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| I remember now |
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[6:00 PM ]
[ ]
[Our friend Nikki, charged with several counts of murder ]
[involving members of this city's political and religious leaders, ]
[has been committed to State Hospital under heavy security. ]
[PA: Dr. Davis, telephone please, Dr. Davis, telephone please. ]
[Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton. ]
[ ]
[TV: ...the Soviets... In other news the bizarre murders of ]
[political and religious leaders that have shocked this ]
[city over the last month seemed to have ended as ]
[suddenly as they began. No terrorist groups ... ]
[responsibility for the slayings, but police have a ]
[suspect in custody under observation in a state hospital. ]
[His identity is being withheld pending further ]
[investigation. Sports and weather next... ]
[London-born nurse, Debbie, seems determined to administer ]
[the tranquilizer and give us her personal feelings regarding her ]
[patient. Hmm? ]
[Debbie: It's ten minutes past curfew, why are you still up? ]
[Hello? Hello? ]
[Perhaps you need another shot. ]
[Ah, that should do it. ]
[Sweet dreams... you bastard. ]
[Injection completed, Nikki listens to his favorite tape ]
[and retraces his past. ]
[Nikki: I remember now. ]
[I remember how it started. ]
[I can't remember yesterday. ]
[I just remember doing what they told me... told me... ]
[told me... told me. ]
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| Anarchy-X |
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Weeks ago in Occidental Park, hundreds of people gathered
for a political rally. There was a man shouting above all the
others. The man's name? "Dr. X."
Dr X: Do we have freedom?
Do we have equality?
This country's changing!
It is no longer for all of the people!
It is for some of the people!
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| Revolution calling |
|---|
For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
There's a Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam
They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
There's a Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
There's a Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
*Ring*
*Ring*
Nikki: Hello?
Dr. X: Mindcrime.
*Click*
[ The phone hasn't stopped ringing since the hypnotic ]
[ meeting with Dr. X. His plan is brilliant in its simplicity: ]
[ assassination and replacement. He calls it, "Operation: ]
[ mindcrime," and Nikki is the key player. ]
[ Nikki has a weakness. He likes the needle. Dr. X makes ]
[ sure Nikki feels good so he can do a good job. The chosen "Death ]
[ Angel" is then easily manipulated through subliminal suggestion ]
[ over the telephone. The password into Nikki's brain is ]
"mindcrime."
*Ring*
Nikki: Hello?
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| Operation : mindcrime |
|---|
It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions
Yeah I'm gonna make you sure
A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure
Operation : Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy
Let me into your mind
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system boy
With nothing to sign
Nikki: "Hey, hey, listen to me!"
[ Nikki was a loser. A street kid, left to fend for ]
[ himself at a young age. He was independent, and unpredictable, ]
[ but harmless. Except now he had a philosophy, and that made him ]
[ dangerous. ]
[ "Revolution!" was the word on his lips as he stood in the ]
[ streets and screamed, "Hey, listen to me!" ]
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| Speak |
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They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new messiah
Death Angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word [Revolution!]
The word is all of us
I've given my life to become what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind, you've got to learn
To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow
The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, we'll burn the White House down
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word [Revolution!]
The word is all of us
Speak the word [Revolution!]
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
[Speak!]
