Testament (1983) is a drama film directed by Lynne Littman and starring Jane Alexander.
The film tells the story of how one small suburban town near the San Francisco Bay Area slowly falls apart after a nuclear war destroys outside civilization.
Originally produced for the PBS series American Playhouse, it was given a theatrical release instead (although PBS did subsequently air it a year later).
The cast includes William Devane, Leon Ames, Lukas Haas, Roxana Zal and, in small roles shortly before a rise in their stardom, Kevin Costner and Rebecca De Mornay.
Based on The Last Testament by Carol Amen, the film script was by John Sacret Young, who would later create the television series China Beach. Alexander was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance.
The Wetherly family--husband Tom (William Devane), wife Carol (Jane Alexander), and children Brad (Ross Harris), Mary Liz (Roxana Zal), and Scottie (Lukas Haas)--live in the fictional suburb of Hamlin, California, within a 90-minute drive of San Francisco, where Tom works. On a routine afternoon, Carol (a stay-at-home mom and volunteer for school functions such as directing the school play) listens to an answering-machine message from Tom saying he's on his way home for dinner. Scottie watches Sesame Street on TV as a sibling adjusts the TV antenna on the roof, when the show is suddenly replaced by white noise; suddenly, a news anchor appears onscreen:
Testament / Peterson
In regards to the nature used with pacts of magic
Spirits from the vastly deep
Respond the calls from their broken silence.
Make sure you reach does not exceed your grasp
All that is to be done before you act
In a pact of invoking spirits from the past
Have you lost your mind?
The dark souls of time
Ending life!
Ending life!
They see you calling out their names and getting ready
Chant in darkness shrouding near
Through your virtued youth they'll strike a deal
What's to obtain if no pain no gain
But to sell your soul you must be insane
Wrote your name in blood and then they came
You're as good as dead
The lost souls of time
Envy life!
Envy life!
Life!!!
Have you lost your mind?
The dark souls of time
Ending life!
You're as good as dead
The lost souls of time
Envy life!
Come on down to the house of pain
You hear them calling
Shouting out their names in vain. Envy life!
In regards to the nature used with pacts of magic
Spirits from the vastly deep
Respond the calls from their broken silence.
Make sure you reach does not exceed your grasp
All that is to be done before you act
In a pact of invoking spirits from the past
You're as good as dead
The lost souls of time
Envy life!
Envy life!
Envy life!
Troubled dreams
Of a wandering nomad
Damned to be all by myself I travelled far
Following bright stars
Through the endless desert sands
Starring off into the sky
Down on Myself
Loneliness brings my demise
Oh,what a nightmare
Here we go
Leave me be
Why must I please them
When I can't even please myself
Deep in thoughts
But I still feel so
Lost in endless despair
Starring off into the sky
Down on myself
Loneliness brings my demise
Oh,what a nightmare
Here we go
As you soon realize
The nights so black I feel blind
Should I keep wandering on
On and on and on
There's just one thing you should know
No I can't take it no more
Two wrongs don't make it right
Right or wrong I can't take it
And in the end you will find
Find me a peace of mind
Forever lost
Severing my thoughts
From the dream I must seek
Time to end
This aggravation
The nomad spirit lives in me
[Instrumental]
[Music: Peterson, Christian]
[Solos: Greg, Eric, James]
TESTAMENT " Trial by Fire " off of THE NEW ORDER
Accuse you of a crime
Sentenced to endless time
The price you have to pay
Won't get away!
Sworn in by the stand
Your rights are gone
The system's banned
They think you are a liar
A trial by FIRE!
HEY!
This is what the people say
A new way
A trial by fire!
Locked in an empty cell
Your life becomes a living hell
The river of fire flows
Time only knows!
Trapped by flames of fury
Ordered onto by the jury
Death is their desire
Thrown in the fire!
Hey!
This is what the people say
A new way
A trial by fire
Quiver by the fiery light
Cringing as your soul ignites
The book of law's been thrown away
starting today!
The system before the war
Is gone for now and ever more
There is no sentence higher
A TRIAL BY FIRE!
Hey!
This is what the people say
A new way
A trial by fire!
Cast away by darkness
It's time to let you know
Voices of many soldiers
Arise ten thousand thrones
They're just turned away, they're told that they're OK
The spread of chemical warfare
Destroyed the human race
Life is darkening, sickening
Endless conscious slumber ten thousand thrones
Paralyzed, depression
Schizophrenic minds
New born retardation
A war they're born to fight
Life is darkening, sickening
Endless conscious slumber ten thousand thrones
Cancerous tumor invading the mind
Leaving behind
Ashes are burning that fall from the sky
Politically devine
Honor the code and defending the line
Pretentious lies
The fighting of war is shattering lives
The death of mankind
Why have we forgotten
A war the holocaust
What is the solution
Back in time the punishment
Was burn all you witches burn
Some mothers burned, burned alive
Hear the children cry...
Children Crying... mothers dying...
Some would die the innocent
Some would die a whore
Some so scared the children fled
Confused by this world
Why... they don't want to
Burn... alive...
Caught in the burning times
When all the witches died
Still hear the children crying
The burning times...
Some say when you float a witch
You set free their soul
I've always said... burn the bitch
My spoken words of old
Why... they don't want to
Burn... alive
Caught in the burning times
When all the witches died
Still hear the children crying
The burning times...
Back in time the punishment
Was burn all you witches burn
Some paid the price of their crimes
Caught in the burning times
Why... they don't want to
Burn... alive...
Caught in the burning times
So many people died
Still hear the children crying
The burning times...
Caught in the burning times
Caught in the burning times
Testament / Skolnick,Billy
I'm not one to say
Where my feelings are going when they wither away
I pray to see another day
My heart's feeling like a needle lost in the hay
Restrained to meet again
My friend do you think that we ever will
I know we are free...
The games are played with your life on the line
Some lose, you win if you keep on trying
I don't mind doing the time, I'm happier being alive
Now I know the means to my opression were all lies
The only truth is your own most sacred lesson I've ever learned
I know we are free...
Yeah,
Don't go,
Don't look back,
Just realize
I've been robbed, I've been fooled
I intent now to make my own rules
Dagger's edge cut the life, I've been down that road too many times
What's to fear, fear no more,
Show my conscience what fear's for
Now I know this is so real
What's done is done so do as you will!
I'm keeping alive! Go on, no don't look back
Just realise where you've gone.
Where are you going to, no life's not done wit you
Hear the screams, screams of fright
Shrieks of terror through the night
Souls of old band to hold
The meeting for the haunting night
Headless ghosts fill the halls
Shadow plays of grief and pain
Phantom speaks his final note
Tenants of the castle slain
Black cats will appear
As the witching hour nears
Lost souls will all be told
For a haunting we will go
See their dreams come to life
Under pressure holding tight
Feel the cold grabbing hold
To feed you on the haunting night
Evil witch, black as pitch
Starts a fire with a flinch
Burning fire rising higher
Making music like a choir
Children of the night
They're howling at black skies
The ruthless calls within
For the haunting now begins
Stay away from the shining light
Can't seem to find the answers there
Bring back the terror in the night
That we all share tonight
Hear the screams, screams of fright
Shrieks of terror through the night
Souls of old band to hold
The meeting for the haunting night
Headless ghosts fill the halls
Shadow plays of grief and pain
Phantom speaks his final note
Tenants of the castle slain
Black cats will appear
As the witching hour nears
Lost souls will all be told
For a haunting we will go
[Music: Skolnick, Peterson]
[Instrumental]
Burial of a human being
A man before a boy
Born to fight in another man's world
Not a world where there's a war
Born relihiously
Truth is what they see
Death won't come form peace
Who fuels this war?
Solo: Eric
Sacred ground of life
Burnt remains of the dead
Bodies lay to rest
Spirits of the earth
Rancid man, burned alive
Too blind to see what's wrong from right
Locked inside this cage
So many times blood has poured
Walk with shadows
Hear the shades of war... forever more
Brought into this world of bitter pain
Are we safe... or just insane
Solo: James
Rancid man, burned alive
Too blind to see what's wrong from right
Darkness veils their way
So many times blood has poured
Walk with shadows
Testament / Billy, Peterson, Skolnick
The day's vanished in the night, soon the children pray
Pray themselves alone, the hate build from their pride
You can't take away, can't take what they own!
The eyes watching from the sky, guides them through the haze
Calling far away, the rain is black as black, black as night
Oh let them pray!
False sense of pride, satisfies
There's no reason for suicide
Use your mind, and hope to find
Find the meaning of existence...
The cry's answers wonder why, why it's time to die
Time to die alone, cause I'm wasting too much time
Wandering down the line reason why I go my own!
False sense of pride, satisfies
There's no reason for suicide
Use your mind, and hope to find
I'm gonna take you
To a place far from here
No one will see us
Watch the pain as it disappears
No time for anger
No time for despair
Won't you come with me
There's room for us there
This innocent beauty
My words can't describe
This rebirth to purity
Brings a sullen tear right to your eyes
No time for anger
No time for despair
Please let me take you
'Cause I'm already there
I'm so alone
My head's my home
I'll return to serenity
Rhyme without reason
Is why children cry
They see through the system
That's breeding them just so they die
So please let me take you
And I'll show you the truth
Inside my reality
We shared in my youth
I'm so alone
My head's my home
And I feel
So alone
You know
At last
I return to serenity
Now that I've taken you
To a place far from here
I really must go back
Close your eyes and we'll disappear
Won't you come with me
Salvation we'll share
Inside of my head now
There's room for us there
Fuel the fire for war
It's man against mankind
Bruises that they bear
Been beaten down with time
Innocent people suffer the loss
Your broken hope so close to the cross
Sometimes, you just don't know
How low... how low you can go...
So low it's sickening
Low... Low... show some mercy...
Hey you piece of shit
Just leave the kids alone
Why can't you bear
The things that we endure
Innocent people suffer the loss
Lost hope with faith to the cross
Sometimes, you just don't know
How low... how low you can go...
Show some sympathy
Low... Low... show some mercy...
Solo: James
I don't like you for your warped demented ways
I hope the lock you down, so you never get away
Low... Low... show some sympathy
I've been a prisoner
Trapped in by fear
Ordered for the rest of my life
Condemned in a jail cell
Ain't seen life in years
Escape is the only way out
Restart my life or self destruction
To climb this wall of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me
My sanity is all but gone
My patience is growing very weak
I need to get a hold of myself
I stare at the wall
For the right time has come
Escape must occur on this night
Restart my life or self destruction
To climb this wall of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me
Stand in my way
And I'll run you straight through
There's no one to stop me now
For I'm on the loose
And I'm ready to start
Torture and Hell on this town
Over The Wall !
The search will not stop
And the hounds will not rest
Till I am back in my cell
For if I am caught
I will try it again
Over the wall I will go ...
I will go !
Go !
Restart my life or self destruction
To climb this wall of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me
Chant incantate
See his legions march in trace
Destroy desecrate
Church of lies
The priest await to be
Right in this world
By fate the host of hate
Arose from a whirl
Sealed the earth from all it's sins
From fire that he spreads
Where's your God to save you know
from the hordes of the undead
Hear the locust roar...
The legions of the dead
Envoked in this world
The legions of the dead
Envoked all hell on earth
Choked this world dead
Paralyzed by what they believe
to be... unholy, all evil
Immortal, unholy, infernal...
Unholy, all evil
Immortal, unholy unfernal one...
The legions of the dead...
Hold your breath afraid
Grasp the rope in fear
Grip just slips away
You yell but no one hears...
You don't know if you will drown
Your friends showed you the way
They left you to run wild
They just turned away
You're angered with a smile
You don't know if you will drown
You don't know if you'll be found or not
Drowning in the darkness
Lying... ending... sorrow
Body's feeling lifeless
Lying... ending... sorrow
The minds at peace and conscious
Life's... ending... sorrow
Where are your friends now
Have they let you down
They can't bring you back
They just let you drowned
Slashing through the fight
Before him dressed in the armor of the dead
Crossed fists
Can't deny
The swift sword
Getting closer to their lair
Follow me and I'll give you a king
Singing over talking
Fight with me and kill for your king
Hatred was a man out to seek
Vengeance for the death of his father
For he is the one bears the mark
Of the great warrior king and
No one can stop him
Waiting
For tonight
The ax swings
Into battle on the wall
Striking
Blows from life
For my king
Deathly victim of the blade
Stabbing and slashing
When night falls
They all must die...
Beating and bashing
With blood lust
From hatred's rise
The high priest
Blessed the blood shed
Of defeat
The smell of death roams
Through the air
Rising
Flames of war
Shine through the night
Until the dawn the troopers storm
Stabbing and slashing
The nights gone
No one alive...
