Lyrics:

Oil remove shred and tear radiation vapor
It’s the fear so unclear man in motion going nowhere
In our homes stuck in the face spread the word to the populace
Yellow journal yellow journal set the pace feel the rage
Manifestations of a sort so insidious off the point
Simple solution never confusion sport a gun kill a cop
Crazy world of weary thought so receive me had enough
Lock me up
Lock me up

Rot and assimilate
So hot to annihilate

tear your face
hit with mace

Deviation tonic mess prolonged existence innocence
Is he who speaks isn’t weak
Wheelchair virtue so to speak
Bubonic plague the truth of AIDS
Immunity avoid decay
In the trench of pestilence the bible screams announce your faith
Mutterings of death do bring suffocate a new born thing
Degradation of an age venereal its all sensation
Protect design the moral plan
Inflatable as propaganda
Completely black with no steps back

go nowhere
tell yourself
search your soul

bloodshot

Agony profusely stains the inner thinking of the brain
Accusations clanking chains experiments with groans of pain
All prefer no one blames the terror in an animal screams
In cages our future the answer’s insane

show no faith
each adds assimilate
each one assimilates

reach for an air way
death

Official lyrics from SP Technical Manual contributed by Darkman, transcribed by Corey, except the asides in italics transcribed by Corey. The word "inflatable" is as it is apparently spelled in the Technical Manual, though it sounds like "infallible."

Appeared On:

• Back and Forth series 2 in demo form as "Assimilate (original inst. demo)" (3:04)
• Bites in original version as "Assimilate" (6:56)
  • Singles Collect in original version as "Assimilate" (6:57)
• Chainsaw single/EP in remix as "Assimilate (Remix R:23)" (6:32)
  • 12" Anthology the remix from Chainsaw compiled as "Assimilate (r23 remix)" (6:32)
• Ain't It Dead Yet? in live version as "Assimilate"
• Remix Dys Temper in remix as "Assimilate - Chris Vrenna remix (Tweaker mix)" (6:22)

Total Versions: 5

Video:
No true official video, but what appears to be a promotional video made by Nettwerk exists, utilizing early live footage synched very poorly to the song.

Live Performances:
Bites tour
Mind: TPI tour
Cleanse Fold and Manipulate tour
Head Trauma tour
VIVIsectVI tour
As Additional Encore at Toronto show on Last Rights tour  

Samples:

"Is it safe?"
from The Marathon Man

"We've got the taste." [appears in R:23 version only]
from Tina Turner Diet Coke commercial

This page last updated on Wednesday, May 30, 2007
by Corey Goldberg