[ Mary worked the S M shows in Times Square. At seventeen ]
[ she met Father William, who arranged her cloister with "Our Lady ]
[ of Immaculate Pain." A new life. A different way of living. ]
[ Except for her debt with him, which was expected to be paid in ]
[ full, weekly, "...on the altar. Like a sacrifice." ]
[ When she was eighteen, Father William introduced her to a ]
[ man named Dr. X. Now she works for him. ]
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| Spreading the disease |
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She always brings me what I need
Without I beg and sweat and bleed
When we're alone at night
Waiting for the call
She feeds my skin
Sixteen and on the run from home
Found a job in Times Square
Working Live S M shows
Twenty-five bucks a fuck
And John's a happy man
She wipes the filth away
And it's back on the streets again
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
Father William saved her from the streets
She drank the lifeblood from the saviour's feet
She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice
He takes her once a week
On the alter like a sacrifice
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
Spoken: Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling God
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we pay for wars in South America
Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules America
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
The way society
Keeps spreading the disease
[Sex]
[Sex]
[Sex]
[Sex]
[Sex]
[ Nikki spends quite a lot of time these days in his room; ]
[ drawing gruesome, detailed depictions of his victims' deaths ]
[ upon the dingy white walls. Drowning in guilt, he sees Sister ]
[ Mary as his only means to salvation. He lights another candle ]
[ and flips through the TV channels one by one. The familiar face ]
[ of Father William appears. ]
[ TV: ...informing Washington, a technical violation of the ]
[ 1972 AMB Treaty... ]
[ Father: ...I'm asking for hands to be uplifted in just a moment. ]
[ God the Holy Ghost is calling out to embrace you. I want ]
[ you to reach deep into your hearts and your pocketbooks ]
[ and take his hand. Some of you are in a state of ]
[ rebellion right now. You're saying... ]
[ Nikki: Bless me father, for I have sinned. ]
[ Is it wrong? Is it right? ...Ring! ...Ring! ]
[ "mindcrime!!" Decision made. ]
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| The mission |
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In the wooden chair
Beside my pillow
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
[ A long, satin black sedan slides to a stop in front of ]
[ Nikki. The rain, beading on the dark, tinted windows, distorts ]
[ his reflection. Bemused by his melting facial features, he's ]
[ startled as the electric window descends revealing the smiling ]
[ face of Dr. X. ]
Dr. X: Kill her. That's all you have to do.
Nikki: Kill Mary?
Dr. X: She's a risk, and get the priest as well.
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| Suite sister Mary |
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10 P.M., I feel the rain coming down
My face feels the wet, my mind the storm
Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour
Moving silent, through the streets, they're mine, they're mine
Midnite, she sings praises in the Hall
To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall
Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin
Mary: What are you doing out in the rain?
She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks
Mary: I've been waiting for you. Come in.
Mary, Mary just a whore for the underground
They made you pay in guilt for your salvation
Thought you had them fooled? Now they've sent me for you
You know too much for your own good
Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here
My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam
What we need is trust, to keep us both alive
Help us make it through the night
Mary: I've no more want of any faith
Binds my arm and feed my mind
The only peace I've ever known
I'll close my eyes and you shoot
No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength from my lips
I pray I feed you well
Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long
For what you gave to everyone
The priest is cold and dead on his knees he fed
From my barrel of death, he turned the Holy water red
As he died he said thank you
I just watched him bleed
Mary: I feel the flow, the blessed stain
Sweating hands like fire, and flames
Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite
The hallowed altar burns my flesh once more tonight
Mary, sweet lady of pain
Always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time
No time to rest yet
We've got to stop his game
Before madness has the final laugh
Too much bloodshed
We're being used and fed
Like rats in experiments
No final outcome here
Only pain and fear
It's followed us both all our lives
There's one thing left to see
Will it be him or me?
There's one more candle left to light
Mary: Don't turn your back on my disgrace
The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds... so deep
The sins of man are all I taste
Can't spit the memory from my mind
I can't cry anymore
Mary, my lady of pain, always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time, you're mine
[ Father William lay crumpled on the stairs leading to the ]
[ sanctuary. ]
[ Mary watches in disgust as her lover Nikki's troubled ]
[ face dissolves into the leering, drooling face of the priest ]
[ huffing and puffing above her. ]
[ "Altar... sacrifice..." something snaps inside her head. ]
[ Nikki feels the coldness overtake her. He pulls away, vowing to ]
[ kill Dr. X and set them both free of their master's ]
[ manipulations. ]
[ Pulling closed the huge door behind him, he stumbles into ]
[ the rainy night to keep his appointment with his "maker." ]
Nikki: I've had enough and I want out!
Dr. X: You can't walk away now. Hahahahahaha...
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| The needle lies |
|---|
I looked back once
And all I saw was his face
Smiling, the needle crying
Walking out of his room
With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream
You'll never get away
Cold and shaking
I crawled down alleys to try
And scrape away the tracks that marked me
Slammed my face into walls of concrete
I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
Wet and raving
The needle keeps calling me back
To bloody my hands forever
Carved my cure with the blade
That left me in scars
Now every time I'm weak
Words scream from my arm
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
[ After Nikki leaves, Mary is plagued by the vision of ]
[ Nikki turning into Father William. As they made love on the ]
[ altar, the memories came flooding back. Years filled with men ]
[ who had used her, degraded and beaten her, and driven their ]
[ hatred and coldness into her heart. Once, she thought Nikki was ]
[ her hope. But now he seemed like all the rest. ]
[ She hated him. She hated men. She hated life. ]
[ Unable to shake his addiction, and feeling beaten in his ]
[ confrontation with Dr. X, Nikki returns. ]
Nikki: Anybody home?
