THROBBING GRISTLE WORDS
Lyrics

© Genesis P-Orridge, published by Peer Music 1980, except where noted.


Slug Bait
Maggot Death
United
Zyklon B Zombie
We Hate You (Little Girls)
Weeping
Five Knuckle Shuffle
Hit By a Rock
Blood on the Floor
Still Walking
Convincing People
Hot on the Heels of Love
What a Day
Persuasion
Six Six Sixties
The Old Man Smiled


SLUG BAIT:
Slug bait
Can't wait
Slug slug bait
Can't can't wait

I crawl up the grass to your window
And then open up your room very slow.

Slug bait
Can't wait

I walk into your bedroom
Then I look at you with your seven months pregnant womb

Slug bait
Can't can't wait

I get your husband to your front bedroom
I cut his balls of with my knife KNIFE
I make him eat them right there
In front of his pregnant wife WIFE
He's into his balls off
I look at him very slow

Slug slug bait
Can't can't wait

As he bleeds to death on the floor
I want you to say don't do any more

Slug slug bait
Can't cannot cannot wait

I look at your big heavy stomach
It's already moving a little bit with your baby
I use the carving knife from your kitchen
I start to perform the operation
You say "No, no don't do that!"
I say, "I don't give a ... cat's whiskers."

Slug bait
Can't wiat [Note: yes this is actually what he says!]

I pull out your baby
I chew his hand off with my teeth
I lick him clean
It's obscene
As you bleed to death I kill it
I'm just a wicked boy

Slug slug bait bait
Can't can't wait wait
Slug slug bait
Can't Can't wait
Slug bait


MAGGOT DEATH:
Play a little game
Play your little game
Without any name
Put a record on
Put a record on
Maggot death
Maggot death
Maggot death
Maggot death
Maggot death
Maggots loose
Bad for you
I walk your park
A walk in the park
Feel the same
Play for time
I see the wife every time
I see the white leather thights
I got an act you want
I tell you what to do
I'm gonna ask you home
I know just what to do
Maggot death
Maggot death
Maggot death (Screams)
Maggot death
Maggot death
Maggot death
What did you want
Just a silly tart
You gotta go out now
Make you pay for death
Maggot death
Maggot death (just you)
You're just a lump in my bed
Eating up my head


UNITED:
You and I
You and I
Living together
Loving forever
At our distance
Another for instance
United United
You become me
And I becomy you
She is she
And she is you too
United United
A corresponding game to play
A special way for us to stay
United United
Its a lie
Its the same
It's a sigh
It's a game
Its the why
Its the where and the when we're United
United
You and I You and I
United United
Four faces blending blending blending
Neverending
Our places sending
Shades of evening
You and I You and I United United
Oceans between us
Sky between us
Land between us
Fire between us
We're United United

Can't stop it

United United
You are my Knight
You are my night-night my evening
Its very plain to say
Its a strange system
You miss them
You want to be them
You have to see them
You have to be them
United United
You and me la la la la
You and I
Make ourselves forever together forever and ever
United United
Love is the law
Love is the law
Love is the law
Love is the law
United United United You and I You and I United
TIme will see us
Time will free us
Time will be us
We are everywhere
There is no why
There is no sky anymore
There is just us United
United


ZYKLON B ZOMBIE:
I'm just alittle jewish girl
Ain't got no clothes on
And if I had a steel hammer
I'd smash your teeth in
And as I walk her to to the gas chamber
I'm out there laughing

Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie Zombie
Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie Zombie

And if I had a little leather
I'd rub your tail off
I'm just a poor jewish girl
I've got no clothes pm
And as I walk into the room
They're all stood laughing

Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie
Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie

And if I had a little manners
I'd beat the call-up
While the people in the chamber
They form a pyramid
And as I kiss the shiny leather
I've got no clothes on

Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie
Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie

AND THEN MY HEAD SPLIT OPEN!

Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie Zombie
Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie

See all these little jewish girls
They have no clothes on
And with my mind I see you
With all your clothes on
And so I spare you from your friends
Who I give Zyklon
Just as they take a big warm breath
Some more pure Zyklon

Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie
Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie
Zyklon Zyklon Zyklon B Zombie [repeat]


WE HATE YOU (LITTLE GIRLS):
We hate you little girls
All the time
Everytime little girls
I hate you little girls
With your little curls
And your pretty dress
And your little breasts
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you little girls
I hate you little girls
I hate your little tits
I hate your little clits
I hate your mother too
I hate you
I hate you
I hate you HATE YOU
I hate you fucking little girls
I hate
We hate
You hate
They hate
We hate you little girls
I hate you


