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Ministry - Permawar

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Album: From Beer To Eternity
Released: 2013

Permawar Lyrics

You live to fight another day, and that day will come
We're fighting never-ending wars, for profit and fun
We're tired, we're tired, we're tired of Permawar

You live to die another day, we send you off with a gun
We're making money hand over fist, that's why we're never done
We're tired, of keeping scores
We're tired, of what's in store
We're tired, we don't want anymore
We're tired of PermaWar

I'm tired of building other nations

Ceasefire, it's our only salvation

You live and die for the American Way, well that way is done
The bottom line remains the same, we're making cash by the ton

We're tired, of keeping scores
We're tired, of what's in store
We're tired, we don't want anymore
We're tired of PermaWar

We're tired, of keeping scores
We're tired, of what's in store
We're tired, we don't want anymore

We're tired of PermaWar
We're tired of PermaWar
We're tired of PermaWar
We're tired of PermaWar
We're tired of PermaWar

Writer/s: AL JOURGENSEN, MICHAEL R SCACCIA, SINHUE QUIRIN
Publisher: Peermusic Publishing, SCHUBERT MUSIC PUBLISHING INC.
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Permawar

This was released as one of the intro tracks to Ministry's From Beer To Eternity album. The record was recorded at frontman Al Jourgensen 's 13th Planet compound in El Paso, Texas with guitarists Mike Scaccia and Sin Quirin, drummer Aaron Rossi and bassist Tony Campos. Three days after rough tracks for the songs were completed, Scaccia died from a heart attack he suffered onstage while playing a live show with his band Rigor Mattis.

The remaining Ministry members were absolutely devastated and Jourgensen announced in March 2013 that From Beer To Eternity would be the band's last ever album, as he didn't want to carry on without Scaccia. "Mikey was my best friend in the world and there's no Ministry without him", he told Noisey . "But I know the music we recorded together during the last weeks of his life had to be released to honor him. So after his funeral, I locked myself in my studio and turned the songs we had recorded into the best and last Ministry record anyone will ever hear. I can't do it without Mikey and I don't want to. So yes, this will be Ministry's last album."

Jourgensen recalled the recording of the album to Loudwire : "Me and Mikey, we would just jam around between country songs and we kept coming up with these riffs and Mikey kept going, 'Man we've got to put this out,'" remembered the frontman. "I kept telling him Ministry is done, but he's like, 'No, seriously dude. These riffs are cool; we have to put this out.' I kind of went into it begrudgingly and now I'm really quite happy with the result. I think this album came out like a great middle finger from me and Mikey as the final blow. So, I'm pretty happy with it."

The song's music video was shot in July 2013 at Jourgensen's Texan compound and directed by filmmaker/animator Zach Passero whose credits include Ministry's "Lieslieslies," "GhoulDiggers" and "99 Percenters," as well as the feature film Wicked Lake. The clip combines provocative news images taken from World War Two, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, with a bad acid trip. Jourgensen portrays three different personalities, representing three different points of view on America's persistence of war: the corrupt political leader, the predatory business man, and the passive observer.

Ministry - What About Us

Ministry - What About Us Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Greatest Fits
Released: 2001

What About Us Lyrics

What About Us Song Chart

Ministry wrote this for the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie A.I., where the band performed it in the "Flesh Fair" scene. Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen came up with the lyrics to go along with the theme of the movie, which is the conflict between robots and humans; the humans mantra is "What About Us?", and they proceed to rip apart the robots at the Flesh Fair.

Ministry was the first real band Spielberg used in one of his movies, and for a while, it looked like the industrial rockers and the legendary director were not going to get along. In our 2012 interview with Al Jourgensen, he explained: "We were on set for three days; I saw Spielberg while we were onstage and we were doing rehearsals, but we didn't meet, so they set up a meeting with Spielberg, his handler, and the whole band. And it was kind of like meeting the queen. You couldn't talk to him, you couldn't look him in the face unless he talked to you. I was at the end of the line of the fans, and he got down to me, and I just blew off all the protocol, and I told him, 'Hey, Steve, baby, what's the deal? I thought 'A.I.' stood for Anal Intruder and this was supposed to be a porno film.' I told him that. 'This man's gotta walk. We're quitting today.' I was kidding. Just break the ice. But his handler freaked out and Spielberg took it personally and I had to chase him down in all my costuming and all this crap that I was wearing and just go, 'Look, I was just kidding! Just relax!' They were so uptight about it.

After that, every day on the set, Spielberg would come up and name a new moniker for A.I. Like, I think his first one was 'Animal Indecency.' So every day he'd come up and he'd name a new porn title. And then he finally started wearing my cowboy hat and started jamming with us on stage. So I love Steven, man, he's great. But we had kind of an auspicious start."

Stanley Kubrick was the original director for A.I., but when he died, Spielberg took it over. It was Kubrick who asked Ministry to write the song and perform in the film. "That was all initiated by Stanley Kubrick who called me up out of the blue and said he was a big fan and he had this screenplay that he sent me and he wanted us to be the band and to write the music for it," said Jourgensen. "I hung up on him. I thought it was a crank call. His secretary was calling and I was like, 'Yeah, right.' Click. And then he called back personally and then talked to me, and I was just freaked out. I mean, who wouldn't be freaked out? Here's this eccentric American God living in the countryside of England, and he's calling me up in Austin, Texas, and saying he wants me to do the music for his film and he wants me to be in his film and he's famous and all that. I didn't even believe it."

The robotic teddy bear plays a big role in Flesh Fair scene were Ministry performed this song in A.I., but it wasn't so cute when it was holding up production. Said Jourgensen: "I wound up getting stuck with this f--king electronic teddy bear that was on the set the whole time that was breaking down. So it took us like three weeks to film our part because the bear broke down every f--king day. (Laughing) We'd be sitting there on stage and you hear walkie talkies going on all over the place going, 'The bear is down! The bear is down!' So then we'd hit the commissary and just drink beers and get drunk and wait for the bear to get back up. And then you'd hear walkie talkies going, 'The bear is up! The bear is up! Everyone back on set!' So we'd have to run back on set in our costumes. And this f--king bear... seriously, I would like to buy it at auction just so I could put it in my firepot and burn it once and for all. This thing was a nightmare that bear. I hated that bear."

This doesn't appear on the A.I. soundtrack, where it would have clashed with the John Williams and David Foster pieces from the score.