Beating and bashing
With blood lust
Music: Peterson, Murphy
Lyrics: Billy, James
I am alive
I feel dirt in my eyes
There's no escape when redemption is lost
I'm not a saint
There's no use to looking
No sins to deny
Just my will to go on
Armas of darkness
Embrace me in madness
In my life it's mandatory
Hard to resist you
I still can't forgive you
For sins that I cannot wash away
Hail Mary full of grace
Throw some light upon this race
Intertwining final breath
Now... in the hour of death
Solo: James
Bound by the lies
Of constant denial
Pay for my sins that I bear for a child
I'm not a saint
There's no use denying
Falling from grace
Is my reason to go on
Hail Mary full of grace
Put me down, and kick me in my face
Intertwining final breath
Eyes of wrath
The beast is on your back
Razorblade slice your neck
Slowly tear you down
Takes another life
To feed his bloody lust
Random crime spree attack
There's no random at all
Dead city nights
Another daughter's done
Another victim of circumstance
Took the wrong way home
Can you hear the screams
The music of the dead
A ritual of broken flesh
Annoints the silver blade
No one lives forever
There is no forever
And I'll tell you why
Rage, Rage soothes the pain
Pain, Pain soothes the rage
Lash out in anger
that never will chance
I can never escape
Rage, Rage Soothes the pain
Pain, Pain Soothes the rage
I'm so distorted, that I'm fading away
Human destruction has now sealed our fate
The truth is war
There's suffering
I am a stronger man
Man who I am... I
I've seen the world suffer human distinction
I've seen through eyes of rage
It's time to stand and rise
And face the war
And suffering
The world we scorn is our
World uncaptured...
Dark machines that shade the light
Won't let you understand
I side with innocence
and hail for resistance
Resistance... resistance... resistance
Dark disease that takes the life
Of all our fellow man
No time for ignorance
Salvation comes again...
I... I've watched the earth, slowly wither away
Human destruction has now sealed our fate
The truth is war
And suffering
I am a stronger man
Man who I am, I am... man
Distorted lives
Cast to the fire
Banned by the light
Worship and listen to me
Condemned in his mind
In his evil place
Your fate is all that you'll see
I am the one
To show you the path
Salvation is in the fields
Listen up children and follow me
Or I'll let you pay the price
Of Malachi!
Disciples of the watch
OBEY!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
Holding the mass
The demon is cast
To resurrect your soul
Calling to him
Is like an evil sin
A prophet is what they're told
Taking the land under command
Killing friend or fore
Feel the might of his evil wrath
Desecrate your soul!
Disciples of the watch
OBEY!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
Cast to the fire
Banned by the light
Worship and listen to me
Condemned in his mind
In his evil place
Your fate is all that you'll see
For I am the one
To show you the path
Salvation is in the fields
Listen up children and follow me
Or I'll let you pay the price
Of Malachi!
Disciples of the watch
OBEY!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
[Testament]
[Instrumental]
Hey everybody
Join together unified
Hey are you ready
for us all to fight for pride
It's our last chance to defend
our war cries to the bitter end
Pray up to the heavens
Our creator justifies...
A war dance of indians
It's my own allegiance to the fight
Me... white... breed...
Everybody simbolize
Join together unified
Hey everybody
come together, raise the knife
same old promise
that we've heard a thousand times
It's our last chance to defend
war cries to the bitter end
as man shows his ignorance
it's my own allegiance to the fight
Fight... me... white... breed...
Everybody simbolize
Join together unified
Fight... me... white... breed...
Everybody stand and rise
You get me loose
I want ya, that's all I do
You leave me loose
I want ya, that's all I do
Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down
You make me groove
I want ya, that's all I do
You let me groove
I want ya, that's all I do
Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down
Who are you?
Your magic is strange and new
Who are you?
I want ya, that's all I do
Make love to me right now
Love me till I'm down
Make love to me right now
Into the Abyss I'll fall- the eye of Horus
Into the eyes of the night- watching me go
Green is the cat's eye that glows- in this Temple
Enter the risen Osiris-risen again.
Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a God,
Why can't I live on?
When the Life Giver dies,
All around is laid waste.
And in my last hour,
I'm a slave to the Power of Death.
When I was living this lie-Fear was my game
People would worship and fall-
Drop to their knees.
So bring me the blood and red wine
For the one to succeed me,
for he is a man and a God-
And He will die too.
Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a God,
Why can't I live on?
When the Life Giver dies,
All around is laid to waste.
And in my last hour,
I'm a slave to the Power of Death.
Now I am cold but a ghost lives in my veins,
Silent the terror that reigned-
Marbled in stone.
A shell of a man God preserved-
For a thousand ages,
But open the gates of my Hell-
I will strike from my grave.
Tell me why I had to be a Powerslave
I don't wanna die, I'm a God,
Why can't I live on?
When the Life Giver dies,
All around is laid waste.
And in my last hour,
I'm a slave to the Power of Death,
Slave to the Power of Death...
Checkmate honey
Beat you at your own damn game
No dice honey
I'm livin' on the astral plane
Feet's on the ground
Your head's going down the drain
Heads I win, tails you lose
To the never mind
That's where I Draw The Line
An indian summer
Carrie was all over the floor
She was a wet net winner
And rarely ever left the store
She'd sing and dance all night
And wrong all the right out of me
Pass me the vile and cross your fingers
It don't take time
Nowhere to Draw The Line
Hi we were singin' on your cowboy song
You told Carrie
And promised her you wouldn't be long
Heads I win, tails you lose
Lord it's such a crime
No dice honey
You're salt, you're the queen of the brine
Checkmate honey
You're the only one who's got to choose
Where to Draw The Line
Checkmate, don't be late
Take another blow
That's right
It's possible to wreck it
Cuz' you kill yourself
When you rock to the top
Your the boss of yourself
So suffer
Now Draw The Line
ooo-Yeah
Dark night, there is no light
In the realm of the black magic man
Soul's flight into the cold blight
Of the destroyer's magic land
Poor man, whose spirits are stronger
They're the ones who will reign
You're struggles are in vain
Blind man, you're suckin' your own blood
Soon black magic's dying
You'd better start crying
Blind man, you're suckin' your own blood
Soon black magic's dying
You'd better start crying
Throw out your evil desire
The dark king's kingdom is
Made out of mire
Throw out your evil desire
The dark king's kingdom is
Made out of mire
Keep on for the kingdom of light
Take me to the room where the red's all red
Take me out of my head's what I said yeah
Hey take me to the room where the green's all green
And from what I've seen it's hot it's mean
-Gonna use my stack
-It's gotta be Mack
-Gonna get me on the track
-Got a dragon on my back
Take me to the room where the beat's all round
Gonna eat that sound - (yeah yeah yeah!)
Take me to the room where the black's all white
And the white's all black take me back to the shack
-She don't take no prisoners
-Gonna give me the business
-Got a dragon on my back
-It's a dragon attack
Get down - Nice and slow
Hey hey - All right
She's low down
-She don't take no prisoners
Go down
-Gonna give me the business
No time
-Yeah chained to the rack!
Show time
-Got a dragon on my back
Show down
-Go find another customer
Slow down
Life, as we know
Is full of gloom
Oppress the masses
We'll lead to our doom
We want the right
To live or die
Can't take away
What we feel inside
Like empty shadows
Afflict our brains
Envision dreams
Just to ease the pain
There's more to life
Than to satisfy
I ask myself
For the reason why
If it were my way
I'd deliver us from this hell
If it were my way
If ever there comes a day
Renovations blown away
Is there no end
To this endless war
The fear of man
Is now what's in store
We look at life as a memory
Long live the dreams
That they took from me
If it were my way
I'd deliver us from this hell
See the sun as the day is done
life is of the broken ones
some will stray as time will come
All their lives, they live it well
red man proud and giving hell
some stand and shining tall
Can you hear them call...
See the sun as it's setting still
tears fall from a warrior
damn those who I feel
Set a trail to the promised land
mother and child holding hand in hand
through the snow or through the sands
All across the land...
Full moon's rising from the sky, a warrior's riding
ride with the wind
so far away, the spirits will guide you
no more sorrow
don't look back, your freedom will follow
flying so free
can't you see... on the trail of tears
Full moon's rising from the sky, a warrior's riding
ride with the wind
so far away, the spirits will guide you
no more sorrow
don't look back, your freedom will follow
flying so free
I'm so distorted, that I'm fading away
Human destruction has now sealed our fate
The truth is war
There's suffering
I am a stronger man
Man who I am... I
I've seen the world suffer human distinction
I've seen through eyes of rage
It's time to stand and rise
And face the war
And suffering
The world we scorn is our
World uncaptured...
Dark machines that shade the light
Won't let you understand
I side with innocence
and hail for resistance
Resistance... resistance... resistance
Dark disease that takes the life
Of all our fellow man
No time for ignorance
Salvation comes again...
I... I've watched the earth, slowly wither away
Human destruction has now sealed our fate
The truth is war
And suffering
I am a stronger man
Man who I am, I am... man
Distorted lives
This planet bleeds, you sinners sigh
Grace - in a perfect world
On shines the light
Praise - an angelic song
but there's another side you'll see
Now hide
salvation easily denied
Reigns - Down with misery
Life's not always what it seems
False hope
written in the testament of old
Take heed
stop believing everyword you read
Truth inconsistencies
Distorts the lie
False imprisonment
Forever lost inside your mind
Fates door
Just be careful what you wish for
Death's door
Just be careful what you wish for
Peace of mind I can't find
Don't be blind take the ride
Hey... we live in a fucked up world
Walking on through the demise
We step into the unknown
Your better save yourself...
Hey... we live in a fucked up world
Hiding behind the disguise
Never let your feelings show
Why can't you be yourself...
We live in a fucked up world
Walking on through the demise
We step into the unknown
Your better save yourself...
Marching our way through the crypts of the dead
Taking his land by command
Killing our victims and taking no slaves
Hitler's final third reich
Engines are roaring the warheads ablast
The destroyer claims their fate
Hells legions armies
They march to defy
Lucifer takes his wait
Obeying this task by our leaders will
Death camps have taken their toll
The cold winds of winter are present forever
Destroyers claim their fate
Fighting our way through the mist of the night
Taking the life from young souls
Marching our armies prepared to fight
The cities all laid destroyed
Machineguns are firing the tanks are ablast
Bombing our way through hell
Generals smiling destruction strikes
Our armies have done well
Obeying this task by our leaders will
Death camps have taken their toll
The cold winds of winter are present forever
Destoyers claim their fate
Though the dead have trapped us in
We'll break the pact a deadly whim
Faisoned hammers wielded straight
Cursing us back to hell's gates
Black magic force thats taken it's course
The world lives in fear
The death calls are near
Awaiting this task battle at last
The worlds left to defy
Now's the time for you to die
Marching our way through the crypts of the dead
Taking his land by command
Killing our victims and taking no slaves
Hitler's final third reich
Engines are roaring the warheads ablast
The destroyer claims their fate
Hells legions armies
They march to defy
Lucifer takes his wait
Obeying this task by our leaders will
Death camps have taken their toll
The cold winds of winter are present forever
Destoyers claim their fate
Music: Peterson, Christian
Lyrics: Billy, James
Paralyzed
And never coming back
Even when your eyes are open
Everything turns to black
Soon forgotten senses
Incubates the soul
Hiding from the light fantastic
Waiting for the show
Contemplation
Reality starts to fade
Creeping stare behind dead eyes
As the minutes burn the day
Inactive wandering
Still can't get a grip
Can God hear your cry
Before you start to slip
Chasing fear
Human mind unglued
Unaware
That fear is chasing you
Endless waiting
For nothing to appear
Even when your eyes are shut
The visions are so clear
Harmonious dissidence
Obscure reckoning
Did you hear that final note
Of silent suffering
Chasing fear
Human mind unglued
Disappear
The sickness inside of you
Chasing fear
Nothing you can do
Unaware
That fear is chasing you
Solos: Eric, James
Loss of function
Withering of the will
Condemned to a state of nothing
Moving in for the kill
Brain cells slowly boil
With memories intertwined
Listening to that empty space
Atrophy of the mind
Chasing fear
Human mind unglued
Disappear
The sickness inside of you
Chasing fear
Nothing you can do
Unaware
Put your life on the line
To hesitate is a waste of time
No giving in to repent
Unto the system of the government
It's called the People's Republic here
The propaganda so sincere
Oh, what a joke and a blatant lie
From criminals ranking high
Born a political prisoner
Raised outside of the law
I'm gonna keep on fighting
Until I die for the cause
Put an end to hypocrisy
Lead the way to democracy
No longer will be play the fool
To brutalized military rule
They started forty years ago
We never could say yes or no
Million souls make our voice
We want the right to make a choice
Born a political prisoner
Raised outside of the law
I'm gonna keep on fighting
Until I die for the cause
Freedom, freedom calling
Out from the pain
Freedom, freedom falling
Seven days of may
They tried to show a peaceful path
Then it turned into a bloom bath
In the squarethey plan the game
That's when the thanks of the army came
They called the murders minimal
Described their victims as criminals
Dead souls like you and me
Who only wanted free society
Born a political prisoner
Raised outside of the law
I'm gonna keep on fighting
Until I die for the cause
Freedom, freedom calling
Out from the pain
Freedom, freedom falling
I didn't mean to offend you
But you were way out of line
And I can't help the way I feel
Who sad I feel fine ?
