Napalm Death - Diktat

Track number two from British Grindcore band Napalm Death's Newest studio album, Time Waits for no Slave.
Lyrics:
"To have and hold for all eternity"
Limitations and ambitions are a pretext to falling short

We'll be doomed, marooned and two fatalities
Anomalies in whispered circles
For pledges we could never hope to fulfil

But if it works for you
Then it works because of you
Not a diktat from a guild
For who love is (unflinching) servitude

Castigate or deprecate - they want heads hung in shame
When a union runs its course
For pledges we could never hope to fulfil

Irrepressible, irresponsible love
Is the wild-eyed antitote to cold imperatives
Love is the wild-eyed antidote
To cold imperatives
Love is like the last day you'll ever live

So why lose that spark
When our paths begin to merge?
It's the yoke of absolutes - those pledges
We could never blight in compliance

Love is the wild-eyed antidote to cold imperatives
Love has since been hi-jacked to tether down its whims

Obey, obey, obey so the passion dilutes
Obey, obey, obey, obey, obey, obey, obey

Perhaps under angry clouds of the imagined higher force

Refrain, refrain, refrain
From ending on a high note
Refrain, refrain, refrain, refrain
Refrain, refrain, refrain

Perhaps under angry clouds of the imagined higher force
Perhaps it's this and other such constraints
From which we must divorce

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[juuhaa1]

Religion is hate

Religion is fear

Religion is war

Religion is rape

Religion's obscure

Religion's a whore

[xbloodxdrunkx]

two words:

holy shit.

[jackwilsontube]

SLAYER IS BETTER ...THIS SHIT

[blackhawkfan54]

@TheZiggirawk

Oh shut the fuck up and take your inverted cross mouth with you.

We all know the band has a problem with religion- all atheist ignoramuses do. And that they have a problem basically with marriage, anything that is normal to the other 9/10ths of the world- so it appears these days.  The band doesn't have a point anymore other than to rip on everything that is normal- next they'll rip on themselves.

[TheZiggirawk]

@blackhawkfan54 lol Mr. Jesus Freak, go watch the track by track videos on Century Media's channel. Don't say shit unless you can back it up. And it matters regardless of whether or not it's a year ago, because you're still an overzealous bigot.

[blackhawkfan54]

@TheZiggirawk

whatever- what's the point to replying to something I wrote years ago? It doesn't change my opinion.

The lyrics clearly state that its anti marriage

But if it works for you

Then it works because of you

Not a diktat from a guild

For who love is (unflinching) servitude

I don't think they're nearly as good as what they used to be anymore- but if you like 'em- so be it. Barneys atheism has 13 flaws within it too as its a man-made belief itself.

End of line.

[TheZiggirawk]

@blackhawkfan54 um, i know this is old and you are probably less of a dumbass now, but i'll say it anyway. this song is pro marriage. its pro "nobody can rub their religion or their beliefs in my face and i can marry whoever the fuck i want."

He isn't bashing it. Read the lyrics better next time. Idiot.

[TheZiggirawk]

But most members are only in the band for a relatively brief time. If they had the same line up for 20+ years, they'd probably sound like shit. Napalm Deaths members don't have a chance to have a mid life crisis, because they leave the band before they hit their 40s.

[TheZiggirawk]

@Sinchy922 its about marriage

[TheZiggirawk]

I can marry whoever the fuck I want! This is the theme song for gay marriage now.

[nagumo10001]

Napalm Fucking Death!!!!! This band is truly, the SHIT!!!!!

[FutileExistence]

@J4m3z1

seriously I don't get where they got that idea, even if people did began to dislike them. =/