Mary?
[ He finds her dead in her room. ]
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| Electric requiem |
|---|
Even in death
You still look sad
Don't leave me
Don't leave me... here
I want what you feel, believe me
Turn the current on
[ Unable to accept Mary's death, Nikki runs like a raving ]
[ madman through the streets calling her name. Everywhere he looks ]
[ he sees her face. ]
|
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| Breaking the silence |
|---|
They told me to run
But just how far
Can I go wearing the black mask of fear?
The hate in my eyes always gives me away
The tension building slowly
Now I lost everything I had in you
Nothing we shared means a thing
Without you close to me
I can't live without you
Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer me
There's no direction to my stare
No more flame burning in my heart anymore
Quiet, I keep it to myself
Until the sun sets slowly
I hear your voice in the evening rain calling
Nothing will keep us apart
No more lies and fear
There's no end to our story
Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer
I could make all the wrong seem right
If you were by my side
I'd gather all the tears you cried
And hide them deep underground
Can't look back, it's just a waste of time
Can't erase this hate from my eyes
Breaking the silence of the night
Through the streets I'm screaming
Looking for you in the neon light
Why don't you answer me?
Breaking the silence with my cries
Can't you hear me screaming?
We could make all this wrong seem right
But you never answer me
Voices: We know you did it. Why'd you do it? Why'd you do it?
Nikki: No, no, no!
[ The police arrest Nikki. The charges are: disorderly ]
[ conduct, carrying a concealed weapon without a license, and ]
[ resisting arrest. They know he's a junkie because of the tracks ]
[ on his arms. His weapon also matches the one used in a string of ]
[ recent killings. Nikki isn't making much sense now, babbling on ]
[ about perverted priests, some kind of covert operation, and not ]
[ believing in love. ]
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| I don't believe in love |
|---|
I awoke on impact
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
|
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| Waiting for 22 |
|---|
[Instrumental]
[Left alone, Nikki thinks of Mary; of the night she died, ]
[ and why. He wonders about his future. Who will be there to care ]
[ for him and be his friend? ]
|
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| My empty room |
|---|
Empty room today
And here I sit
Chalk outline upon the wall
I remember tracing it
A thousand times, the night she died. Why? Why?
There's no sleep today, I can't pretend
When all my dreams are crimes
I can't stand facing them
Now who will come
To wash away my sins
Clean my room, fix my meals
Be my friend?
[ Charged with several murders, Nikki is committed to State ]
[ Hospital to overcome his addiction. Awaiting trial, he suffers ]
[ insomnia and is delirious. ]
[ Searching through his past, he tries to find reasons for ]
[ his actions and his weaknesses. Staring into the mirror, he sees ]
[ a stranger. ]
|
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| Eyes of a stranger |
|---|
PA: Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton
All alone now
Except for the memories
Of what we had and what we knew
Every time I try to leave it behind me
I see something that reminds me of you
Every night the dreams return to haunt me
Your rosary wrapped around your throat
I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep
I see your face looking back at me
Looking back at me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
Is this all that's left
Of my life before me
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
[Lies behind my stare]
How many times must I live this tragedy
How many more lies will they tell me
All I want is the same as everyone
Why am I here, and for how long
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
[Mindcrime...]
[And welcome...]
[Speak!]
[REVOLUTION!]
6:01 PM
Nikki: I remember now.
|
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| The mission |
|---|
In the wooden chair
Beside my pillow
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
[ A long, satin black sedan slides to a stop in front of ]
[ Nikki. The rain, beading on the dark, tinted windows, distorts ]
[ his reflection. Bemused by his melting facial features, he's ]
[ startled as the electric window descends revealing the smiling ]
[ face of Dr. X. ]
Dr. X: Kill her. That's all you have to do.
Nikki: Kill Mary?
Dr. X: She's a risk, and get the priest as well.
|
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| My empty room |
|---|
Empty room today
And here I sit
Chalk outline upon the wall
I remember tracing it
A thousand times, the night she died. Why? Why?
There's no sleep today, I can't pretend
When all my dreams are crimes
I can't stand facing them
Now who will come
To wash away my sins
Clean my room, fix my meals
Be my friend?