I'll only give you one warning
Then you must realize
The day of judgement is closing in
Your selfish ways bring your demise
He who lies
Evil pays
Who are you ?
Who made you anyway ?
Wrong or right
Who's to say
I wanna know
Who made you God today
Slave to the ways of the system
Soon to be crucified
I've seen into your darkest fears
The ones you cannot hide
I know where you go when
Your fears start showing
You run
You cannot hide
Will they respect you when
You ask of the world
"Forgive me for so many lies" ?
Is there a need to pretend
To be a man, so divine
And even if I offended you
My truth you can't deny
I know where you go when
Your fears start showing
You run
You cannot hide
Will they respect you when
You ask of the world
"Forgive me for so many lies" ?
Caged... and riding the snake
Straight down from the night
True love for the fix
and she never been able
one minute
to kick back the feelings enticed
and you know it's never the same
Venomous poison constricting your life
Life... enough of the taste
Sweet demonic night
Raised up on her legs
Everytime you encounter the demon
Your future forever forever is lost
While riding the snake
who suffers the loss
Is there no shame
Is life so bad without you...
So far away
and I still can't fight you!!!
Climb... straight into the veins
Ran into the cell
Straight up to the snake
and it never will ever be
Hidding from futures
of innocence lost
Will we ever escape
the clinch of the jaws
Drowning in pools filled with lies
Filled inwith pain
Watch how the serpent survives...
Simmering hate!!!
Caged... and riding the snake
Love loss for the fix
bit down on the snake
Fates sending her back
No place to go
She will never change her ways
Spent to many nights
and can not take
raw emotions from others
Drowning in pools filled with lies
Condemned in pain
Watch how the serpent survives...
Domestically violent
With razor blade smiles
Infested with anger
A well hidden crime
Teaching those lessons so cruel
Ah, the torment spreads
War inside my head
Please just set me free
You call this... a family?
Battered, abusive
There's no wrong or right
When you're enslaved in your room
Hiding from demons
In urban daylight
Knowing that they'll be here soon
Confusion and bruises
And scars left for life
When physical evidence fades
Silently screaming
Just to be loved
Their innocence taken away
Ah, the torment spreads
War inside my head
Please just set me free
You call this... a family?
Solos: Eric, James
Virtues are shattered
By parents they trust
When all love they give is misued
The next generation
The damaged will learn
To keep spinning wheels of abuse
Ah, the torment spreads
War inside my head
Please just set me free
You take my hand and sympathize
You felt the flesh, you realized
You took my will, now I'm deprived
Save myself, just save myself
I... can not be taken unto
All that I have can not be taken
She has ways mischievous
Takes your soul in pact
Demonic chants of Manatu
Save your soul, just save your soul
I... can not be taken unto
All that I feel can not be taken
A strong will is my defense
For the future and past
I... feel what I feel
I... seen what I've seen
I... have what I have
What I have is from me
Yeah he feeds on innocence
Dreams the taste of war
Smells the fear that he has dreamt
Wake yourself, just wake yourself
I... can not be taken until
All that I have can not be taken
The tarot cards on the table
They showed the future and past
I... feel what I feel
I... seen what I've seen
I... have what I have
What I have is from me
I... am a prisoner of fate
I'm refusing all hate
I... will cast it away
I... will not be a slave
You take my hand and sympathize
You felt the flesh, you felt the flesh
You took my will, now I'm deprived
Save myself, just save myself
I... can not be taken until
All that I have can not be taken
The tarot cards on the table
They showed the future and past
I... feel what I feel
I... seen what I've seen
I... have what I have
What I have is from me
I... In through out death I shall be
When I see my brother
What I see is like no other
What we had forever lost
Can't deny our friendship
Feeling like it's time to end this
bad relation ripped appart
When we're young
and disaranged
We didn't know it
any other way
Now were grown
He's still the same
People see him suffering
I am not about to run away
Turn my back to him
In his darkest hour
Give him will to fight
Antagonize his thoughts
See him thew his thoughest times
Purify his weakened heart
All the friends
We feel the same
the way it was
back in the day
The more we change
He stays the same
Will we ever see our friend again
I... feel that...
I can't protect myfriend from himself
All I've got
are these lessons learned in life
The lessons I've been taught
They still remain
inside me thoughts
Even as we speak
as troubled as it seems
He'll always be a friend of mind
That's the way it was
and always will be
When we're young
and disaranged
We didn't know it
any other way
Now were grown
He's still the same
People see him suffering
I... feel...
I cannot help my friend
help him self
You... can't hear what I say
Never going away...
still friends down for life...
can you still fight...
All I've got
are these lessons learned in life
The lessons I've been taught
They still remain
inside me thoughts
Even as we speak
as troubled as it seems
He'll always be a friend of mind
That's the way it was
and always will be
Now in the end
it plain to see
what kind of friend
He has been for me
all along he could never see
Who he was
and always be
I... feel...
I cannot help my friend
I like to dominate
I create your fate
Many years gone by
I rule society
You cannot be me
I am the master
Can't you hear me, breathing for you
Do not ignore
Reach out to me, put your knife through me
Watch me bleed for you... yeah... right
Try to retaliate
I release your hate
Why don't you bleed for me
What do you need to prove
I can see through you
You're not the master
Can't you see me, dying for you
Do not ignore
Reach out to me, put your knife through me
Watch me bleed for you... dying... dying...
All I could bleed
Can't you understand
Grab life by the hand
Where's democracy
I gave all I could bleed
Solos: 1 & 3: Eric
Solos: 2 & 4: James
Fuck government
Land is of the free
Don't take away
Your two bit society
Dying for your greed
Now watch them bleed...
====================
I've been a prisoner
Trapped in by fear
Ordered for the rest of my life
Condemned in a jail cell
Ain't seen life in years
Escape is the only way out
Restart my life or self destruction
To climb this wall of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me
My sanity is all but gone
My patience is growing very weak
I need to get a hold of myself
I stare at the wall
For the right time has come
Escape must occur on this night
Restart my life or self destruction
To climb this wall of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
That beckons me
Stand in my way
And I'll run you straight through
There's no one to stop me now
For I'm on the loose
And I'm ready to start
Torture and Hell on this town
Over The Wall !
The search will not stop
And the hounds will not rest
Till I am back in my cell
For if I am caught
I will try it again
Over the wall I will go ...
I will go !
Go !
Restart my life or self destruction
To climb this wall of dark construction
Holding the quest for freedom
=============================
You will pay the price of the Master, and the Master says ...
Prisoners of the venom master
Guilty for what you've been charged
Sit in cells, condemned to face
The deadly snap of their jaws
Terror stricken, you lie in wait
In the final hour
Knowing of your wretched fate
And the Serpent's power
First Strike Is Deadly !
The evil path that you must take
Is filled with the slither of snakes
They're hiding and waiting for the time to lunge
For your flesh and your fate
No one escapes or comes out alive
For the snakes never lose
For if they hit you just one time
You have just faced your doom
First Strike Is Deadly !
Deadly strike, bred to kill
The venoms howling in your veins
Psychotic spell, a gift from Hell
"The New Order" by TESTAMENT
Takers of humanity, elders paranoid
The time is now
Give up this world you once destroyed
Society versus the underground
Their battles fought and lost
the time has come
to rule the world at any cost
For the past it's too late
'Cause the world can't control fate
Shadows cast loud and clear
Tell the world the new order's here
Cities turn to battlefields
a deadly spell is cast
corpses falling one by one
until the last
The preacher speaks of prophecy
so many years before
No one escapes their punishment
the gods of war
For the past it's too late
'Cause the world can't control fate
Shadows cast loud and clear
Tell the world the new order's here
Death is like an empty space
feel no thoughts of fear
the future cries
as mother nature sheds a tear
The world becomes a prisoner
a victim of its crime
The human race is now a race
against time
FOR THE PAST IT'S TOO LATE
'CAUSE THE WORLD CAN'T CONTROL FATE
SHADOWS CAST LOUD AND CLEAR
====================
Our ship sailed on through the violent Bearing Sea
Not knowing of the danger waiting in store for me
We wound up all in mayhem, the vessel tossed and turned
The compass that had led us, we watched it slowly burn
We'll never see our homeland, we know it all right then
That fate was on the second hand of borrowed time again
For that evil pathed our way ...
The men were being thrown, from left and right they fell
The water was as hot as Satan's forge from Hell
The questions that arose, like "Where the hell are we ?"
I had a good idea, we're in the Devils Sea: The Triangle !
The Devil's Triangle !
See what's become of your life left to life
No hope from this land of trust
Hell's winds scream sacrilege, death from above
The great white closes in ...
The corpses afloat, all shattered in rage
No hope for our peace of mind
Satan's vessel comes closer and closer
He holds the Sea's fate in his hand !
Violence, terror, raging waters
Dying has scared us, nowhere to go now
Darkness prevails, no one to save us
Every one man for himself !
The Red Gem of Hades is shining too hot
Satan's power becomes strong
His armies have killed so many before us
A sacrifice must be done
The door of the chosen has opened for us
What sanctuary will we see ?
See Him panic, crying in lust
Screaming He'll get me !
Violence, terror, raging waters
Dying has scared us, nowhere to go now
Darkness prevails, no one to save us
Every one man for himself !
Our ship sailed on through the violent Bearing Sea
Not knowing of the danger waiting in store for me
We wound up all in mayhem, the vessel tossed and turned
The compass that had led us, we watched it slowly burn
We'll never see our homeland, we know it all right then
That fate was on the second hand of borrowed time again
For that evil pathed our way ...
Inspired by the movie "Children Of The Corn"
Cast to the fire
Banned by the light
Worship and listen to me
Condemned in his mind
In his evil place
Your fate is all that you'll see
I am the one
To show you the path
Salvation is in the fields
Listen up children and follow me
Or I'll let you pay the price
Of Malachi!
Disciples of the watch
Obey!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
Holding the mass
The demon is cast
To resurrect your soul
Calling to him
Is like an evil sin
A prophet is what they're told
Taking the land under command
Killing friend or foe
Feel the might of his evil wrath
Desecrate your soul!
Disciples of the watch
Obey!
Or I'll burn you to that cross!
Cast to the fire
Banned by the light
Worship and listen to me
Condemned in his mind
In his evil place
Your fate is all that you'll see
For I am the one
To show you the path
Salvation is in the fields
Listen up children and follow me
Or I'll let you pay the price
Of Malachi!
Disciples of the watch
Obey!
Lies... broken dreams
Dismal past
is there more in life...
should I... know
Ending wars... ending pain
Ending of mankind is insane
and there's all the possibilities
some will fail and some will achieve
Even through in my youth
I didn't know but what can I do
and I may not ever see
In my pain, my suffering
Can not live for the rest of my life
DNR Do not resuscitate me...
Life... lost unseen
behind the mask
and with the open arms will I grasp
Open doors... open minds...
Ending all the madness I hate
And I may not ever see
In my pain, my misery
Can not live for the rest of my life
DNR Do not resuscitate me... DNR...
Wing of sadness... will
hold my prayers
all this madness... will
end my fears
contempt in life
Conceptualize, wrong or right
The ending of life...
God save me now...
Time... end it now
No going back
Can you see the light ass you pass
Ending wars, ending pain...
Waited all my life to be saves
And I will not ever see
All the hate and suffering
Can not live for the rest of my life
Listen now to my sordid tale
My words they speak to you
They testify
You can't deny
You see it's on so true
I dwell in thoughts
Of the universe
What's immorality ?
it's said to be
The lies they breed
The pages start to bleed
How can this be ?
Let go of my world
Let it go ...
Touch my soul
With subliminal sin
Deceptions they induce
Ingest the lies
Dissect the mind
You can't control the youth
Enslave the free
With conformity
Oppression takes its toll
Hey little man
Who are you
To try to take control
Of my soul ...