WEEPING:
[lyrics by Ewa Zajac/GPO]

I want to make you happy just a little
I want to find you something which is certain
I found nothing lying, weeping, bleeding
You never saw me weeping on the floor

It's impossible to advise anybody
Be courageous, take it easy, just show trust
Be reasonable, be an old ghost weeping
You didn't see me weeping on the floor
You didn't see me weeping on the floor

My arm is torn open like a wound
My universe is coming from my mouth
I spent a year or two, listening to you
Discrediting myself for you
You didn't see me on the floor weeping
You didn't see me lying by the door
You didn't see me swallowing my tablets
You can't look inside my eyes no more

Weeping Weeping Weeping

We created cars to fight for space to be in
We created work to waste our time
We created love, so one can be the victim
We all need as a result, we all need love
But don't know what to do with it
What's the sense of a situation we can't fight
It's alright when you both want to fight
But when one of them doesn't want to fight
It's the end of love.

Just looking at first degree burns
I'm weeping (I can't sing a song like this)
Weeping
You didn't see me weeping on the floor
You didn't see me lying on the floor
You didn't see me weeping on the floor
Alone on the floor

I'm basically nothing like this
We're all on the floor
I don't want to carry on
Except I can't even cease to exist
And that's the worst


FIVE KNUCKLE SHUFFLE:
Even more fed up
You're gonna get fed up
You're gonna be fed up
You're gonna see fed up
You're gonna get fed up
Fed Up Fed Up Fed Up
You're gonna get set up
You're gonna go fed up
You're gonna go bed up
You're gonna go sped up
You're gonna be said up
You're gonna get set up
A set up a fed up a set up
I said what a get up
Am fed up Am fed up Am fed up
Am fuckin a fed up
Am fucking my bed up
Amphetamine
Am fucking amphetamine
I've had a lobotomy
A botom a botomy
Am always a victim
Am tired of the victim
A time of the victor
A try to assess me
A try to possess me
Assess possess amphetamine
A friend of mine
Here you are
We're here are two
Are you
You over there
You're the one I am
I am that lazy boy all over take some more I need some sleep
Just an animal a twisted up animal I want to be left alone
I want that not to assess me not to possess me not to attack me
Not to distract me I even get fed up
Fed up
Don't do this I do this All my friends do this Am fed up
Am fed up I put my feet up I wish I go to sleep
Fed up fed up fed up
Deaded Deaded
Empty bottles makin noise
Alcohol
I can see you fed up
In the corner asking
Gonna be set up all night set up
Fed up
Getting your way with a five pound note


HIT BY A ROCK
How's that? How's that?

How's that? How's that?
How's that? How's that?
How's that? How's that?
Hit by a rock
Spoiling my breakfast
Hit by a rock
Blood and brains on my marmalede
Anti-hero Anti-hero
Hit by a rock
Hit by a rock
I see your face right in my marmalede
Feel like throwing up but I can't say
Hit by a rock
Hit by a rock
Makes my meal OK
Makes me feel someday
Hit by a rock
Hit by a rock
Hit by a rock
Hit by a rock
Who did it?
Who did it?
Whose is it?
Hit by a rock
Hit by a rock
Makes me think you don't like my records...


BLOOD ON THE FLOOR
I've got to tell you
It's that blood, blood on the floor
It's that blood, blood on the floor
It's that blood, blood on the floor
It's that blood, blood on the floor

At the little school I went out
I broke the rules
School bully with his
Crew cut and his big shoulders
Telling me I was a pansy
Just like always
Blood on the floor
Blood on the door, dooor


STILL WALKING:
still walking
share of thee water
in its element
like all of us
like a book
spell of semen
wall of silence
or too?
this end
or all of us
he said
all of us do it
each time asleep
each time he said
especially again
especially item
the totem was his
the uncle was his
every time it fell open
at the same ritual
ever time she said
the words he cried
and no one saw
that's how it is
he said
that's the whole problem
each time
she said


CONVINCING PEOPLE:
There was never a way
And there's never a day
To convince people
You can play their game
You can say their name
But you won't convince people
There's several ways
There's several ways
To convince people
It's the name of the game
It's the game of the name
Convincing people
Convincing people
There's several ways
There's several ways
To convince people
And there's several days
And there's never a way
To convince people

There's one way though
That you'll never convince people
And that's when you try
To be someone
Who's not telling
And who's trying to compel
Who's trying to tell you
What you ought to be
Convinced of