[ Charged with several murders, Nikki is committed to State ]
[ Hospital to overcome his addiction. Awaiting trial, he suffers ]
[ insomnia and is delirious. ]
[ Searching through his past, he tries to find reasons for ]
[ his actions and his weaknesses. Staring into the mirror, he sees ]
[ a stranger. ]
|
|
| I remember now |
|---|
[6:00 PM ]
[ ]
[Our friend Nikki, charged with several counts of murder ]
[involving members of this city's political and religious leaders, ]
[has been committed to State Hospital under heavy security. ]
[PA: Dr. Davis, telephone please, Dr. Davis, telephone please. ]
[Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J. Hamilton. ]
[ ]
[TV: ...the Soviets... In other news the bizarre murders of ]
[political and religious leaders that have shocked this ]
[city over the last month seemed to have ended as ]
[suddenly as they began. No terrorist groups ... ]
[responsibility for the slayings, but police have a ]
[suspect in custody under observation in a state hospital. ]
[His identity is being withheld pending further ]
[investigation. Sports and weather next... ]
[London-born nurse, Debbie, seems determined to administer ]
[the tranquilizer and give us her personal feelings regarding her ]
[patient. Hmm? ]
[Debbie: It's ten minutes past curfew, why are you still up? ]
[Hello? Hello? ]
[Perhaps you need another shot. ]
[Ah, that should do it. ]
[Sweet dreams... you bastard. ]
[Injection completed, Nikki listens to his favorite tape ]
[and retraces his past. ]
[Nikki: I remember now. ]
[I remember how it started. ]
[I can't remember yesterday. ]
[I just remember doing what they told me... told me... ]
[told me... told me. ]
|
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| Anarchy-X |
|---|
Weeks ago in Occidental Park, hundreds of people gathered
for a political rally. There was a man shouting above all the
others. The man's name? "Dr. X."
Dr X: Do we have freedom?
Do we have equality?
This country's changing!
It is no longer for all of the people!
It is for some of the people!
|
|
| Revolution calling |
|---|
For a price I'd do about anything
Except pull the trigger
For that I'd need a pretty good cause
Then I heard of Dr. X
The man with the cure
Just watch the television
Yeah, you'll see there's something going on
Got no love for politicians
Or that crazy scene in D.C.
It's just a power mad town
But the time is ripe for changes
There's a growing feeling
That taking a chance on a new kind of vision is due
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
There's a Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam
They're all in Penthouse now
Or Playboy magazine, million dollar stories to tell
I guess Warhol wasn't wrong
Fame fifteen minutes long
Everyone's using everybody, making the sale
I used to think
That only America's way, way was right
But now the holy dollar rules everybody's lives
Gotta make a million doesn't matter who dies
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
There's a Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
I used to trust the media
To tell me the truth, tell us the truth
But now I've seen the payoffs
Everywhere I look
Who do you trust when everyone's a crook?
Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Revolution calling you
There's a Revolution calling
Revolution calling
Gotta make a change
Gotta push, gotta push it on through
*Ring*
*Ring*
Nikki: Hello?
Dr. X: Mindcrime.
*Click*
[ The phone hasn't stopped ringing since the hypnotic ]
[ meeting with Dr. X. His plan is brilliant in its simplicity: ]
[ assassination and replacement. He calls it, "Operation: ]
[ mindcrime," and Nikki is the key player. ]
[ Nikki has a weakness. He likes the needle. Dr. X makes ]
[ sure Nikki feels good so he can do a good job. The chosen "Death ]
[ Angel" is then easily manipulated through subliminal suggestion ]
[ over the telephone. The password into Nikki's brain is ]
"mindcrime."
*Ring*
Nikki: Hello?
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| Operation : mindcrime |
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It just takes a minute
And you'll feel no pain
Gotta make something of your life boy
Give me one more vein
You've come to see the doctor
Cause I'll show you the cure
I'm gonna take away the questions
Yeah I'm gonna make you sure
A hit man for the order
When you couldn't go to school
Had a skin job for a hair-do
Yeah you looked pretty cool
Had a habit doing mainline
Watch the dragon burn
No regrets, you've got no goals
Nothing more to learn
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Hey Nikki you know everything
That there is to do
Here's a gun take it home
Wait by the phone
We'll send someone over
To bring you what you need
You're a one man death machine
Make this city bleed
Now I know you won't refuse
Because we've got so much to do
And you've got nothing more to lose
So take this number and welcome to
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in
The system boy, with nothing to sign
Operation : Mindcrime
We're an underground revolution
Working overtime
Operation : Mindcrime
If you come to see the doctor
Yeah he'll give you the cure
Operation : Mindcrime
Make something of your life boy
Let me into your mind
Operation : Mindcrime
There's a job for you in the system boy
With nothing to sign
Nikki: "Hey, hey, listen to me!"
