1980년에 결성되어 불과 3년 만인 1983년 해체되었던 전설적인 포스트 펑크 그룹 미션 오브 버마의 베스트 앨범. 미국 보스톤에서 결성의 기치를 올렸던 그들은 시원하고 화끈한 펑크 사운드를 무기로 대규모 열혈 추종자들을 휘하에 집결시켰다. 그러면서도 캐치한 멜로디가 전편에 살아있어 팝적인 훅도 만만치 않게 뿜어낸다. 정규 트랙은 물론 미발표곡들까지 보너스로 수록한 미션 오브 버마의 ‘진정한’ 베스트 컬렉션으로 손색이 없다. .... ....
Walk into my room Ask me jerky questions Don't mean what you say Immaculate protection Play by the rules So close to the vest Hope that all's not lost And this is not a waste
Stay just as far from me As me from you Make sure that you are sure Of everything I do 'Cause I'm not not not not not not not not Your academy Your academy
The halls smell like piss The rooms are underlit Still it must be nice You're such a perfect fit What's that I hear? The sound of marching feet It has a strange allure It has a strange... allure
Stay just as far from me As me from you Make sure that you are sure Of everything I do 'Cause I'm not not not not not not not not Your academy Your academy
Maybe you're right I shouldn't judge What's wrong or right This is too much I'm not judging you, I'm judging me My academy Your academy My academy Your academy
The face at the window The features I know I try to escape but The world is too slow The question is big The question is wide I can't see around it I see only one side
I hid from the heavens The heaviest sleep Deserve the unwanted When love is so deep Now I was touching you The pleasures are past And now there is only The houses we pass
The dreams are all melting Only to reform Outside the heavens Where thoughts are reborn Where thoughts are reborn Where thoughts are reborn
Every raw material at hand Remember all the things you said you'd do? ..........................................? What happens next? What happens now? What happens next? And the need for a book....? Conditioned by steps... One Two Three Four Often seems that opportunity knocks When the door is bolted The door is locked The door is bolted And the door is locked Don't take me by the hand Don't take me by the hand Don't take me by the hand Don't take me by the hand Don't take me by the hand Don't take me by the hand The tools of the trade are the head and the heart And the joke I know And the joke I know And the joke I know What I will be when I grow up If I grow up When I grow up Throw away the brainwash Throw away the brainwash Throw away the brainwash (And I give up) Don't give up (And I give up) Don't give up (And I give up) Don't give up Don't give in Learn how! Learn how! Learn how! Learn how! Learn how! Every raw material at hand Every raw material at hand Every raw material in your hand
Had the choice but lost my chance Heard a voice and changed my stance All I needed was a clue Had enough of golden rules Now the days are open wounds All I needed was a clue Find a way to turn things back What never happened seems to last Where did things go wrong? Where did things go wrong? Where did things go wrong? Where did things go wrong?
First she says Why mince modes? If you feel like a patient why not dress like one? Then she says Why can't I sleep? Between icy wet white sheets for three days and sink down deeper than dreams Oh, I'd love that I'd be a mineral deposit A ball of mica inside a rock I'd be a mineral deposit A ball of mica inside a rock Then there'd be no whistles, no radios No screams Then there'd be no whistles, no radios No screams First she says Why mince modes? If you feel like a patient why not dress like one? Then she says Why can't I sleep? Between icy wet white sheets for three days and sink down deeper than dreams What could I say to that? What could I say to that? What could I say to that? What could I say to that? What could I say to that? What could I say to that?
Every man thinks he does what he can Then he...?and he's holding the weatherbox Every night...? Then he...?and he's holding the weatherbox Holding the weatherbox Holding the weatherbox Sun is falling down Sky is falling down Seasons falling down Air is falling down Falling... The air is round and the world is flat And everything is clearly impossible Clearly impossible Bombs roll inside the weatherbox Bombs roll inside the weatherbox Bombs roll inside the weatherbox Bombs roll inside the weatherbox Bombs roll inside the weatherbox Bombs roll inside the weatherbox
When you are young They kick you in the head And when you grow up, they're still fucking with your head And when I found out What it was I didn't want I start to run and I start to hunt 'Cause at the bottom of the well There a seed is a pit and it Makes me wanna make the world nervous as shit 'Cause I'm made of gold, brass And I wanna break it like glass, glass, glass So when I was young It didn't make any sense And when I grew up It made just as little sense So when I found out What it was I didn't want I got new armour And I started to hunt 'Cause at the bottom of the well There a seed is a pit and it Makes me wanna make the world nervous as shit 'Cause I'm made of gold, brass And I wanna break it like glass, glass, glass Funworld Funworld
This might be your only chance To prove it on your own Tulsa's not that Tulsa's not that far
Besides if you stay I'd feel a certain guilt Did I hold you Did I hold you back?
Can I count on you If I fall apart? If I fall a If I fall apart
That's how I escaped my certain fate Innocence a novice's mistake That's how I escaped my certain fate Honesty's an actor's worst mistake That's how I escaped my certain fate
I said my mother's dead Well I don't care about it I said my father's dead Well I don't care about it It happens anyway It happens anyway On the edge of Burma We're on the edge of Burma I said my baby twists She twists the night away I swear she twists so good And then she turned to me And then she turned to me And then I heard her say "Well, that's the way I like it that's the way I like it I like it too much"