"Cancer Of The Heart" lyrics - 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