongue-lashed till you're fucking swayed There's a sea of impenetrable jargon to submerge those pauper's graves If you please in triple-speak - a clammy helping global hand What it means in triple speak: yanked down a yawning crevasse All you can eat, on all you can feast, you're crammed with triple-speak Not a trickle through the floodgates The dumping ground of fabled inclusion can't dissuade the deftly swayed Based on need in triple speak they've metaphorically screwed you 4. How The Years Condemn We are not invincible Nor are we indestructible There are choices - points of return Will the path be easy? Nothing is easy, but that's reality For the sake of my loved ones I will remain on this earth It's the last chance to face the fears I have always known Better that than to fear the unknown How the years condemned my heart to a plague of madness How the years condemn I think back on a life of friendships Now, more than ever I cherish them Was it you that had my back, my absent friend? I have to take these challenges to head on No more excuses or fragile promises I hope now I finally understand, my absent friend 5. Stubborn Stains "No" is the utterance duly strangled by omnipotence Dire comebacks call a halt to any visions of furtherance Doggedly scoured away like a stubborn stain For I am a product inferior to inferior product I am snarled in the links of your supply chains Malcontent Left to spread Treat as stubborn stains Of molestation and machinery and man No molestations in those quirky ad campaigns I am long pinned down You'll find me under buildings and your tawdry, hateful malpractice I am long pinned down I am the invisible smear on your sorely tempting price tag And as perishable as your product, I can just be thrown away I am the invisible smear Treat as stubborn stains Spurious lament Without a neck to hang their corporate heads in shame They will breeze on through quite unscathed Turn a profit and turn away Of molestation and machinery and man Short-lived stubborn stain 6. Timeless Flogging History consigns the post The frame that dislocates Ah, yes, no angry stripes on my back Evidently I'm spared I've been spared? Excruciating instruments can be dismantled Excruciating instruments can be dismantled across my every waking moment Dismantled via a time-stretched crack of the whip Physicality in short bursts might be nullified Physicality in short bursts might be nullified, but repackaged as grinding daily slog Nullified amidst plastic folly peaks This kingdom I can survey One king of a strong-arm state 7. Dear Slum Landlord… Big strong boss Have a query to raise with my head underfoot Face shaved on stone and it's answer enough Big strong boss Safety for me is many steps too far You're the cudgel dripping with gold I am improved when rhythmically clubbed Deserving case, lousy deserving case Lowly deserving case, deserving case Safety for me is many steps too far Face shaved on stone and rhythmically clubbed I am improved - it's answer enough Deserving case, shirking deserving case Backwards deserving case, deserving case At your service! 8. Cesspits As long as things sit pretty over here Don't hesitate to dolefully flatline over there Don't overstep Cover your hole please, but not in my glory... ...Don't! Deluge a chasm Depart this dominion please And slope off to your cesspit Cesspits Equal footing, as it would seem, in pursuant to containing the human sludge Rank sludge, foul sludge, the sludge Standing of the near-immaculate must still be shielded from the unfortunate's junk Just junk, weird junk, the junk As long as things sit pretty over there Passed off as equal footing Cesspits 9. Bloodless Coup Taking charge by force chills down to the bone Visibly futile and strangely pitiful Transfer of the hulking yoke and grievances unclosed Hands the batons on to take free swings just because Really? Just because? Taking charge by force with free licence to lunge Snarl and take a potshot - feels good You've toppled the order but are now the same enforcer Scaling new heights of severity just because Snap decision to snap into Amplify what's been done to you Such a rush - righting wrongs This is not right from wrong Wildly, sporadically righting wrongs This is not right from wrong Paving ways without force Pull the punch before it floors the unwitting pawn With all we can muster - divide and conquer Recognise it and reverse the zeal all because Succession after succession to fall right into Regenerated to suit the few You sprang when pushed Now no right or wrong Fabricated rights and wrongs Because vengeance is no kind