[ Nikki was a loser. A street kid, left to fend for ]
[ himself at a young age. He was independent, and unpredictable, ]
[ but harmless. Except now he had a philosophy, and that made him ]
[ dangerous. ]
[ "Revolution!" was the word on his lips as he stood in the ]
[ streets and screamed, "Hey, listen to me!" ]
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They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new messiah
Death Angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word [Revolution!]
The word is all of us
I've given my life to become what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind, you've got to learn
To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow
The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, we'll burn the White House down
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word [Revolution!]
The word is all of us
Speak the word [Revolution!]
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
[Speak!]
[ Mary worked the S M shows in Times Square. At seventeen ]
[ she met Father William, who arranged her cloister with "Our Lady ]
[ of Immaculate Pain." A new life. A different way of living. ]
[ Except for her debt with him, which was expected to be paid in ]
[ full, weekly, "...on the altar. Like a sacrifice." ]
[ When she was eighteen, Father William introduced her to a ]
[ man named Dr. X. Now she works for him. ]
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She always brings me what I need
Without I beg and sweat and bleed
When we're alone at night
Waiting for the call
She feeds my skin
Sixteen and on the run from home
Found a job in Times Square
Working Live S M shows
Twenty-five bucks a fuck
And John's a happy man
She wipes the filth away
And it's back on the streets again
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
Father William saved her from the streets
She drank the lifeblood from the saviour's feet
She's Sister Mary now, eyes as cold as ice
He takes her once a week
On the alter like a sacrifice
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
Spoken: Religion and sex are powerplays
Manipulate the people for the money they pay
Selling skin, selling God
The numbers look the same on their credit cards
Politicians say no to drugs
While we pay for wars in South America
Fighting fire with empty words
While the banks get fat
And the poor stay poor
And the rich get rich
And the cops get paid
To look away
As the one percent rules America
Spreading the disease
Everybody needs
But no one wants to see
The way society
Keeps spreading the disease
[Sex]
[Sex]
[Sex]
[Sex]
[Sex]
[ Nikki spends quite a lot of time these days in his room; ]
[ drawing gruesome, detailed depictions of his victims' deaths ]
[ upon the dingy white walls. Drowning in guilt, he sees Sister ]
[ Mary as his only means to salvation. He lights another candle ]
[ and flips through the TV channels one by one. The familiar face ]
[ of Father William appears. ]
[ TV: ...informing Washington, a technical violation of the ]
[ 1972 AMB Treaty... ]
[ Father: ...I'm asking for hands to be uplifted in just a moment. ]
[ God the Holy Ghost is calling out to embrace you. I want ]
[ you to reach deep into your hearts and your pocketbooks ]
[ and take his hand. Some of you are in a state of ]
[ rebellion right now. You're saying... ]
[ Nikki: Bless me father, for I have sinned. ]
[ Is it wrong? Is it right? ...Ring! ...Ring! ]
[ "mindcrime!!" Decision made. ]
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In the wooden chair
Beside my pillow
I wear a face born in the falling rain
I talk to shadows from a lonely candle
Recite the phrases from the wall
I can't explain this holy pain
Six days ago my life had taken a tumble
The orders came from high above they say
A need to use me once again they've got my number
Further the cause boy yes you know the game
I'll wait here for days longer
Till the sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
She brings the only friend
That helps me find my way
I search the past back to a time
When I was younger
A target for the new society
Picked to displace the leaders
Countering objectives
Of this new underground reality
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
My love for her
Will help me find my way
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
It turned my life around
I look around my room is filled with candles
Each one a story but they end the same
I'll hide away in here the law will never find me
The walls will tell the story of my pain
Waiting for days longer
Till sister comes to wash my sins away
She is the lady who can ease my sorrow
She sets the pace for my delivery of pain
They'll say my mission saved the world
And I stood proud
My mission changed the world
The underground will rise and
Save this world we'll all stand proud
Our mission changed the world, we'll change the world
We'll all stand proud
[ A long, satin black sedan slides to a stop in front of ]
[ Nikki. The rain, beading on the dark, tinted windows, distorts ]
[ his reflection. Bemused by his melting facial features, he's ]
[ startled as the electric window descends revealing the smiling ]
[ face of Dr. X. ]
Dr. X: Kill her. That's all you have to do.