Let go of my world
Let me go ...
Bleed me dry
Read between the lies
Filter out the truth
Pick at my brain
Brand me insane
I know what I must do
take my life into my own hands
My sins I will atone
It I don't cry
I will reside
Inside mental home
Home sweet home ... Let go of my world
Here we go
The people show
Victims of tomorrow
The way it goes
It never shows
Emptiness or sorrow
There is nothing left inside
Nothing left to cry for
So I justify my crimes
Things I must die for
So alone
Away it goes
The life that you have wasted
You never know
Where is might go
The sweet success you've tasted
Tasted by a bitter frown
Knowing I must die for
Can't confide, to all the lies
No one to inquire
As I wander, change of seasons
As I realize
That I'll soon be there
I'll let you know
The reapers show
Makes you beg or borrow
He comes to see
The tragedy
His fate he will not follow
Wearing your electric crown
The preacher starts to pray
Shiver as the lights go down
Heed these words I say
As I wander
Change of seasons
I can't ponder
I got my reasons
As I realize
I don't care
All I know is
That I'll soon be there
Now it's gone
The time has come
The people stand in silence
Another dawn
Has come and gone
His fate has been decided
There is no one left inside
A brain without a mind
Traces of a bitter man
Are all you will find
As I wander
Change of seasons
I can't ponder
I got my reasons
As I realize
I don't care
All I know is
That I'll soon be there
That I'll soon be there
That I'll soon be there
Take a look away
Think about the things you say
The day awaits your soul in chains
Ya got to make it today
Or there will be hell to pay
And there is no other way
Look at how you're living now
Life can always bring you down
the cradle to the grave
All I give is all I save
Every day's the same
Can you still feel the pain
You lose your mind then go insane
I can't talk to you
You can't tell me what to do
What I need is up to you
Look at how you're living now
Life can always bring you down
the cradle to the grave
All I give is all I save...
And I wonder how they live
Always taking what they give
Never far,always near,lose your mind
Gripping you with...fear...
What's done is done...
Hey,Slave,take it to the grave
Walk in someone else's shoes
That's the path you paved
Live,die,take off that disguise
Find your own reflection now
In the pool it lies
Now you know the score
You can't take this hell anymore
You feel like you never did before
Go and find the way
You're closer to it everyday
Yes,this is the price you pay
And I wonder how they live
Always taking what they give
Never far,always near,lose your mind
Gripping you with fear...
Take a look,what do you see
Image in the mirror
Yesterday is yesterday
You'll meet your marker
I know that time grows old
Can't stop the seasons
Shifting sands slip through your hands
Time is gone before it's begun...
CHORUS
A little more
A little more for every day
Lord why
Oh tell me why
Do the seasons slowly grey?
Days of blue just turn to grey
The picture slowly aging
Nothing left to the memory
Death will not forsake them
God fearing people say
They are not afraid of dying
So why do they turn to faith
When faith has no meaning in life?
Time worn,worn time
Say goodbye to yesterday
After life,life after
It's all the same
The golden years bring out the pain
Death rolls in like the seasons change
You've lost all hope but still you pray
Aging eyes that fail to see
The mirror has been shattered
Death's knocking on their door
A vision filled with laughter
I know that time grows old
Can't stop the seasons
And as the end draws near
The story's over before it's begun...
[Music: Ramirez, Peterson]
[Lyrics: Ramirez, Peterson]
Witches grow restless
The priests are impatient
My legions scream
The gates must be open
Our master repels
A massage of hope
On through the gates we march
The sentinels await
With their sabers in grasp
A vast group locust attack [2]
Attacking with force
As we show no remorse
Obstructing our victims fate
The blood in the chalice
Saluting the fight
All virgins must die this night
Psychotic reaction from a serpents kiss
Is taking the life from our soul
And leading a train of destruction from hell
Finding our way through hells hole !
CURSE OF THE LEGIONS OF DEATH [3]
CURSE OF THE LEGIONS OF DEATH!
PROVOKE THE DEAD! [2]
CURSE OF THE LEGIONS OF DEATH
Melting Ice Beneath the wave
Frozen ice sheets
Slowly start to break away
Another cycle has begun
The ice is flowing
The melt down has begun
Fall of siple dome...
The core reveals the past
Of a world once lost...
Shifting ice plates below
without warning
inter glacial sudden death
Land of ice, free to roam
Global warming
The sea will overflow
Sheets below, float in time
Arctic death millenium
Melted ice floods the earth
in twenty thousand years
the process repeats
Under ice the river flows
Swiftly moving
Falling earth into the sea
Death is slowly on the move
The level's rising
and there's nothing we can do
Fall of siple dome...
The core revealed the past
Of a world once lost...
Man will find the climate change
mandatory
Extinction of the human race
Apocalypse millenium
Our world gets colder
to meltdown by the sun
Sheets below, float in time
Arctic death millenium
Melted ice floods the earth
in twenty thousand years
the process repeats
And in the end yu will find
under the sea earth will rise
Freezing, melting, oceans, rise...
Tidal waves found the shore
Destroying cities
No longer can be recognised
Devastation to us all
The sea will rise
and a world soon to fall
Fall of siple doom...
The core revealed the past...
of a world once lost...
Damn the machine the system's corrupted
Abusive power is everywhere
Our elected officals, pass laws to help
But who's paying them off
And in the end, we the people pay
Such a heavy price, just for being alive
And if this country was really free
We'd make paper from hemp and let the forest live
But corporate America, and billion dollar industries
Have so much power
Yet they stand to lose
Too much fucking money
There's nothing we can do... but...
Take back all that we've lost
At any price that it costs
Our freedom was worth fighting for
Resistance now or nevermore
Solo: James
And what about the CIA
What the fuck is their real job anyway
Starting civil wars in Third World countries
Importing heroin from the far east
Talk about cocaine, neither kept away
From the youths of today... now
There's nothing we can do... but...
Take back all that we've lost
At any price that it costs
Our freedom was worth fighting for
In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
Of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.
In 1906
Like the future predicts
The city will crumble to the bay
Then what's in store
When the worlds go to war?
Peace will have come another day
Then came the one
In the year of '41
Warfare would light up the sky
He beckoned the call
Of the future for all
Blinded by what's in his eyes
In days of old
When the books were untold
Speak of a world crushed by sin.
"The people will mourn
Of a war to be born"
Nobody would listen to him.
Think back in time
When the future you find
Is so faint that it's too hard to see.
Don't disavow his word
For the truth must be heard
Cause the preacher tells visions he sees.
Listen to these words I preach
Catastrophic lessons they shall teach
Listen to these words I preach
False leaders crowned, a world of mass destruction
Can't wash the lies away death messiah to whom people pray
Election day spitting bullshit to the enslaved
Make them believe compromised insanity
The time is now, rise up from destitution
We won't lay down, resist the persecution
Inspired hate controlled by endless faith
Sins washed away the bloody shores of humanity
Unholy war, mankind is blind and bleeding
Indoctrinate, shatter all of the people's faith
The time is now, rise up from destitution
We won't lay down, resist the persecution
The time is now, rise up from destitution
We won't lay down, resist the persecution
I will fight relentlessly
I stand tall defiantly
I see what you cannot see
I invoke the beast in me
I fear not the agony
I breathe hope inside of thee
I will kill the enemy
I fulfill my destiny
A swarm of death engulfs the sky forever
Blocks out the sun, the desecration of salvation
The end is near, elected false messiah
Plan put in gear, the formation of damnation
The time is now, rise up from destitution
We won't lay down, resist the persecution
The time is now, rise up from destitution
We won't lay down, resist the persecution
Eyes, see, hands bleed
When I say rise up
When I say war
That means the time is now
To even up the score
The leader speaks
His plan has failed before
Enlisted soldiers
Awaiting orders
It's time for justice
Just like before
Our troops protect and serve
Are they ever coming home
So much regret
Another killed by war
Such a tragedy
Enlisted soldiers
Obey their orders
When I say rise up
You say war
When I say rise up
You say War!
Rise Up... War!
Rise Up... War!
Rise Up... War!
Rise Up... War!
The smell of death
Reeks through the air
The stench of burning bodies
Bloodshed everywhere
Scattered remains
And bullet shells
Send in the dogs of war
Unleash the hounds of hell
It's time to rise up!
It's time to rise for war!
It's time to rise up!
Black is death!
And red is war!
Yeah I said rise up
And you said war...
All for one and one for all
The perfect world war
All of the rest
Will fail just like before
Such a tragedy
The fallen soldiers
They followed orders
When I say rise up
You say war
When I say rise up
You say War!
Rise Up... War!
Rise Up... War!
Rise Up... War!
Time is nothing but life's decay
Pitch your reverend path
This is the path you paved
What you will find
Is life's only way
There's no looking back
There must be a better way
Lightning skies
Prayers from an open grave
A dead man's eyes
Must be a dead man's day
What you will find
Is life's only way
There's no looking back
Back to a better way
Black skies fade to shadow grey
The darkness is so deep
Prayers for the light of day
What you will find
Is life's only way
There's no looking back
Back to a better way
Lightning skies
Prayers from an open grave
A dead man's eyes
Must be a dead man's day
That leads to one man's fate
There ain't no better way to die
Fate, there's no compromise
Hate leads to suicide
Trapped in a crystal haze
Hail to a dead man's day
Time is but a passageway
Trying to believe
Your life was sanity
A matter of time
Is all that you need
Life's not coming back
Back to those better days
Lightning skies
Prayers from an open grave
A dead man's eyes
Whenever I stumble, Whenever I fall
Whenever I'm pushed against the wall
The white man's world won't tell me what to do
Nowhere to run, my native blood
I want to reach and touch the sun
Blistering my soul but I can't feel
You hear me say, get out of my way
I'll do it my own way
Cross my path and get what you deserve
I'm warning this world
To stay out of my way
My voice will be heard
I'm alone
I won't be afraid
I got something to say
My voice will be heard
So loud
Native Blood
Forever proud, so goddamn loud
It's me alone against the crowd
Right or wrong it's the road I must choose
There's no excuse, attitude
Got something here the I must prove
Live to win instead of born to lose
I'm warning this world
To stay out of my way
My voice will be heard
So strong
I won't be afraid
I got something to say
My voice will be heard
So loud
Native Blood
1st Solo Alex
I learned to walk before I could crawl
Whenever pushed, I push back
Not afraid to throw the first punch
I'm never wrong 'cause I'm always right
And when I'm wrong i won't admit it
I'm the person your mother warned you about
They broke the mould after I came out
What gives me strength is my beliefs
2nd Solo Eric
Whenever I stumble, Whenever I fall
I won't be pushed against the wall
The white man's world won't tell me what to do
Nowhere to run, native blood
I want to reach and touch the sun
Blistering my soul but I can't feel
I'm warning this world
To stay out of my way
My voice will be heard
I'm alone
I won't be afraid
I got something to say
My voice will be heard
So loud
Native Blood
I'm warning this world
To stay out of my way
My voice will be heard
So strong
I won't be afraid
I got something to say
My voice will be heard
So loud
Native Blood
We all will go and stay sometime
Soon to be victim of a crime
Loss of blood and death is near
Take a number, can you wait right here
Check in - to the place
Reduce your life into disgrace
Isn't there some kind
Of better way
When it's time to operate
Fatalistic figures hold your fate
Just relax you'll feel no pain
Hope they put you in the right domain
Patient helpless to defy
Negligence is why
Check in - to the place
Reduce your life into disgrace
Isn't there some kind
Of better way
Within the laws
They'll rip you off
They write you off
Malpractice!
And in the end
They'll let you in
Please come again
Malpractice!
Suffer until you get well
Bleak existence like a prison cell
If you find your life is lost
Dedicate the world to pay the cost
Patients helpless to defy
Negligence is why
Check in - to the place
Reduce your life into disgrace
Isn't there some kind
Of better way
Within the laws
They'll rip you off
They write you off
Malpractice!
