Enter Shikari

Huddled in this acid nation, With apprehension, You are expected, to go down in dread, Huddled in this acid nation, With apprehension, You are expected, to go down in dread, This is a celebration of, Spirit and our mind. When your bodies resignation,...

And I long for you to appear After losing your way across star riddled skies To carry you home [x2] I cherish my loss A gentle reminder, that life is unkind At the best of times And I long for you to appear After losing your way across star riddled skies To...

A field, desolate And underfoot A tarmac river flows I wait to depart An inconceivable aught When you're no wings and all elbows Oh, it's so cold I watch my breath unfold It wraps us in a cloud of gloom Through adversity Hope must not Become the...

22nd of June, 209 AD, A crowd gathers. Ohhh they fuckin' love a good beheading. Watch as St.Alban's head, rolls down the hill. The crowd stood still, 'cause what they just saw, It petrified them to the core, Ahhh to the core. Ahhhhhh. As the executioner raise...

(Anaesthetist) (Anaesthetist) Doctor, fetch the anaesthetist (Anaesthetist) Fetch the anaesthetist So when I go under the knife I believe in this Fetch the anaesthetist (Anaesthetist) Fetch the anaesthetist So when I go under the knife I believe! Yo...

Now I was feeling like a total giant! But now it feels like Silvius Brabo has sliced my hand off and thrown it in the river! Man, I was just doing my job, my feet sink into the bed of the Schledt. But now my fingers are reeling about with the fishes. I kno...

His eyes are locked on her, Her eyes are fixed elsewhere, He’s confident, but he's not aware, She doesn't care. Their only connection, is the silence that they both grasp, he's lost control, but she’s not aware, of his stare. Everything seems to intimidate him...

This is an expedition, Into the Arctic tundra! This is a sickening mision, Yeah! Just to spoil and plunder! That's the sound of another doors shutting in, In the face of progress, in the face of progress. No bounded flags, In the sea bed. Shackleton is r...

I refuse to notice the wind or the rain To teach me of nature would be done in vain I ignore all: I just contain Predicated on a great disconnect I don't react and I do not reflect I just ignore all: I just retain The invisible hand no longer guides...

An aidless and harrowing future is developing for our generation and generations to come. But as I walk the chartered streets of this familiar oblivion I recognize nothing but underling unconsciousness. In which we have almost comfortably drowned. It is madn...

Packing the last few shirts into a bloated suitcase The last glimpse of comfort and the ticking clock face I swear those hands move faster every day I'm more confused than ever but I don't beg or pray 'cause the Sparkling light from the morning sun I...

I never walked on the moon I never saw the pyramids I was never struck by famine or fortune I never experienced the world you inhabit I never experienced the world you inhabit I never swum with dolphins I never sang from a mountain top I was no invent...

(Today for the very first time We started planning out the ultimate crime Lock it together to destroy this cold stasis Rory C, what’s your thesis? I don't f-king believe it) Institutes are established and invested Pause to ask, get it tried and tested? No, ju...

A blank sheet of paper is just begging to be filled But tonight I cannot pour my heart out Because you escaped with it in your back pocket Because you escaped with it in your back pocket Television remote controls cannot save me From destroying myself Under t...

Shit! Shit! I've been hiding here for a thousand years, waiting for your ghost I've been hiding here for a thousand years, waiting for your ghost Your life's about to flash before your eyes Your life's about to flash before your eyes Stand your ground, this...

Each nation used to provide its country with security with factories providing arms for their country Now multinational companies compete in the arms trade to serve any customer, maximising the money to be made So just as farms compete to provide fruit for ot...

His eyes are locked on her, Her eyes are fixed elsewhere, He's confident, but he's not aware, She doesn't care. Their only connection, is the silence they both grasp, he's lost control, but she's not aware, of his stare. Everything seems to intimidate hi...

And let there be life One space, a universe. Our world, born like a blind child One confined habitat. And asks the same questions that we ask. And asks the same questions that we ask. And let there be life One soul, one universe. Our world, born like a blind...

Now, I don't know about you, but I don't think the primary purpose of your life, of my life and the entirety of the human race's is just to blindingly consume to support a failing economy and a faulty system. Forever and ever until we run out of every resource...

And I lie here staring up at the stratosphere and hoping we're gonna get out of here And it seems mad that we're born on the doorstep of squalor and of pedistools And I lie here surrounded by a range of general anaesthetics To drowse the fact that fumbling...

The lions are at the door We ain't taking orders from snakes no more The lions are at the door, Yeah We ain't taking orders from snakes no more Knock knock Yeah I'd like that boy Just another day in the acid nation Expect it to go down hindrance Hold tight...