So there's several ways
And there's several days
To convince your people
And you are the people
Convincing people
Convincing people
There's never a way
And there's never a day
To convince people
There's several ways
There's several days
We don't want to convince people
Let me tell you
I'll tell you what I want you to do
It's no way, no way, no way
To convince people

HOT ON THE HEELS OF LOVE:
I'm hot on the heels of love
Waiting for help from above


PERSUASION:
Persuasion
You gotta get some
Persuasion
You gotta get some
Look at me I touch your breast
Look at me I touch your knees
And I persuade you
Like always I persuade you
Like always I persuade you
Persuasion
Look at me I touch your head
I say the words and you got to bed
My sister and my mother
My father and my son
Do everthing I want them to
With persuasion
One lot of persuasion
Like always persuasion
Now there's lots of ways to persuade you
I could do it with money
I could look at you
I could show you all that
You might as well do it anyway
You might as well choose to play the game
After all you've seen yourself before
What difference does it make if I take your photograph?
What difference does it make if someone else sees it too?
All your friends do it
I mean nobody will know it's you
Anybody, it could be any body
I mean, these magazines, you know.
They only go to middle aged men
So why don't you do as I suggest
I persuade you
With words I persuade you
Persuasion
I've got a little biscuit tin
To keep your panties in
Soilde panties, white panties, school panties, Y-Front
panties
By the canal, by the canal
And I persuade you
Look at me
Look at me
There's a certain word and a certain touch
A certain way and a way too much
There's a little bit here
And a little bit there
When you've done it all it's too late to care
Oh I persuade you
Like always I persuade you
Look in my eye
Under your covers
I touch you
And tell you what to do
Do it because I tell you
Do it because I love you
And I persuade you
Persuasion


WHAT A DAY:
What a day
What a day
What a dull day
What a day
What a day
What a dull day
All day all day
All dull day
What an awful day
What a terrible day
All day
All day
What a day
What a day
What a dull day
What a day


SIX SIX SIXTIES:
I am one of the injured
A tear blurs flesh
Dissolving
Like an injured dog
Like wasted limbs
Get smaller
Pain is the stimulus of pain
But then of course nothing is cured
This is the world now
Move a fin and the world turns
Sit in a chair and pictures change
Try to eat us
And get trapped
Or injured
Just


THE OLD MAN SMILED:
The Old Man Smiled
Will you die for me?
Do you love me enough to give up your life?
Standing here in the desert
The crumbling city
How much do you love me?
Can the world be as sad as it seems?
At this the old man smiled
Sitting there in Tangier
Scars running from his wrist to his elbow
Perhaps I’ll buy his book today
And I look at the boy with me hand on his thigh
As I move to the bed in the corner
And he started to smile
A plaintive smile of the boy as he lies on the bed
And the old man smiled as his 
Prick started to twitch twitch twitch 
And little drops felt out and fell to the floor
And he looked to the side
Wondering what to do with his knowledge
Cold cold water in the bowl by the bed on the floor
23 days and 23 hours of the day
And the old man smiled as the being swelled and the blood came
As he stuck the needle in his arm
Watching the blood burning and turning in the glass
Wondering where he’d be sitting tomorrow
Wondering which table his person would pass that day
Sitting in a café in Tangier
And down to his cable came Captain Clark
He’d worked on the ferry for 23 years and a day
Taking the junkies and the babies and the corpses to Spain
Looking at the coffins in a line across the water
You sink if you’re dead
Cold cold water
A cloud up above
And everyone’s equal if it rains on you
And the old man smiled
And his arm bent as he paid the bill
So I walked round the corner
To a room in the Bowery
And the boy was bent double naked on the floor
Rubbing himself with some kind of cream
And is this all a dream
Look at the blind men
Sitting in a row with white sticks
Takking at the TV screen
And they try to eat us
By the broken bed
They’re always mad
And Captain Clark welcomes you aboard
Flight 23 from New York to Mayami
And it crashes in a forest
Burning bodies growing clod
People spewing blood from their faces
Screaming “Why me?” “Why?”
And everyone says I’m mad 
And everyone says I’m mad
The always say I’m mad
And I see myself in the gutter and the water
With the water wing gangrene dangling myself
Cos we really want to slaughter
Looking wide-eyed and so confused at the wall
It’s gone on so long I wonder just who is here
Cold cold water
Cold cold water
And the old man smiled as he walked back to the café
Drinking coffee as his friends just stood around
Can the world be as sad as it seems?
Do you love me?
With my knife against your throat
It could only be me
You would only do this for me
And the old man smiled
Just the same as before
Slowly getting old arranging his things
Making business neat and tidy
Sitting in a café in Tangier
That’s the way the world ends
With a whimper