And in the end
They'll let you in
Please come again
One life is the way they live
Not far from a world of sin
Ride hard is the reason to
Live life with a fist of doom
No rest, no time, no fear
In the way they die
Last dance in the dead of night
A steel horse is what the henchmen ride
American bliss, American pride
In a world where they live and die
Respect for the members in
Their club when the henchmen ride
Forward, shifting gears
In the wind the henchmen ride
Engines roar with the energy
More miles and the wind and speed
Going fast is a way of life
Living life when the henchmen ride
Forward, shifting gears
In the wind the henchmen ride
Their brotherhood is blood
That's all they really need
Never asking for forgiveness
Their only love is life
Cause life is their machine
Riding hard is the future that they see
Freedom, rider, henchman, lifer
Forward, shifting gears
In the wind the henchmen ride
Ride
American bliss, American pride
In a world where the henchmen ride
Going fast is a way of life
No fear in the way they die
Forward, shifting gears
Locked in the darkened world
Made to never last
That's where the dreams you seek
Are like stories from the past
Sweet infant child's born
Sweet mother of the womb
Hope it is over soon
Not much more can I take
Help me lord
I'm falling fast
Bring me back
Nerves slip away from
Within your conscious mind
Translucent hopes are now
Nothing but dismal lies
You lived your life so down
To the bitter end
Better think it over now
Your life has just begun
Help me lord
I'm falling fast
Bring me back
From suicide
Just show me life is how
And not a bitter war
The odds in favor now
It's hard to live and learn
Silence the sorrow
And don't let it slip away
Think of tomorrow
As the future of today
Help me lord
I'm falling fast
Bring me back
From suicide
I'm falling fast!!
Locked in the darkened world
Made to never last
That's where the dreams you seek
Are like stories from the past
Sweet infant child's born
To the mother of the womb
Hope it is over soon
Not much more can I take
Help me lord
I'm falling fast
Bring me back
From suicide
Predicting war, predicting life, predicting when disaster strikes
Living life, living death, living on borrowed time
End of time, end of days, end of all the things you save
See the future, see the past, what does he have in store...
Through the years, through the eyes and the lies
The world he sees has become no surprise
Through the years and the tears and the lies
Condemned to hell, condemned to fate, condemned to time
Sacrament, sacrilege, altar to a sacrifice
Smell the blood, smell the death, smell the stench of demons' breath
Filled with love, filled with hate, filled with hope that dissipates
Fallen hero, fallen god, fallen victims that we've become
Through the years, through the eyes and the lies
The world he sees has become no surprise
Through the years and the tears and the lies
Condemned to hell, condemned to fate, condemned to time
When you step into the circle prepare yourself as we choose your fate
Testament / Billy, Skolnick, Peterson
All that can escape me, all I realise
That it will come back to me the day my father dies.
His burning eyes would stare at you
I was born a masochist
I cried out in pain, as he clenches up his fist
Slowly as the years go by, the darkness builds inside
Trying to find a passage out, before I lose my mind
Incestuous temptation but what is wrong or right
Why must I fall victim of hereditary spite?
Soon! We will arise, forming despise
Conceptual intempt!
Blessed in contempt!
Thoughts have now come back to me
It's time to perpetrate
Take me to my sanity, before it gets too late
Hear me as I call to you, right here down below
Resurrect my will to live, come before I... go!
Soon! We will arise, forming despise
Conceptual intempt!
Trapped in a nightmare
Prisoners of warfare
Days gone become years
Of suffering ...
Fight on but what's to gain ?
Misfortune leads to pain ...
Fearless they won't die
Caged in they ask why
Cry out but don't cry
In agony ...
Live on but what's to gain
Die slowly everyday
Misfortune leads to pain
Will they ever be saved
From agony, Agony, Agony
In silent suffering
It's never ending
They pray to end their
Misery ...
Fight on but what's to gain
Die slowly everyday
Misfortune leads to pain
Will they ever be saved
From agony, Agony, Agony
Agony
Missing in action
Never forgotten
America the mighty
Set them free ...
Fight on but what's to gain
Die slowly everyday
Misfortune leads to pain
Will they ever be saved
From agony, Agony, Agony
When my old man he said to me you're growing fast boy there's so much to see
You take a wife, new born, a family, he said you'd see when it comes time
To be a man to do what's right
You'll always find a way to make your way through life
When my old man he said to me treat mankind with dignity
Start with no one finding someone that you need
Wonder where we go, is there really an afterlife
Never growing old, going home will free his spirit
When my old man he said to me the world moves fast boy with no guarantees
Trust in no one till you find someone you believe
Then my father past away from this world to a grave
Mother earth, sands of time a better place, the afterlife
Wonder where we go, is there really an afterlife
Never growing old, going home will free his spirit
Never ending love, is there hope in the afterlife
Reach into my soul, I'll see my dad in the afterlife
When my old man was alive he always would teach
When my old man was alive he always believed in me
He helps shape his son, the man that I've become
Then my old man said to me embrace the past
Listen son carry on our legacy
Then my father passed away from this world to a grave
Mother earth, sands of time a better place, the afterlife
Wonder where we go, is there really an afterlife
Never growing old, going home will free his spirit
Never ending love, is there hope in the afterlife
Reanimate!
Opinions of the masses
Revolutions calling
Wreaking havoc in the streets
Aggravated aggression
Is sold for all our own freedoms
Occupy the system
And release the grip on us
Military forces
Are called in for reinforcements
Blue and gold failures
Denied to keep control and order
Not another hostage
Will be taken under
March to defy!
Stand up and be counted...
All the innocent and free
All those who can see
My back is against the wall
Freedom for nothing, freedom for speech
Freedom to believe
My back is against the wall
All of the hypocrisy
Damn your government
My back is against the wall
All of the corruption now
It doesn't make any sense
My back is against the wall
A day in the death
A broken creed
Your so called life in which we lead
Forgotten dreams left behind
Is all I'll find
Just a day in the death
A day in the death
A day in the death of mankind
Something inside of me says
The balance of life is at hand
Thousands of protesting mothers
Come here to rally in hordes
Together, forever
Together, for ever and ever
Just a day in the death of mankind!
Reanimate!
Opinions of the masses
Revolutions calling
Wreaking havoc in the streets
Aggravated aggression
Is sold for all our own freedoms
Occupy the system
And release the grip on us
All the innocent and free
All those who can see
My back is against the wall
Freedom for nothing, freedom for speech
Freedom to believe
My back is against the wall
All of the hypocrisy
Damn your government
My back is against the wall
All of the corruption now
It doesn't make any sense
My back is against the wall
A day in the death
A broken creed
Your so called life in which we lead
Forgotten dreams left behind
Is all I'll find
Just a day in the death
A day in the death
Cast before my eyes deceive me
A vision of my life
Cannot seem to help myself
The helpless won't survive
Free us from the beds of hell
Heavens over thrown
The ruler of the realm is seen
In evil and of sorrow
Blessed is the strength of man
Imbedded life entombed
Blessed is the strength of man
Feeding off the sickened hands
Of man and his abuse
Save you save me
Help us, I'm so afraid
Help you help me
Save us, and everybody!
I first started thinking I was insane
Tried to talk but could not really say
I turned my pressure into the pain
Let reality slip away!
I have to face my punishment
My sins I will repent!
As I look to the heavens above
Reach for the sky to be touched by the love!
Cast before my eyes deceive me
A vision of my life
Cannot seem to help myself
The helpless won't survive
Blessed is the strength of man
Imbedded life entombed
Feeding off the sickened hands
Of man and his abuse
Save you save me
Help us, I'm so afraid
Help you help me
Save us, and everybody!
He died on thorazine
Lost life and any hopes
Laid him down on a bed of steel
Laid downtown at the city morgue
John Doe... a man haunted by his past
John Doe... his lost soul will never rest
He was raised as an orphan
Abuse victim as a child
Dreaming haunting memories
Made John Doe take his own life
John Doe... a man haunted by his past
John Doe... realize that you're dead
He who is victimized can never grasp
Never ever knowing what is love...
He was a bitter man an only son
Never ever knowing what is... love... no love
Take heed to my warning
Even though I might be wrong
Fulfill life full of love
Or you'll end up just like John
John Doe... a man haunted by his past
John Doe... his lost soul will never rest
John Doe... a man haunted by his past
John Doe... realize that you're dead
John Doe... John
Do you believe in the darkness below
Well I can summon them up
If you really want to know
As I tow the line
between bad and evil
Nothing can touch me now
True believer
Born in sin where I pledge my evil oath
Violence is golden now
Did you really want to go
As I draw the line
between bad and evil
Nothing can touch me now
True believer
True believer...
nothing can stop me now
and nothing can touch me now
True believer...
No use in praying forever shall I roam
Smoke dusted angels now
It's the only way I know
As I cross the line
between bad and evil
Nothing can touch me now
True believer
Ash to ashes, Dust to dust
all I ever wanted was power of the blood
Pause, Now look what I have done
What I have become
I'm the choosen one
Never gonna take me
Never gonna change me
Never gonna escape me now...
Do you believe there is evil in my soul
One final high is the way
That I really want to go
As I cross the line
between bad and evil
Nothing can touch me now
Stand tall and be proud,
Is there an end in sight,
Ever since conception,
Always fighting for your life
Fear nothing,
Say nothing,
Pledge allegiance to what's right,
Revolution overnight
For all the disservice,
Into peril we fell,
My instincts ticking like a time-bomb,
The human race implodes
[Pre-chrous]
Some choose to celebrate
Some choose to hate,
Some choose to live their life,
Through someone else's pain
All those who follow,
All those who hate,
All those with faith,
Show us your colors,
American hate!
[Chorus]
True American hate! (x3)
Stand up and be counted,
Stand up for what's right,
Fall to resurgence,
Intuition overnight
The final plot in question,
Evil mind over turned,
So many flags of hate,
So many nations scorned
[Pre-chrous]
[Chrous]
Underneath the surface,
There toils your hell,
I'm ticking like a time-bomb,
Watch the world explode!
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus]
I was born into a womb so insane
Over crowded as we share the same veins
You will not be...
More man than me...
I... will not be the other...
I am the one... the chosen son
Who devours and smothers
Violence is not the way...
What am I anyway...
Implantation as they ripped us apart
Joined together cause we share the same heart
You will not be...
More man than me...
You... will not be the other...
I am the one... the chosen son
Who devoured his brother...
Hurt... help... hell...
And now you will see... that we will be
Always... together as one
Always together as... one
Will not be half a man
We're joined together as... one
The dominant son, who was joined as one
Always wonders why
The unborn son, who lives inside his head
Can never die
Violence is not the way...
Damaging vows I take...
The one who was built of rage
Bow down before I
Prayed forgiveness
From the father above
Joined together
But not bonded by love
I will not be...
More man than he...
We... will not have each other...
I am the one... the burden son
Who devoured his brother...
Hurt... help... hell...
And now you will see... that we will be
Always... together as one
Always... together as one
Will not be half a man...
Testament/Billy
Yeah! The way I feel, seems to me to be so real
So sick and tired you know just how I feel
Cops they dress in black, they bid their lives
The bribes they stack, so sick and tired
Of the same old this and that
The time is coming, it's too soon I can't quite tell
I don't know, I think my world has gone to hell
The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel
I don't know, that's the way that it makes me feel!
The man I most resent
You might know him through the government
He'll tax our lives the money's spent
He's just the president!!!
The land of liberty for all mankind and all to see
What's the use, laws a conspiracy
The time is coming, it's too soon I can't quite tell
I don't know, I think my world has gone to hell
The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel
I don't know, that's the way that it makes me feel!
Searching for answers to make life complete
No need to search for more questions
There for you to see!
The wars that we must fight
You dodge the draft before you drive
So sick and tired, why can't they realise
The rights they sympathise
So sick and tried, why can't we live our lives
The time is coming, it's too soon I can't quite tell
I don't know, I think my world has gone to hell
The time is coming, life it spins just like a wheel
Behold now, the power i wield that comes from my soul
Crimson reign, reign through the fire of bodies I claim
Legions of darkness I call unto thee, decisions I make for I rule blacken thy kingdom of warriors above eager to storm iron gates...
God of war
Fire born
Throne of Thorns
God of war
No remorse
Fire born
"Listen to these words, to what I have said
from my throne of thorns is where I shall rule
keeper of all, bringer of death!
To challenge me, off with your head!"
Crimson lust, warlords of torment that do what I please
Power mad, opposing armies I feed on your death
The fatally wounded forever forgotten,
histories written in blood
The pillaging forces, blinded by hate
my kingdom is out of control
God of war
Fire born
Throne of Thorns
God of war
No remorse
Fire born
"I am the master and you are the slave,
commanded to do what I say
Bring down the heavens my legions await..
eager to storm the iron gates!"
[Alex Solo]
Behold now, the power I wield comes straight from my soul
Crimson reign, reign through fire of bodies I claim
Legions of darkness I call unto thee, decisions I make for I rule blacken thy kingdom of warriors above eager to storm iron gates...
