Immolation

By Uncle Slam

On Say Uncle

Released on 1988

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[Verse 1]

It's your life, your suicide

You've got beliefs and baby maybe you can change the world

One time that's all it takes

To spark the flame or lodge the bullet deep inside your brain


[Chorus 1]

It's death by immolation


[Verse 2]

One life just don't mean shit

What makes you think that you can change the course of world events

Blood craze the front page

Political evaluation of the sacrifice


[Chorus 2]

It's death by immolation

For all the world to see


[Post-Chorus]

Are you insane? Were you afraid?

Or did you speak with God and get the key to heaven's gate


[Verse 3]

Burnt flesh, the smell of death

We saw the burned up body bag of blood upon the screen

We liked, we all laughed

The sacrificial suicide was in the mind


[Chorus 1]

It's death by immolation


[Verse 4]

You fought the losing fight

And now you bear the burden of the wall within your soul

No fun, you're the one

You play the martyr and the king of martyrs you've become


[Chorus 2]

It's death by immolation

For all the world to see


[Post-Chorus]

Are you insane? Were you afraid?

Or did you speak with God and get the key to heaven's gate


[Bridge]

It's death by immolation

For all the world to see

Self-made assassination

Stay away from me!


[Guitar solo]


[Verse 5]

Dead sleep, the next week

The world forgot about the no sense stupid suicide

The wife of the dead

Is keeping live and getting physical in someone's bed


[Outro]

So much for immolation

A lifetime incomplete