Now let's cause some fucking havoc! The lions are at the door, We ain't taking order from snakes no more. The lions are at the door, yeah! We ain't taking order from snakes no more. Stand by... Receiving... stand by for a second message. Now we're gonna tak...

To the multi story car park With our friends drinking from a bottle of white lightning on top of marks and sparks roof running smoking chronic hectic! and it seems that nothing now will ever change. and it seems that were on our own again and it seems that...

Hello Tyrannosaurus, meet Tyrannicide You haven't read your history have you? Just regurgitated lies And everything taught to you, no man is too tall You can grow but remember, empires always fall We're not your subjects, You're not our King Nature is the onl...

This is the voice of God You've got it, you've got it Stay in and lock your doors I don't care what you've achieved There's only one location if you don't follow me (You always get what you wanted) You're gonna burn in a blistering furnace From now unt...

We can travel over the highest mountains And die away next morning we will reach the sky I need to be loved tonight Take my body and crucify Right now (Chorus) I am lost and don't wanna be found I don't know how we'll get to shore Give me that give me...

(Hey Guys Lets Go) Rise, taste the air, lock and load, pull the trigger, Climb, to new heights, and tell me, tell me what you hear... A whisper from the wind, and i cant help but listen, It warns us of disaster, and i cant help but wonder, Can anyone hear th...

And I know that we've still got time But I do not think we're invincible And I think that it is a sign 'Cos I do not think we're invincible Crushing all in it's path (x4) Now don't get me wrong I love what you done with the place I just wish we had a chance...

I'm biting the blade of your scissors As the champagne fizzes Keep it on ice There's plenty more biting to do yet Words dribble from my mouth As I freeze your lungs So have little hope Of penetrating Your fucking noodle is tangled Your fucking noodle's been t...

I spent my time watchin' the spaces that have grown between us And I cut my mind on second best or the scars that come with the greenness And I gave my eyes to the boredom still the seabed wouldn't let me in And I tried my best to embrace the darkness i...

Deck chairs out lads,heres the spot, a spanking panoramic view. The soil here is silk, the air is SELECTIVE! Whose lungs shall I fill with my glorious vapours Whose lungs shall I fill with my glory? BREATHE IN,BREATHE OUT STAND TALL,STAND PROUD Taking in al...

Help! the air turns black, the birds drop from the sky. This eagle has landed, I'm choking on your pride And the walls are closing in, And you don't appreciate that in my hands tonight, is where your fate lies Her face drains... [Stand] Stand up, take a bow...

I wanna live outside, live outside of all of this I wanna live outside, live outside of all of this I keep calling, keep hauling, keep hauling them back I can't stand, can't stand, can't stand this attack This neuron buzz is on another level I'm on thin...

It's your future Ohhhhhhh This is 'gonna change everything (x3) System meltdown (PHAT DROP! ) Stand up How we gonna get through this alive?, get through this alive It's not too late, it's not too late Stand up How we gonna get out this alive?, get out o...

Go tell all your friends that this is the end Go tell all your friends that this is the end Go tell all your friends that this is the end This is the end I don't understand a word you're saying What are the crowds running from There's something in the air ton...

Drip, drip, drop, bit by bit, it’s the dulcet sound of the glacial melt Accompanied by the Beluga, singing about the hand they’ve been dealt. The Emperor and the Arctic Fox listen intently. "I’m beginning to get glimpses of what is called real life," he...

Like Socrates I only graze on the slopes Of the summit of my own ignorance Like Hippocrates I can affirm that the method of science Is an appliance that emancipates us from dogma and slant and bias The seasons are changing Ah the seasons are changing...

And I'm thinking what's the deal With the facts that they conceal? And I'm thinking what's the harm In a bit of rhetoric and charm? And I can't quite comprehend A beginning or an end No I can't quite stomach this No! You and me we're gonna take To the skies f...

Where's your respect Where's your respect Why bite the hand that feeds It's not over yet not over yet Plenty more fingers for you to nibble I'd like to see you get your teeth round this I'm sure your jaw will be surely missed Not even salt can make your hands...

And you’d better be yourself yourself tastes better better than pieces of your heart (x2) Buy me some Indians to oppose my bored dead cowboys Buy me some time to spend Staring into your eyes... Caught sipping from the cup of denial your precious addiction Yo...

Let this battle commence, one last time! Let this battle commence, one last time! Let this battle commence, one last time! [And I hope for your sake, that you're on our side] Let this battle commence, one last time! [And I hope for your sake, that you're on ou...