God of war
No remorse
God of War
Throne of thorns
Fire born
Throne of thorns
In a world polluted inside
let's pretend the nightmare is done
from the earth the magma will rise
From the sea comes cancerous tides
The meaning of life ends in prophecy
Premonitions bring tragedy
is the hope for humanity
Molten fire.. flies thru the sky
Burning high... eclipse of the sun
Blackened skies
Rites of the night
The days in darkness in 2012
Mother earth's been withered by time
Already dead and we didn't even know it
Watch the stars to give us a sign
From above, all the angels descend
The meaning of life ends in agony
Raped by impurites
Not chance for humanity
Molten fire.. flies thru the sky
Burning high... eclipse of the sun
Blackened skies
Rites of the night
The days in darkness in 2012
Magma splits the earth and shifts below
Molten lava bursts and overflow
Rise as we wait, annihilate
Burning earth pulls to the sun
Rise as we wait, obliterate
Burning earth pulls to the sun
Three days of dakness in 2012
Mega cities still blaze in the night
Burning the ashes they choke
From the earth the magma will rise
Enveloped in poisonus smoke
so the meaning of life ends in prophecy
Premonitions of tragedy
still no hope for humanity
Molten fire.. flies thru the sky
Burning high... eclipse of the sun
Blackened skies
Rites of the night
Suit up for destruction
Death looks behind many faces
Hatred plants its deepest seed
In the most obvious places
Symbols of allegiance
Chaos spells devotion
The master plan is set in motion
Oh,Yeah!!
What the hell are you proud of
Heads held low
Self respect must be carved
Evil poisons taste just like wine
Swallow the lies until you are blind
You're going blind
Now let it flow...
Waiting to deliver
Imposing martial laws of pain
KKK or CIA
They are one and all the same
Chorus
Evil poisons taste just like wine
Swallow the lies until you are blind
You're going blind
Can't get to me
Or abuse me
Your racist tears will amuse me
And then you'll bleed...
Now let it flow...
Charismatic leaders
Preach their sermons of ignorance
please take heed soon my friends
promises won't cleanse the sins
Say hello again, my friends
I've got to go
The ritual calls to me
Silent insanity
You really thought you'd never
Be the one who bleeds
It's all so clear to me now
Why they can't see ?
Revelations breaking through
The truth distorts
Untimely accident
Your precious mind is lost
Try to regain again my friend
Your sanity
The ritual calls to me
Melodic agony
You really never thought you would never
Be the one who bleeds
It's all so clear to me now
Why they can't see ?
Free away your mind
Walk behind the blind
Kill yourself killing time
Oooh, what'cha gonna say
When you are on your way
On your darkest day
Hey Darkest day
say goodbye again, my friends
I'm coming home
The ritual calls to me
Distant reality
Unless images expose
What I can't see
The ritual call to me
Won't ever set me free
You really thought you'd never
Be the one who bleeds
It's all so clear to me now
Why they can't see ?
Fry away your mind
Walk behind the blind
The noose around my neck cinched in tight unmercifully
The tighter that it gets enables only my eyes to see
Truth through all the dust, twisted lies, which you decree
System unjust, you will never bend my knees
The broken and the blessed both sides try to preach to me
Social unrest, who labeled me the enemy
In pieces shall we rest, for those who choose not to believe
So put me to the test, who wrote those pages of history?
Subject to another threat, living without regrets
Pay the price with my death, the persecuted won't forget
I cannot breath, you watch the pain suffocating me, lie lies
I cannot breath, you watch me bleed suffocating me
Can't break away my heart still beats unsevered
My soul be saved amen condemned forever
I've been awakened can't be mistaken
The lessons beseech you break free from the noose
The noose around my neck cinched in tight relentlessly
The tighter that it gets, my heart still beats but I can't breath
In pieces shall we rest, for those who chose not to believe
Liberty in death, after all is said you won't break me
Subject to another threat, living without regrets
We're gonna take you back
Through the pages of the past
Just another lonely boy
I could laugh and play
And live in any other way
Then the devil took my soul
The fortune and the fame
I knew I was not the same
And I know I'd never return
Looking at the sky
I knew I would never die
And forever shining through
Wish the sky would say
That blue would turn to grey
And I know I'd be there
Life was like a fantasy
Taken by reality
Does anyone remember me
You once knew me
Flashes of the day
I knew I was here to stay
But no one stays the same
Turn the pages back in time
Through the chapters in my mind
Life's too short to leave behind
It's too late now
Life was like a fantasy
Taken by reality
Does anyone remember me
You once knew me
Flashes of the day
I knew I was here to stay
But no one
===================
Hear the screams, screams of fright
Shrieks of terror through the night
Souls of old band to hold
The meeting for the haunting night
Headless ghosts fill the halls
Shadow plays of grief and pain
Phantom speaks his final note
Tenants of the castle slain
Black cats will appear
As the witching hour nears
Lost souls will all be told
For a haunting we will go
See their dreams come to life
Under pressure holding tight
Feel the cold grabbing hold
To feed you on the haunting night
Evil witch, black as pitch
Starts a fire with a flinch
Burning fire rising higher
Making music like a choir
Children of the night
They're howling at black skies
The ruthless calls within
For the haunting now begins
Stay away from the shining light
Can't seem to find the answers there
Bring back the terror in the night
That we all share tonight
Hear the screams, screams of fright
Shrieks of terror through the night
Souls of old band to hold
The meeting for the haunting night
Headless ghosts fill the halls
Shadow plays of grief and pain
Phantom speaks his final note
Tenants of the castle slain
Black cats will appear
As the witching hour nears
Lost souls will all be told
The sky began to fall, ripping open a path up to Heaven
Time slowed to a crawl early morning September eleventh
Steel crumbling frames, the scales of justice are decimated
Hate ignites the flames, New York city incinerated
See the flames on the river, is this our judgement day?
Praying hands of a killer when evil flies our way
Our way
The towers got hit, a steel bird with wings of destruction
As the building split, the skyline has been deconstructed
So many people killed, two thousand nine hundred and seventy four
Innocent blood spilled, extremist plotting a holy war
See the flames on the river, terrorism sealed our fate
Praying hands of a killer reciting a sermon of hate
Will you please reconsider, is this our judgement day?
Time to stand and deliver when evil flies our way
Flies our way
We will pick up the pieces
We never cast the first stone
Through all the bereavement
We will rebuild our home
The sky began to fall, ripping opening a path up to Heaven
Time slowed to a crawl early morning September eleventh
See the flames on the river, terrorism sealed our fate
Praying hands of a killer reciting a sermon of hate
Will you please reconsider, is this our judgement day?
Time to stand and deliver when evil flies our way
Can't you see
That in the world we live in
Political lies
Are just corporate decisions
They'll take away
All the hopes, not their promises
They'll put an end to this
Land of the livin
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
They got control
Of the heart of a nation
Their social bribes
Seem so graciously
As time goes by
'Cause time as you can see
Will slowly die for you and me
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
So put an end
To this idolization
Antagonizing so commonly
Open your eyes
'Cause the lie's there so plain to see
Life goes on
There's no guarantees
Look at the lost souls
They seem so black
Look at the lost souls
Souls of black
I didn't mean to offend you
But you were way out of line
And I can't help the way I feel
Who said I feel fine ?
I'll only give you one warning
Then you must realize
The day of judgement is closing in
your selfish ways bring your demise
He who lies
Evil pays
Who are you ?
Who made you anyway ?
Wrong or right
Who's to say
I wanna know
Who made you God today
Slave to the ways of the system
Soon to be crucified
I've seen into your darkest fears
The ones you cannot hide
I know where you go when
Your fears start showing
You run, You cannot hide
Will they respect you when
You ask of the world,
Forgive me for so many lies' ?
He who lies
Evil pays
Who are you ?
Who made you anyway ?
Wrong or right
Who's to say
I wanna know
Who made you God today
Is there a need to pretend
To be a man, so divine
And even if I offended you
My truth you can't deny
I know where you go when
Your fears start showing
You run, You cannot hide
Will they respect you when
You ask of the world,
Forgive me for so many lies' ?
He who lies
Evil pays
Who are you ?
Who made you anyway ?
Wrong or right
Who's to say
I wanna know
Hate...
Hate is a lesson we know
Alone on its own it will die
It eats what it needs to survive...
It wants to survive
Every night you look deep in your soul
Burn the fields
Where the the hatred is grown...
Hate...
Hate always seething to find
some way to get to your brain
Infesting what's pure in the mind
Hatred divine...
Look around you is anyone pure
Free of hatred
Inside this cold world
Pre-conceived
Truth from lies
Blind to see
Thru sewn shut eyes
Hate breeds hate
Hate...
Always eager to rise
Above all to gain full control
Infesting what's pure in the mind
Evil entwined...
Even now that the seeds have been sewn
Burn the fields
Where the hatred still grows...
Hate breeds hate
How many have die
before we realize hate undermines
Hate...
Hate always eager to find
some way to tear out your soul
Surviving the passage of time
Dirty white lies...
Back in time as our history shows
Endless cycless
of hatred still flow
Pre-conceived heartless lies
Blind to see - thru sewn shut eyes
Is there still hope for us now?
I said - is there still hope for us now?
Music: Peterson
Lyrics: Billy, James
Doesn't know what to do anymore
Jesus makes love to the spike
A trick for a fix and feeling so sck
Just can't seem to get right
Once he was the king of his world
A world without any order
SOld it all without thinking twice
Just for a spoonful of water
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ceremonious ritual
Raising of the veins
Always early and feeling so late
Waving goodbye to the rain
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Slowly scratching away at the world
Fearless when he is stoned
Obsessed by dreams of what could've been
Trapped in his kingdom alone
Ride, ride on through
Ride, ride through you
Ride, ride on through
I'm gonna take you
To a place far from here
No one will see us
Watch the pain as it disappears
No time for anger
No time for despair
Won't you come with me
There's a room for us there
This innocent beauty
My words can't describe
This rebirth purity
Brings a sullen tear right to your eyes
No time for anger
No time for despair
Please let me take you
'cause I'm already there
I'm so alone
My head's my home
I'll return to serenity
Rhyme without reason is why children cry
They see through the system
That's breeding them just so they die
So please let me take you
And I'll show you the truth
Inside my reality
We shared in youth
CHORUS
I'm so alone
My head's my home
And I feel
So alone
You know
At last
I'll return to serenity
Now that I've taken you
To a place far from here
I really must go back
Close your eyes and we'll disappear
Won't you come with me
Salvation we'll share
Inside of my head now
There's a room for us there
Marching our way through the crypts of the dead
Taking his land by command
Killing our victims and taking no slaves
Hitler's final third reich
Engines are roaring the warheads ablast
The destroyer claims their fate
Hells legions armies
They march to defy
Lucifer takes his wait
Obeying this task by our leaders will
Death camps have taken their toll
The cold winds of winter are present forever
Destroyers claim their fate
Fighting our way through the mist of the night
Taking the life from young souls
Marching our armies prepared to fight
The cities all laid destroyed
Machineguns are firing the tanks are ablast
Bombing our way through hell
Generals smiling destruction strikes
Our armies have done well
Obeying this task by our leaders will
Death camps have taken their toll
The cold winds of winter are present forever
Destoyers claim their fate
Though the dead have trapped us in
We'll break the pact a deadly whim
Faisoned hammers wielded straight
Cursing us back to hell's gates
Black magic force thats taken it's course
The world lives in fear
The death calls are near
Awaiting this task battle at last
The worlds left to defy
Now's the time for you to die
Marching our way through the crypts of the dead
Taking his land by command
Killing our victims and taking no slaves
Hitler's final third reich
Engines are roaring the warheads ablast
The destroyer claims their fate
Hells legions armies
They march to defy
Lucifer takes his wait
Obeying this task by our leaders will
Death camps have taken their toll
The cold winds of winter are present forever
Testament / Billy, Peterson, Skolnick
You think your life's so grad
You don't believe a word you say
Your feet aren't on the ground
You let your life just slip away
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul
The promises you make, your mind so blank
And then you lose control, then you lose control!
I never was the one, the one to say the things you say
Never seem to wonder what you say
You think you've got your life completely in control
You've got a lot to learn, the bridge you burn
Is gonna take its toll!!! Pay the appropriate toll!!!
So practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
You think your life's so grad
You don't believe a word you say
Your feet aren't on the ground
You let your life just slip away
Just so uncertain of your body and your soul
The promises you make, your mind so blank
And then you lose control, then you lose control!
Pay the burnt bridge toll, then you lose control
Pay the burnt bridge toll, so practice what you preach
So practice what you preach!
Preach!
Practice what you preach!
Practice what you preach!
Deep in the pit and lying alone
Where death has reared itself a throne
We're all the good, the bad
The worst and the best
And where they land is their eternal rest
Foul plays of passion
At twilight's dim
In joy of woe, of good and sin
Winds of storm and fates overcast
Darkly my presence
Is now your past
Join the insanity
Or die as you fall
Into the pit!
