Cancer of the Heart

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Skyclad are a British heavy metal band with heavy folk influences in their music. They are considered one of the pioneers of folk metal. The etymology behind the term "skyclad" comes from a pagan/wiccan term for ritual nudity, in which rituals are performed with the participants metaphorically clad only by the sky, as a sign of equality. The name alludes both to the bands' religious leanings and to their social beliefs, as set out in the song "Skyclad" on their first album. more »


Year:
2002
5:27
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There's a simple diagnosis for this vicious symbiosis
Feel the growth of rogue psychosis
We are 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

[Chorus]

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 impact
Something neither humane or natural - just "Cancer of the heart"

[Chorus]

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 mo with the things you do.
I watch your pride before the fall,
And realise I don't belong at all.

It's 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 shrows.

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 or natural -just'Cancer Of The Heart'

[Chorus]

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 l don't belong at all.

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Written by: MARTIN WALKYIER, STEPHEN RAMSEY

Lyrics © CONEXION MEDIA GROUP, INC., Royalty Network

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