Lyrics:

injured plea crushed destiny deep down trauma hounds run to corrode integrity whatever matters and it would they fail to see they make believe reality helpless deaths ignored to be judged as juvenile head caves in growing pains no time remains for fantasy tyrrany exists shrink beneath the ingrown thorns forced to accept pledge allegiance to a flag tested to forget you must resist they want you dead feels emptyness eternity keeps swallowing digested benefactors whose silence deafens anything all of whom decease and miss to pierce a point objects and lessons to realize it's not the way what's the point of giving up leaving won't change anything political resentment to push away all growth withing puzzles me offers soul to nothing the message screams it's purity that those with no rights display the right to have no life do have respect they must accept a world commiting suicide

Official lyrics as printed in Cleanse, Fold, and Manipulate

Appeared On:

• Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate in original version as "deep down Trauma Hounds" (4:41)
  • Singles Collect in original version as "Deep Down Trauma Hounds" (4:43)
• Addiction single/EP in remixed form as "deep down Trauma Hounds (remix)" (7:32)
  • Mind:TPI in 'remix' erroneously listed as just "deep down Trauma Hounds" (7:32)
  • 12" Anthology in 'remix' with a slight edit compiled as "deep down Trauma Hounds (remix)" (7:27)
• Ain't It Dead Yet? in live version as "deep down Trauma Hounds"
• Doomsday in live version from Aug. 20, 2000 as "deep down Trauma Hounds" (4:46)

Total Versions: 4

Live Performances:
Cleanse, Fold, and Manipulate tour
Head Trauma tour
VIVIsectVI tour
Doomsday 2000

Video:
No official video was made for the album track, however the live version from the Ain't it Dead Yet? video appears on the 1984-1992 Video Collection

Notes:

• Oddly, the 12" Anthology cuts off the sample which appears as the last few seconds of the remixed version.

• This track first appeared on the Cleanse, Fold and Manipulate album in 1987. The remix which appears on the Mind:TPI CD was added in 1988, taken from the Addiction single. Since the remix appears there without its parenthetical qualifier it has led some to incorrectly believe that deep down Trauma Hounds first appeared on Mind:TPI in 1986.

This page last updated on Thursday, February 07, 2002
by Corey Goldberg