The mass production
And the killing of all
Into the pit!
The future screams for help
Are fading away
Into the pit!
The world tomorrow
Will it die for today?
Into the pit!
Solo - Skolnick
So in the sad, silent watches of night
The lonely pathway envisions my sight
Echoes of laughter
And boundless cries
Son here I wander under infinite skies
Join the insanity
Or die as you fall
Into the pit!
The mass production
And the killing of all
Into the pit!
The future screams for help
Are fading away
Into the pit!
The world tomorrow
Will it die for today?
Testament/Skolnick
Bold is the one who dares to say what he feels
Renegation man, to one he yields
The bleeding hearts and empty minds, hiding words they fear
Blind is the one who censors what we see and hear
Come into my world and take a journey with me
Paint me a portrait now, of the things you see
Men are poor and lost in war of ideology
No solution will prevail unless we can be
Free on anger, free of pain
Free of hatred that we obtain
Tell me what this place was meant to be
Can you see? Can you see what it does to me?
Can you hear? Can you red?
Can you see what it did to me!
Totalitarians in a Perilous Nation
Forcing through control turns, to desolation
Listen to the leader speak, he's your only friend
Take a stand in the motherland, take it to the end
Say now what you will, before they make it illegal
Time to draw the line, between the bad and the evil
Distant times had friendly rules, became its deadliest foe
We have heard it all before, the morals come and go
Men are poor and lost in war of ideology
No solution will prevail unless we can be
Free on anger, free of pain
Free of hatred that we obtain
Tell me what this place was meant to be
Free on anger, free of pain
Free of hatred that we obtain
Tell me what this place was meant to be
Can you see? Can you see what it does to me?
Can you hear? Can you red?
Can you see what it did to me, can you hear? Can you read?
Can you see what it did to me
Can you hear? Can you read?
Lord I must be dreamin'
What else could this be
Everybody's screamin'
Runnin' for the sea
Holy lands are sinkin'
Birds take to the sky
The prophets are all stinkin' drunk
I know the reason why
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill at ease
Everything is on fire
Shit piled up to the knees
Out of rhyme or reason
Everyone's to blame
Children of the season
Don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known
And now he's blown it
Upside-down and hell's the only sound
We did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
Old St. Andres
Seven years ago
Shove it up their richters
Redlines come and go
Noblemen of courage
Listen with their ears
Spoke but how discouragin'
No one really hears
One of these days you'll be sorry
Too many houses on the stilt
Three million years or just a story
Four on the floor up to the hilt
Out of rhyme or reason
Everyone's to blame
Children of the season
Don't be lame
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known
And now he's blown it
Upside-down and hell's the only sound
We did an awful job
And now they say it's nobody's fault
Eyes are full of desire
Mind is so ill at ease
Everything is on fire
Shit piled up in debris
California showtime
Five o'clock's the news
Everybody's concubine
Was prone to take a snooze
Sorry, you're so sorry
Don't be sorry
Man has known
And now he's blown it
Upside-down and hell's the only sound
We did an awful job
Testament/Skolnick
You wanted money, you wanted fame,
You broke the rules before you know the game
Bounds tearing you up like a knife
Wis it was the end of your life, it's a nightmare
Going down that road on account of you
No escape from the things you put me through
I don't know, I don't care, I can't go anywhere,
It's a nightmare coming back to you!
Don't wanna die, just wanna live!
I've got stop taking what they give
So many roads moving all around
I only see the one going down it's a nightmare
Going down the road on account of you
No escape from the things you put me through
I don't know, I don't care, I can't go anywhere it's a nightmare
Coming back to you!
We got to fight, we got to try
When all is gone we'll know the reason why
To kill the enemy we will win the wars
To find the place our life was before, it's a nightmare
Going down that road on account of you
No escape from the things you put me through
I don't know, I don't care, I can't go anywhere
Psychological warfare
The first step in creating a situation
Dreams... of new... lies confused
Lies to you will truth shine through
What the rain won't wash away
The sun is black with shades of gray
Reflections of these stranger days
Live through new eyes
Die through old
New eyes... eyes... lies
Conflicting worlds upon your back
The weight will fate undo
Seen through eyes of new...
Crucify me sanctify me... now
Live through new eyes
Die through old
New... new eyes of old
Live... dream... die
Destined to repeat... doomed to forget...
Destined to repeat... doomed to forget...
Out with the old, in with the new
Naive and blind a curse for our time
We live our lives day by day
Our hearts bleed with fear... lies
It's not too late to make a change
We won't survive these strange days
Crucify me... sanctify me... now
Seen through new eyes die through old
New... new eyes of old...
New... new eyes of old...
Destined to repeat... doomed to forget...
Destined to repeat... doomed to forget...
New Eyes of Old
Life in the world untold, question the unknown
This prison captures me, my cell is all I know
I thought I knew it all, stubborn in my ways
My sentence has begun, my future's what I waste
Next chapter of my life is filled with violent scenes
I stay awake at night hiding from my dreams
The voices haunting me, driving me insane
Can't seem to get away, they're calling out my name
I feel that I am slipping
Are they out to get me
My life is upside down
More than meets the eye
For now I am in control, choosing my own fate
And now I sleep at night because I'm not afraid
My demons haunting me, I chased them all away
I've conquered all my fears, my destiny awaits
I'm no longer slipping
I'm not slipping away
No one's out to get me
No one will get in my way
No longer upside down
I've turned my life around
More than meets the eye
More than
Long befor the curtain call
The dregs they had been cast
Many screams and twisted dreams
Flames lead to the throne
Winds of change, keeps you searching for the truth
Sea of rage, slowly drowning wasted youth
Some poeple live to lie
Some poeple don´t
Some poeple turn there Cheek, while others hate!
Don´t ask why....
The broken world spins too slow, bitterness tasts sweet
Many paths, invoking wrath
The wolfs have stole the crown
Winds of change, keeps you searching for the truth
Sea of rage, slowly drowning wasted youth
Man kills mankind
Feeding the greed of the overfed swine
Man kills mankind
Again and again you choke on the vine
Man kills mankind
Feeding the greed of the overfed swine
Man kills mankind
Again and again you choke on the vine
Overfed swine you keep choking and choking...
[Alex solo]
Some poeple live to lie
Some poeple don´t
Some poeple are born to die
Some poeple won´t
Some poeple are well-to-do
Some poele ain´t
Some poeple turn there Cheek, while others hate!
Don´t ask why....
Man kills mankind
Feeding the greed of the overfed swine
Man kills mankind
Again and again you choke on the vine
Man kills mankind
Feeding the greed of the overfed swine
Man kills mankind
Again and again you choke on the vine
Man kills mankind
Again and again you choke on the vine, overfed swine,
You keep choking and choking...
Hail to the new leader now
Ruler of this land,
With plans that follow
To demonstrate
Fear the blackened band
So horrid
And deathly true
Dishonest and powermad
Unspoken, sealed fate
Bursting to desolate
His love to hate
He'll murder souls like me and you
But along the way
He'll have to dwell
In his own hell
Clear the streets
See them marching
While columns take a stand
Time provoked, their mirror of hatred
With dark uncanny plans
To take out
And follow through
Just following their orders
With death rates
And death's roll
Those poor unfortunate souls
His love to hate
He'll murder souls like me and you
But along the way
He'll have to dwell
In his own hell
Twisting and turning
Through the mazes in your head
But in a time like this
You're beter off dead
The time has come now
Put up or shut down
The feelings that you have
Were lost and never found
His love to hate
He'll murder souls like me and you
But along the way
He'll have to dwell
Promises you never meant to keep what I thought we had was love
Used to say I was the only one how could I be so wrong
When you chose me to be the one our life together has not begun
Manipulation, presume control the lights are broken inside my soul
Overcome by the emptiness delusions of true love
Cast into a very dark abyss crest fallen and undone
When you chose me to be the one you broke my spirit we can't go on
Insinuation it takes it's toll the lights are broken inside my soul
Now I have my reason to turn my back on you
Now I don't believe in you love lies bleeding through
Everything that meant so much to me I left it all for love
I gave you all that I had to give but it wasn't good enough
I thought I loved you but it's too late you said you love me but now I hate
Dead and buried let's fill the hole the lights are broken inside my soul
Now I have my reason to turn my back on you
Now I don't believe in you love lies bleeding through
I can't get away I hope you suffer I won't let love ever drive me insane
Unleash the pain laugh as you suffer you turned our love into my ugly shame
Sick of your ways sick of the future I take my life back to live it my way
Last chance for independence
call to arms to take a stand
fully armed, our forces strong
against the enemy we dance
Life lost for liberty,
blood shed to protect our homes
stand tall, divided we fall
the conflict takes it deadly toll
You struggle to breathe
Don't ever let go
the less we conceive
The stronger we grow!
Fight on for independence
charge through, demolished lands
ears ring to the hum of bullets
a tune a tragedy of man
never surrender, blood stains upon thy soul
burning flags and body bags
the price of liberty for all
The last thing you'll see
Is the last thing you'll know
The less we conceive
The stronger we grow
Facing our death
Struggle to breathe, choking on fear
in god we trust
Oppression for years
Blood sweat and tears
Will we ever know know
The stillness of the storm...
Can we readjust
Our failures into trust...
[Epic whammy solo]
[Alex solo]
Last chance for independence
the final call to make a stand
hold fast, united strong
against the enemy at hand
never surrender, blood stains upon thy soul
burning flags, and body bags
the price of liberty for all
You struggle to breathe
Don't ever let go
the less we conceive
The stronger we grow!
Facing our death
Struggle to breathe, choking on fear
in god we trust
Oppression for years
Asking for salvation at the stations of the cross, eternal is my pledge if eternal is thy loss
Back in the days of yore my country summoned me, enlisted willingly in defense of liberty
Eroding all alone like the mist upon the moss, eternal is my pledge an eternal holocaust
They summoned me, honorably, defend the cause, never repent, away I went, to defend the cause
When I was sent away they made a soldier from a boy
Victory will be achieved lethal weapons to destroy
Killing season, has begun with blood in my eyes the truth blames the lies
Machine gun, no place to run killing season
I was taught the art of war, kill
Exploding all alone like the blood upon the moss,
Eternal is my pledge if eternal is thy loss
They summoned me, honorably, defend the cause, never repent,
Away I went, to defend the cause
When I was sent away they made a soldier from a boy
Victory will be achieved lethal weapons to destroy
Killing season, has begun with blood in my eyes the truth blames the lies
Machine gun, no place to run killing season
Chosen one, with death on my hands, killing season
Art of war, kill on command, killing season
Killing season, killing season
Fools the ones who stray, the rain forest burns away
Know what to believe, this is the air we breathe
So the world we know is dying slow in South America
Flames are burning down, all the trees to the ground
Time is running low, we can't stay no more
Wealth these people see, fight for eternity
Lies they televise paid by their government
There on! It's lingers on
And they don't even care in they...
Seal the Planet's fate
Crimes they perpetrate
Wasting precious land
It's time to take a stand
Our only hope to breathe again
To stop the madness closing in
What will we do when all is lost?
Environmental holocaust... repeat
Foes, these people go, someone destroyed their home
Plagued with disease, left praying on their knees
Laws protect the land, social justice in demand
Smoke it fills the air into the atmosphere
Now it's time to see a cycle of a tragedy
On! It lingers on, and they don't even care if they
Seal the Planet's fate
Crimes they perpetrate
Wasting precious land
It's time to take a stand
Our only hope to breathe again
To stop the madness closing in
What will we do when all is lost?
Shadows glow from the full moonlight
Hear clouds cry, it's so insane
Souls hold on to the key of life
See how it's bleeding from the pain
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
It's live or die
Who am I?
Face in the sky
Walk with me, my friend to a darkened place
Welcome down to the abyss
Caught between two worlds with no advocate
The legion's army
Holds on to your fate
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
It's live or die
Who am I?
Face in the sky
Screams from the night
Seem to intensify
As the air shifts silent through
Ghouls crowded in the clouds
On a misty night
Guarding secrets
Man has brought to you
When will they open their eyes
Stop to face our demise
It's live or die
Who am I?
