TopTenREVIEWS presents the reviews for Operation: Mindcrime
Email to a friend
Operation: Mindcrime
by Queensryche
ALBUM RANKINGS:
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews and awards.
Overall Rating:
3.4407
Avg. Critic Score:
4.0000
Operation: Mindcrime Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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!!!
- 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
- 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
- In the wooden chair
- Beside my window
- 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
- 'til sister comes to wash my sins away
- She is the lady that can ease my sorrow
- My love for her
- Will help me find my way
- 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
- [Spoken:]
- [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."
- 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
- [Spoken:]
- [Nikki:] "I've had enough and I WANT OUT!"
- [Dr. X:] "You can't walk away now."
- 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
- ([Nikki:] "Anybody home? Mary?")
- 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
- 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
- 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 lovev 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
- [Instrumental]
- 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?
- [Page:] Dr. David, telephone please. Dr. David
- 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
- Everytime 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
- 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
- Eyes of a Stranger midi
Sponsored Links
Copyright © 2003 - 2008 TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of TopTenREVIEWS, Inc. is prohibited.
New Reviews Newsletter
Want to be notified when new review sites are announced? Sign up for our email review notifications.