Nikki: Kill Mary?
Dr. X: She's a risk, and get the priest as well.
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| Suite sister Mary |
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10 P.M., I feel the rain coming down
My face feels the wet, my mind the storm
Flashing lights as people race to find shelter from the pour
Moving silent, through the streets, they're mine, they're mine
Midnite, she sings praises in the Hall
To saintly faces hallowed be their names she can't recall
Sister Mary, virgin Mary, silent with her sin
Mary: What are you doing out in the rain?
She feels me, I can taste her breath when she speaks
Mary: I've been waiting for you. Come in.
Mary, Mary just a whore for the underground
They made you pay in guilt for your salvation
Thought you had them fooled? Now they've sent me for you
You know too much for your own good
Don't offer me faith, I've got all I need here
My faith is growing, growing tight against the seam
What we need is trust, to keep us both alive
Help us make it through the night
Mary: I've no more want of any faith
Binds my arm and feed my mind
The only peace I've ever known
I'll close my eyes and you shoot
No Mary, listen, you've got to pull your strength from my lips
I pray I feed you well
Your precious cross is gone, it made me wait so long
For what you gave to everyone
The priest is cold and dead on his knees he fed
From my barrel of death, he turned the Holy water red
As he died he said thank you
I just watched him bleed
Mary: I feel the flow, the blessed stain
Sweating hands like fire, and flames
Burn my thighs, spread in sacrificial rite
The hallowed altar burns my flesh once more tonight
Mary, sweet lady of pain
Always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time
No time to rest yet
We've got to stop his game
Before madness has the final laugh
Too much bloodshed
We're being used and fed
Like rats in experiments
No final outcome here
Only pain and fear
It's followed us both all our lives
There's one thing left to see
Will it be him or me?
There's one more candle left to light
Mary: Don't turn your back on my disgrace
The blood of Christ can't heal my wounds... so deep
The sins of man are all I taste
Can't spit the memory from my mind
I can't cry anymore
Mary, my lady of pain, always alone
Blind you search for the truth
I see myself in you, parallel lives
Winding at light-speed through time, you're mine
[ Father William lay crumpled on the stairs leading to the ]
[ sanctuary. ]
[ Mary watches in disgust as her lover Nikki's troubled ]
[ face dissolves into the leering, drooling face of the priest ]
[ huffing and puffing above her. ]
[ "Altar... sacrifice..." something snaps inside her head. ]
[ Nikki feels the coldness overtake her. He pulls away, vowing to ]
[ kill Dr. X and set them both free of their master's ]
[ manipulations. ]
[ Pulling closed the huge door behind him, he stumbles into ]
[ the rainy night to keep his appointment with his "maker." ]
Nikki: I've had enough and I want out!
Dr. X: You can't walk away now. Hahahahahaha...
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| The needle lies |
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I looked back once
And all I saw was his face
Smiling, the needle crying
Walking out of his room
With mirrors, afraid I heard him scream
You'll never get away
Cold and shaking
I crawled down alleys to try
And scrape away the tracks that marked me
Slammed my face into walls of concrete
I stared, amazed at the words written on the wall
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
Wet and raving
The needle keeps calling me back
To bloody my hands forever
Carved my cure with the blade
That left me in scars
Now every time I'm weak
Words scream from my arm
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle, it lies
Don't ever trust
Don't ever trust the needle when it cries, cries your name
[ After Nikki leaves, Mary is plagued by the vision of ]
[ Nikki turning into Father William. As they made love on the ]
[ altar, the memories came flooding back. Years filled with men ]
[ who had used her, degraded and beaten her, and driven their ]
[ hatred and coldness into her heart. Once, she thought Nikki was ]
[ her hope. But now he seemed like all the rest. ]
[ She hated him. She hated men. She hated life. ]
[ Unable to shake his addiction, and feeling beaten in his ]
[ confrontation with Dr. X, Nikki returns. ]
Nikki: Anybody home?
Mary?
[ He finds her dead in her room. ]
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| Electric requiem |
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Even in death
You still look sad
Don't leave me
Don't leave me... here
I want what you feel, believe me
Turn the current on
[ Unable to accept Mary's death, Nikki runs like a raving ]
[ madman through the streets calling her name. Everywhere he looks ]
[ he sees her face. ]
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| Breaking the silence |
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They told me to run
But just how far
Can I go wearing the black mask of fear?
