Cancer Of The Heart - Skyclad

There’s a simple diagnosis

For this vicious symbiosis

Feel the growth of rogue psychosis

We’re the cause, we are the cure

Across each continent and nation

Spread without discrimination

We refuse our medication

Yet inject the virus pure

Father, mother, sister, brother

Everyone infects each other

Insidious, incestuous love

A feeling more akin to hate

Vying constantly for power

And changing sides with every hour

In homes built with machine-gun towers

The sights trained on the garden gate

Seems we made our greatest error

When we named it at the start

For though we called it «human nature»

It was cancer of the heart

To show compassion makes you weak

So don’t dare turn the other cheek

Try hard to hide the fear you feel

With a heart of stone and nerves of steel

A naked-ape in the human zoo

You amaze me with the things you do

I watch your pride before the fall

And realise I don’t belong at all

We try to leave the past behind us

Racing onwards blind and mindless

Now the milk of human kindness

Won’t serve for one cup of tea

We sate the hunger, quench the thirst

Then lock our doors, expect the worst

Be sure and always do to others first

What they could do to thee!

It’s the biggest contradiction

In terms language could impart

Something neither humane nor natural

Just cancer of the heart

To show compassion makes you weak

So don’t dare turn the other cheek

Try hard to hide the fear you feel

With a heart of stone and nerves of steel

A naked-ape in the human zoo

You amaze me with the things you do

I watch your pride before the fall

And realise I don’t belong at all

Its replicating culture sprawls

When you see red as Rose-Bengal

The anti-body's common sense

Intolerance it’s best defence

Microscopic minds can’t diagnose

The cause before the symptom shows

A grave threat to the rational health

Be your own physician — heal thyself!

Seems the biggest contradiction

In terms language could impart

Something neither humane nor natural

Just cancer of the heart

To show compassion makes you weak

So don’t dare turn the other cheek

Try hard to hide the fear you feel

With a heart of stone and nerves of steel

A naked-ape in the human zoo

You amaze me with the things you do

I watch your pride before the fall

And realise I don’t belong at all