of leveller Bloodless coup Ultimately save the strikes for the structure Bloodless coup 10. Beyond The Pale We stray beyond the pale, beyond the failsafe Narrow escape, authorised access Beyond the pale, beyond the failsafe Looking in from the outside Appealing resistance to equality As we fall by the wayside Producing our offspring in captivity Looking out from the inside Accessing wreckage from powers that be The effects of a landslide No financial gain to restore poverty We live behind the rules, we are the living proof Machines are set in constant motion without an indication of emotion The medium creates the wave, with the potential to enslave We're dominated by the pull and so much easier to rule Unprecedented need, the tools are in demand Machines are set in constant motion without an indication of emotion Obviously feeding on the plains An independent sinister exchange Bombarded by a placid neutral stance Developing without a second glance Beyond the pale The surface tension is venting fast Another social violation Closing the space on the present and past We live beyond the pale 11. Stunt Your Growth Spread of seed over many expanses Cycles It would grow regardless out of these behemoth's clutches Claimants to the last drop Patents block the begging bowls Owned to stunt your growth Stunt your growth Basic subsistence hinges around this fundamental biology Jaw-dropping concessions to cabals viewing anything natural as commodity If this is what it's come to, we can ration out the oxygen We can rule on replication of bodily expression We can wholly stunt our growth If this is where we're heading this is the height of ludicrousness We could count on ruination whenever the wind blows Strewn - and stealthily stunt our growth If we waive natural liberties, the GMO literally consume to control 12. Hierarchies Endless hierarchies Distortions of human nature The myths and their gravity This world we have created defies our natural evolution Nature versus nurture Obsolescence reality In a state of collapse Led by the invisible hand They tip the scales of equilibrium Structured delusional system disorder Nature versus nurture Obsolescence reality Nature versus future The endless hierarchies We pushed it all too far Those vicious cycles, ecocide We spilled the blood of innocents Hierarchies Endless hierarchies Distortions of human nature Nature versus future Obsolescence reality Nature versus nurture The endless hierarchies 13. One-Eyed Kill this channel - it needs to be switched I offer a vendetta in exchange for a split second to blink In exchange for a split second to blink Dragged from view, so no split second to blink Hide the hovels, give not a split second to blink Kill this channel - less for more lifestyle stink I spread out saved silver In exchange for the broken spirits toward whom I won't blink I stockpile for the impending... what? But who's paying? Who is paying? But who's paying Lift the lid and it dawns - who's paying? Bereft, desperate, the belittled, the devalued to no value - they are paying Should stoop ever lower, bow and scrape - they are paying So take a split second to know that abolition didn't lift them off their knees From plantation, transplantation behind suburban curtains The upshot of their exertions a vacuum-packed ambivalence Get them off their knees! 14. Adversarial / Copulating Snakes I'll skulk expectantly and open wide, shall I? I'll position myself for readjustment, shall I? Be bared for tools and debilitating friction, shall I? Be passed around like pickings for scavengers, shall I? Adversarial I'll passively be defined as shockproof vessel, shall I? Then reprimanded for every snapping sinew, shall I? I'll take the strokes because I skipped a beat, shall I? I'll be accepting that my time ceases here, shall I? Adversarial Adversarial - manhandled off my plateau Feral? Uncivil? Adversarial I'm almost pacified by your incredulity But these bondage ties reserved my right... Adversarial - Base? Remedial... ...Soon though, resistance is but strangulated pangs Intertwining around any inkling that I might stand and be counted Perennial the serpents that proffer then throttle Awe at copulating snakes Copulating snakes Copulating snakes These are copulating snakes Almighty conglomeration of writhing prowess The muscles that mute me in tandem Rallying cries jab my own throat as I terminally clench. Dispatched by copulating snakes Copulating snakes These are copulating snakes Copulating snakes Shane Embury — Bass, Vocals Mitch Harris — Guitars, Vocals Mark "Barney" Greenway — Vocals Danny Herrera — Drums