The hate in my eyes always gives me away
The tension building slowly
Now I lost everything I had in you
Nothing we shared means a thing
Without you close to me
I can't live without you
Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer me
There's no direction to my stare
No more flame burning in my heart anymore
Quiet, I keep it to myself
Until the sun sets slowly
I hear your voice in the evening rain calling
Nothing will keep us apart
No more lies and fear
There's no end to our story
Breaking the silence of the night
Can't you hear me screaming?
I look for your face in the neon light
You never answer
I could make all the wrong seem right
If you were by my side
I'd gather all the tears you cried
And hide them deep underground
Can't look back, it's just a waste of time
Can't erase this hate from my eyes
Breaking the silence of the night
Through the streets I'm screaming
Looking for you in the neon light
Why don't you answer me?
Breaking the silence with my cries
Can't you hear me screaming?
We could make all this wrong seem right
But you never answer me
Voices: We know you did it. Why'd you do it? Why'd you do it?
Nikki: No, no, no!
[ The police arrest Nikki. The charges are: disorderly ]
[ conduct, carrying a concealed weapon without a license, and ]
[ resisting arrest. They know he's a junkie because of the tracks ]
[ on his arms. His weapon also matches the one used in a string of ]
[ recent killings. Nikki isn't making much sense now, babbling on ]
[ about perverted priests, some kind of covert operation, and not ]
[ believing in love. ]
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| I don't believe in love |
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I awoke on impact
Under surveillance from the camera eye
Searching high and low
The criminal mind found at the scene of the crime
Handcuffed and blind, I didn't do it
She said she loved me
I guess I never knew
But do we ever, ever really know?
She said she'd meet me on the other side
But I knew right then, I'd never find her
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No more nightmares, I've seen them all
From the day I was born, they've haunted my every move
Every open hand's there to push and shove
No time for love it doesn't matter
She made a difference
I guess she had a way
Of making every night seem bright as day
Now I walk in shadows, never see the light
She must have lied 'cause she never said goodbye
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
No chance for contact
There's no raison d'etre
My only hope is one day I'll forget
The pain of knowing what can never be
With or without love it's all the same to me
I don't believe in love
I never have, I never will
I don't believe in love
I'll just pretend she never was real
I don't believe in love
I need to forget her face, I see it still
I don't believe in love
It's never worth the pain that you feel
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[Instrumental]
[Left alone, Nikki thinks of Mary; of the night she died, ]
[ and why. He wonders about his future. Who will be there to care ]
[ for him and be his friend? ]
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| My empty room |
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Empty room today
And here I sit
Chalk outline upon the wall
I remember tracing it
A thousand times, the night she died. Why? Why?
There's no sleep today, I can't pretend
When all my dreams are crimes
I can't stand facing them
Now who will come
To wash away my sins
Clean my room, fix my meals
Be my friend?
[ Charged with several murders, Nikki is committed to State ]
[ Hospital to overcome his addiction. Awaiting trial, he suffers ]
[ insomnia and is delirious. ]
[ Searching through his past, he tries to find reasons for ]
[ his actions and his weaknesses. Staring into the mirror, he sees ]
[ a stranger. ]
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| Eyes of a stranger |
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PA: Dr. Davis, telephone please. Dr. Davis
Dr. Blair, Dr. Blair, Dr. J. Hamilton, Dr. J Hamilton
All alone now
Except for the memories
Of what we had and what we knew
Every time I try to leave it behind me
I see something that reminds me of you
Every night the dreams return to haunt me
Your rosary wrapped around your throat
I lie awake and sweat, afraid to fall asleep
I see your face looking back at me
Looking back at me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
Is this all that's left
Of my life before me
Straight jacket memories, sedative highs
No happy ending like they've always promised
There's got to be something left for me
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
[Lies behind my stare]
How many times must I live this tragedy
How many more lies will they tell me
All I want is the same as everyone
Why am I here, and for how long
And I raise my head and stare
Into the eyes of a stranger
I've always known that the mirror never lies
People always turn away
From the eyes of a stranger
Afraid to know what
Lies behind the stare
[Mindcrime...]
[And welcome...]
[Speak!]
[REVOLUTION!]
6:01 PM
Nikki: I remember now.
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