Credo

I watch the TV every night
 I stay awake by satellite
 I hope and pray the nightmares
 Stay away today
 An oily shroud on a coral reef
 A black cloud's hanging over me
 When I hit on the remote
 The programs stay the same
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 An assegai slick with sweat and blood
 A shotgun barks at a rabid dog
 A shallow grave hugs a highway
 Beneath a bleaching sun
 When cancer sucks a young girl's breast
 When a company chains a young man's soul
 When the coal dust stole
 My granddad's breath away, one day
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin'
 It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' to me
 A tattered tramp tacks a windy wind
 To close a crowded circle a brazier's light
 A man becomes a mountain
 In the falling snow
 A mother screams and a baby cries
 The memory gone before the blood has dried
 A needle pricks the conscience
 To help it fade away
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin'
 It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin' to me
 It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin'
 It don't mean nothin', tell me, it don't mean nothin' to me
 The more you scream, the less you hear
 Or that's how it used to be
 But I just can't tell the difference
 Anymore these days
 The open lips of an altar boy
 A planet spins in a silent void
 The options are ever fewer
 On the ground these days
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 Credo, credo, credo, credo
 It don't mean nothin', it don't mean nothin'
 It don't mean nothin', it don't, it don't
 It don't mean nothin' to me, to me
 It don't mean nothin' to me
 Credo, credo, credo
 I watch the TV every night
 I stay awake by satellite
 I hope and pray the nightmares
 Stay away today
 An oily shroud on a coral reef
 A black cloud's hanging over me
 When I hit on the remote
 The programs stay the same
 A mother screams and a baby cries
 The memory gone before the blood has dried
 A needle pricks the conscience
 To help it fade away
 Don't you fade away
 Fade away, fade away, fade away
 Don't you fade away, don't you fade away
 Fade away, fade away, fade away