Here behind those eyes There is something you should know Change cannot be subject to conditional falls 'Cos we're squatting in a system That consistantly stalls Don't be fooled into thinking That a small group of friends Cannot change the world That's the...

Analysis of the human race in twenty-eleven AD We've got the technology to move forward We've got the knowledge and the means, to build upstream We've got the technology to go faster We've got the passion and the talent to make this real But we're so fucking a...

I torture rock stars with pliers They're so stock, it wouldn't be a shock If I open them up to see wires I destroy all amplifiers People climbing over bodies like spiders I'm on stage with a face like a sack of screwdrivers It's gonna be a show stop, roa...

To take away our expression Is to impoverish our existence Oi! Yeah, kick it! Yeah! It's insatiable; what we're waiting for So to keep us from falling apart We'll write songs in the dark And to keep us from fading away We'll write for a better day So to ke...

My heart beats in my head and it's thunderous Those caught in the rat race plunder us They know what's best for us They know what's best for us Gotta keep up, gotta get ahead Gunna go and get a job and work 'til I'm dead They know what's best for us Th...

We drift apart, we drift apart We drift apart, we drift apart If there's one reason to smile It's when you look up out at night You're fortunate enough To drink in a vista A 100 billion flares Display a glowing history Splayed out across a canvas, the...

You look like you Rented a smile From someone but you Rented the wrong size Take it back You should take it back BURY IT That's not what you want That's not what you want Cause that would grow more That's not what you want That's not what you want We still...

It was score 22 days ago since i carved you out of the finest pine it's now my quest to find all the splinters you gave that scar my mind What would you rather be? (x3) Hated and remembered? or just forgotten? When her last breath echoes "you complete me" "y...

know that we're going to repeat history, Unless we sort this out. I know that we've got to find something new, Something new. Now my crew is six thousand million strong, And we're not learning from. A history of conflict and violence, For ownership and...

Surrounded Sunk deep in the dense embrace of the forest I imagine this is the polar opposite of suffocation My lungs seem to gain extra capacity here And I feel like an empty inbox As I, contemplate the ultimate assault course The roots, the stumps, the...

"Oi fucks, let's eat 'ere, it looks niiice" Get me the manager "Oh dear, what seems to be the problem sir?" First of all I was greeted with a grimace Service with a sneer He don’t want to be here Second of all I was seated by the window and the draug...

OH! Here tonight I clock a thousand heads Here to unite, through common dreads So who’s with me? OH! Now who’s with me? OH! Something drips inside That’s been building for a thousand years Now we can no longer hide The immediacy of these fears Our names wil...

Scratch card glory, waist low pleasure? Black eyes nose bleeds, don't look back now My white abode, do you remember? My white abode, But it's such a thrill just to find out... Sorry you're not a winner With the air so cold and a mind so bitter Wh...

Come and join the party leave anxieties behind When the weight of all the world is pushing down. Nah nah nah cut this tension mate it's too much. Situation volatile, seriously hostile Breadwinners, Soul searchers, Fear merchants, Seeking. Brightly col...

Previous wars make billionaires out of millionaires, Todays wars make trilionaires out of billionaires Tomorrows wars will fuel generations of hate, generations of hate I'm losing my grip on reality I can not simply agree that we are civilised Acting like thi...

SHIT! SHIT! I've been hiding here for a thousand years, waiting for your ghost I've been hiding here for a thousand years, waiting for your ghost YOUR LIFES ABOUT TO FLASH BEFORE YOUR EYES YOUR LIFES ABOUT TO FLASH BEFORE YOUR EYES Stand your ground, this is...

If our own lives aren’t directly affected, then it don’t need to be corrected! Our fucking gift is our ignorance, As they’re praying for deliverance. We shutter ourselves from the outcries, We blinker ourselves from the eyesores… Cause I know we have greatness...

[Rou] You could live slow, die old, like a sub-sea floor microbe Set foot sharpish That's one small step for man, that's one quantum leap For mankind, now we redefine, we unify We electrocute, we don't follow suit [Pre-Chorus] We're gonna supercharge...

There was a house in a field on the side of a cliff And the waves crashing below were just said to be a myth So they ignore the warnings from the ships in the docks Now the house on the cliff is the wreckage on the rocks There was a house in a field on the si...

Don't wanna take my country back I wanna take my country forward Don't wanna take my country back I wanna take my country forward Don't wanna take my country back Everyone's preaching to the choirs Words billow up and get trapped in trash fires Wisps o...

