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