This is an appeal to the struggling and striving stakeholders of this planet, this floating rock we call Earth. Alas, that means you. That means everyone of your acquaintance, every figure your eyes skim past in the street, every charlatan still to defeat...

I am a mindsweeper, focus on me I will read your mind It goes on and on... Through volatile territory Through the plains of advertisy and the ravines of neurosis Through the veins of gods and the valley of death But remember you are not alone And we...

I refuse to notice to the wind or the rain To teach me of nature would be done in vain I ignore all: I just contain Predicated on a great disconnect I don't react and I do not reflect I ignore all: I just retain The invisible hand no longer guides, i...

You provoke tears that stain, you control my face You arrange it to show, a broken expression I hate to be the bearer of bad news As the cracks appear to run But we'll meet again on better terms. You provoke tears that stain, you control my face You arrange it...

We're trapped in the ribcage of a wildebeast, Come join the feast. Since the head is not attached on, We'll eat our way out now! The orangutan is quite content, sipping its, champagne! The minotaur has lost its cool, it's time to start his rave. So raise you...

"Simmer down ladies and gentlemen, simmer down. You're acting rather irresponsibly right now, damn you all!" Hold your horses, steady now, 'Cos we're floating precariously and therefore furthermore frivolously On tectonic plates And everything we stand...

Can you hear the war-cry? The adrenaline bursts through the riverbanks. Welcome to the skirmish. I can’t feel my legs. Give me a morphine, Give me morphine, Give me more! No doubt, this is a tragedy for all, but it ain't over yet. Head's up and...

As one child is thought red on his mother's knee - the one true colour A neighbour is tought blue on his mother's knee - the one true colour With a fervour inherited, it will be subsequently delivered Ignore the spectrum Dear whom it may concern, I feel...

To be strung up on a leafless tree, Where everything dies and nothing grows Hanging like moulding fruit One last dance whilst you decompose On come the paddington spectacles A black plague over all I admired A vegetable breakfast, a hearty choke Seems like th...

Are you staying awake for the liftoff, tonight? You'll never believe the sights tonight The sights tonight, the sights Are you staying awake for the liftoff, tonight? You'll never believe the sights tonight The sights tonight Mr. Magpie You got distrac...

I am upper class I-I am upper class Upper middle lower class I am lower class I-I am lower class Lower upper middle class I am upper middle class I am living in the past Yeah! There's a price on your head Unknown to you There's a price on your Unk...

And let there be life One space,a universe. Our world,born like a blind child One confined habitat And asks the same questions that we ask. And asks the same questions that we ask. And in this frozen landscape, And in this frozen landscape, I need you. I col...

Yes, axiomatic subject matter, executed with absolute lucidity. We can't keep deferring action, only surviving by the skin of our teeth. We can't keep deferring action, only surviving by the skin of our teeth. We're sick of the same old story, tonight the mot...

You might never meet me, For I am King. And as we march into the storms eyes, I find relief in the rain. I can hind as I lead my army, Into certain death. Eyes over you. [x2] Feel Alive. [x4] And I wanted you to know, Today won't go down in stone. (Feel Ali...

A naked eye Conspires with fear to form an idea so destructive and insincere Reared in our mind but outside you'll find that nature does not align Align Align hey You see there's more variation, more variation there's more within populations Variation...

Shikari Was third generation Aztec His tribe accepting human reality It was the basis of their ability to sustain with humble tranquillity Civilisations encouraged religions which in turn introduced depravity And that was a bigger realisation as when my boy Ne...

I'm gonna paste you up, cover you in wallpaper Screw shelves into you and call you a wall That's all you are to me, trying to keep people inside Inside your sordid little house This is no white abode You can have skirting board shoes and plug sockets on your k...

And with these humble tools We can trigger any emotion we choose But we'll just settle to pump out repeated relics diluted with time You see the airwaves are clogged up But the fickle they, lap it up They need to be drowned in condiments And left to Ponder Se...

And what comes next? a chance to save yourself here we are again counting rays with you again for our empires and the last of days what built sciences are going to break again? one day we're going to light up the stars we can breathe in space, they just don'...

And we'll grip each other tight In this desolate canteen That' sells his life at a price That I'm not prepared to pay [to pay] go ahead and shoot us it'll only take one bullet Go ahead and shoot us (x2) In this desolate cantine I'll sell his life at a price B...

These war's are directly out of order mate You get me? They're past their sell-by date serious I don't think you fucking get me Listen! Mate! I'm zonked, absolutly spent I think I've gotta give my eyes up for lent I’ll use my sockets to stock stones in...