The psycho logic of the civilized, controlling thoughts within their eyes
Contamination of the chemical, the hidden force within the soul
Fear alive will come alive fear will go, through the darkness and the woes
There will be a light deep below, the sub-conscience only knows fear
The politician and their freedom fight, when all is wrong there is no right
The key of lies opening the door, to sacrifices in the holy war
The promise of eternal afterlife, manipulation internal strife
Forever-after has a fatal flaw, religious leaders above the law
Fear will come alive fear will go, through the darkness and the woes
There will be a light deep below, the sub-conscience only knows
Fear, fear, shattering the atmosphere fear, fear, travesty is here
Here, here, covering the path that's clear
Fear is only what you feel... false evidence appearing real
Black emotions grow on trees of scorn, seeds are planted from the day we're born
Plucked from darkness rushing to the light, instinct pulling you to fight or flight
Paralyzed, vilified, voices within your soul are calling from deep inside
Terrorized, victimized, false prophets - nothing more than thoughts within your mind
The penetration of a deep abyss, along a passage to nothingness
Within the corners of the hidden eye, is where the sources of evil lie
So if you suffer with no end in sight, the veil of fear is an endless night
Through confrontation it will be gone, the night is dark just before the dawn
Fear will come alive fear will go, through the darkness and the woes
There will be a light deep below, the sub-conscience only knows
Fear, fear, shattering the atmosphere fear, fear, travesty is here
Here, here, covering the path that's clear
[Instrumental Outro]
[Music: Peterson, Christian]
"Eerie Inhabitants" by TESTAMENT
A world of chaos
A world of fear
A world of anger and corruption
When all is lost
and millions starve
Is this humanity's destruction?
LIFE! A game that people play
CRYOUT! Will they see another day?
No one to help us,
the children pray
Nobody listens to their CRYING
This great depression
when will it end?
To live like this is worse than dying
LIFE! A game that people play
CRYOUT! Will they see another day?
Your destiny is over
your fate has declined
Refuse to discover
what so many could find
Death's endless toil
as I long for rest
Life's now forsaken
condemned to repress!
No sign of heaven
No sign of hell
Just the sign of pain and sorrow
This generation inhabits all
To form an order for tomorrow
LIFE! A game that people play
Music: Peterson
Lyrics: Peterson, Billy, James
Of dog faced gods
Through the Nile sands whisper
Of ancient times, mayfly names
Flickered and gone
The blood and honey
Dripping from their jaws
Through the Nile sands whisper
Ancient times, fade into the dawn
Of dog faced gods
Manifest in the night
The sacred rights
Handed down through tiems of old
Dark words of power
Blood upon their tombs
Through incantations
Locusts fly, signaling doom
Confirm who I am
Confort all I can
Conceive sorcery
Corrodes disbelief
Solo: James
Of dog faced gods
Dead civilzation
Through priests of power
Invoking life of the ancient one
The blood and honey
Dripping from their jaws
Through the Nile sands whisper
Travel through time to the land unkown
Confirm who I am
Confort all I can
Conceive sorcery
================
Living my life on borrowed time
Watching my dreams disappear
My fists slowly clench as my mind seeks control
My body trembles in fear
Life was looking up for me when I left home
It seems like yesterday
Now I'll never go back there again
Here is where I'll stay
Nobody can hear you scream or shout
Once you're in, you won't come out
You will never see the light of day
I'm the hunter, you're my prey !
Watching the clash between the forces below
>From up in the planes we're flying
Survivors are taken as prisoners of war
The others are slowly dying
I shiver as we strap on our parachutes
We line up to jump out the doors
We're already there and there's no turning back
I fall to the scene of the war
Nobody can hear you scream or shout
Once you're in, you won't come out
You will never see the light of day
I'm the hunter, you're my prey !
You can see me, flying right over your head
Try to stop me, you can't cause your armies are dead
To cross the blood red trenches of the dead below
Do or die, Hell's the place you'll go
Living my life on borrowed time
Watching my dreams disappear
My fists slowly clench as my mind seeks control
My body trembles in fear
Life was looking up for me when I left home
It seems like yesterday
Now I'll never go back there again
Here is where I'll stay
Nobody can hear you scream or shout
Once you're in, you won't come out
You will never see the light of day
Now that the sun won't shine
Slow down and take your time
Don't lose your mind it's all
Soul destroying lies
I've walked for miles
Past the sacred halls
SACRED HALLS!
My fists have bled
As I smashed the walls
SMASH THE WALLS!
Through this assault,
A voice says halt,
You're not supposed to be here
I saw my grave
I see no future
Am I insane
Woven by the fabrics of the...
Dark roots of the Earth
Echoes an eternity
Dark roots of the earthy
Will see us home eventually
Now that the sun won't shine
My world was left behind
All mankind was left behind
All mankind will rise and fall
Will anyone survive
Will we be saved
Is there a future left
What will it take
Woven by the fabrics of the...
Dark roots of the Earth
Echoes an eternity
Dark roots of the earth
Will see us home eventually
That's right!
Now that the sun won't shine
Slow down and take some time
The sands of time will fall
Left to ou demise
You hear the cries
Through the sacred halls
SACRED HALLS!
The people pray
To their God they call
GOD THEY CALL!
To save the Earth for its rebirth
Are we supposed to be here...
I saw my grave
I see no future here
Am I insane
Woven by the fabrics of the...
Dark roots of the Earth
Echoes an eternity
Dark roots of the Earth
There was a sign on an ancient veil,
A dream that never really was
She only ever seemed to hope for a world
So surreal to the touch
She doesn't want to wake
She only wants to sleep
Afraid of what they seek and where she's been
When she awakes, she bends to her knees to pray
Praying for the secret to be safe
Come take my hand
Follow the path to infinity
Come take my hand
Trapped in the dark for eternity
Come take my hand...
After all when the kingdom falls
Her walls are shattered from within
She tries to flee but she's trapped in this curse
Waiting for the cycle to begin
She doesn't want to wake from her eternal sleep
Afraid of what they know and where she is
She doesn't follow faith she's stuck in her belief
Sorrow is the color of her dream...
Long ago...
When she first opened her eyes
there's no tomorrow
The sun will never shine, no...
The sun will never shine
Yeah!
The sun will never shine on you
Daylight blinds your way The sun will never shine through you
Now accept this cold embrace
Come take my hand
Follow the path to infinity
Come take my hand
See everything that you want to see
Come take my hand
Find everything that you sought to seek
Come take my hand
Trading your life for immortality
Come take my hand...
Long ago...
When she first opened her eyes
There's no tomorrow
The sun will never shine, no...
The sun will never shine
Yeah!
The sun will never shine on you
Daylight blinds your way
There sun will never shine on you
Grace - in a perfect world
On shines the light
Praise - an angelic song
but there's another side you'll see
Now hide
salvation easily denied
Reigns - Down with misery
Life's not always what it seems
False hope
written in the testament of old
Take heed
stop believing everyword you read
Truth inconsistencies
Distorts the lie
False imprisonment
Forever lost inside your mind
Fates door
Just be careful what you wish for
Death's door
Just be careful what you wish for
Peace of mind I can't find
Don't be blind take the ride
Hey... we live in a fucked up world
Walking on through the demise
We step into the unknown
Your better save yourself...
Hey... we live in a fucked up world
Hiding behind the disguise
Never let your feelings show
Why can't you be yourself...
We live in a fucked up world
Walking on through the demise
We step into the unknown
===================
Come on and fight !
Witches grow restless, the priests are impatient
My legions scream, "The doors must be open !"
Our Master repels a message of hope
On through the gates we march
The sentinels await with their sabers in grasp
A vast group, a locust attack !
A vast group, a locust attack !
Attacking with force as we show no remorse
Obstructing our victims fate
The blood in the chalice saluting the fight
All virgins must die on this night
Psychotic reaction from a serpents kiss
Is taking the life from your soul
And leading a train of destruction from Hell
Finding our way through Hell's Hole !
Curse of the Legions of Death !
Curse of the Legions of Death !
Curse of the Legions of Death !
Curse of the Legions of Death !
Provoke the Dead !
Curse of the Legions of Death !
Provoke the Dead !
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Summoned to the house of seance
To play the evil tarot cards
To find out what our fate will bring us
Before the war
Approaching now the hour of tiamat
Evil feelings in the air
The chosen wait impatiently
To find the rituals of power
Come out of the fire
Making the legacy known
Predicted by the past
Takes its toll at last
Now knowing when it strikes
The endless feuding shows its fate
The people are all shocked with fright
They know the end is coming near
It's time to fight
The revolution holds on strong
The armies have all met their match
Entire world up in arms
Destruction sees the spirits of anger
Come up from the gallows
Conjured my demons appear
Summoned to my cast, prey this deadly mass
Taken by the fire you fail
The world became a vast wasteland
Survivors turn into cannibals
Killing everything in sight
Warfare tonight
The armies are all closing in
The population's getting small
Feelings are as cold as ice
Survival names its price
Starting to burn
The rape and violence grows high
A kingdom will rise
To rule with contempt
They will surprise
Kill and repent
The weakness in armies
"Won't die"
Leaving now the house of seance
Speculating destiny
Wonder if the cards were true
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Born into a world of hatred
Nothing to live for
What started with a simple match
Turned into something more
The pain I felt inside my head
Came on my day of birth
Now the time has come for me
To burn the planet Earth !
I can feel the fire burn inside of me
The power's at my fingers, waiting you shall see
Burn, ignite the population
Burn, causing mass cremation
Burn, feel no shame or pity
Burn, apocalyptic city
Years have passed as I stood still
To plan the final blow
I'll make the town go up in flames
A hellish death they'll know
As I pour on the gasoline
I listen deep inside
I hear the cries of all my victims
Nowhere to run or hide
I can feel the fire burn inside of me
The power's at my fingers, waiting you shall see
Burn, ignite the population
Burn, causing mass cremation
Burn, feel no shame or pity
Burn, apocalyptic city
Now my great assault is over
And my life is done
Staring at my great inferno
Was my only fun
So I leave you with my tale
Here my conscious falls
Victim of myself, so
Now I'll end it all
I can feel the fire burn inside of me
The power's at my fingers, waiting you shall see
Burn, ignite the population
Burn, causing mass cremation
Burn, feel no shame or pity
When I was but very young
Sorcerers came to claim my mind
Leaving death and hatred to unmask
The master of the game had won
And let his final sin be known
Killing those who stand in his path
Alone in the dark
Where the demons are torturing me
The dark passages of revenge is all that I see
Armies of witches
Are called in from the north
Murders of elders occur
The high priest of evil
Has lowered his iron fist
Thousands of people will die
The slaughter of the innocent
The house is burning
That lights the sky
My nightmare has begun to unfold
The hissing of the cobras tongue
Sound and feel of ripping flesh
Fall two thousand feet from the sky
My terror has controlled my life and
Let my only weakness known
I got to rid this hell from my head
I fight off evil sorcerers
Rid my mind of his torture and
Meet the falling angel in his realm
Alone in the dark
Where the demons are torturing me
The dark passages of revenge is all that I see
Faustus prepares the legions of the night
Diviners from the far north arrive
Aimlessly people there huddled in a pack
Wreaking deadly havoc on mankind
I fall in my deepest sleep
To meet the evil asteroth
His title is the grand duke of hell
I fight until the end is near
To rid my mind of hopes and fears
My destination lies in my dreams
Set me free
When I was but very young
Sorcerers came to claim my mind
Leaving death and hatred to unmask
The master of the game had won
And let his final sin be known
Killing those who stand in his path
Alone in the dark
Where the demons are torturing me
The dark passages of revenge is all that I see
Armies of witches
Are called in from the north
Murders of elders occur
The high priest of evil
Has lowered his iron fist
Life as we know,
Is full of gloom
Oppress the masses
We'll lead to our doom
We want the right
To live or die
Can't take away
What we feel inside
Like empty shadows,
Afflict our brains
Envision dreams
Just to ease the pain
There's more to life
That to satisfy
I ask myself
For the reason why.
If it were my way
I'd deliver us from this hell
If it were my way.
If ever there comes a day
Renovations blown away
Realize what we've thrown away
Is there no end
To this endless war
The fear of man
In now what's in store.
We look at life as a memory
Long live the dreams
That they took from me.
If it were my way
I'd deliver us from this hell
First there came a mass
Brilliant lights of flash
All across the president's skies
As he sits and laughs
He preaches non-conformity
I don't think they see
They live for him and what he believes
A wrath of misery
Left to die alone
In their living past
As he takes their lives away
To never get it back
No more need for society
All the lives he took
The fault of law and majority
Rules in an open book
Leave me alone
Don't take it away
A place where I know
They're destined to take away
Now the lives they lead
Are left to broken dreams
Just when they thought
They had it all
Life's not what it seems
He preaches non-conformity
I don't think they see
They live for him and what he believes
A life of misery
Leave me alone
Don't take it away
A place where I know
They're destined to take away
Don't take away
Society
There'll come a day
You're gonna pay
Day by day a day of reckoning
You're all gonna pay
Pounding the world like a battering ram
Forging the furnace for the final grand slam
Chopping away at the source soon the course will be done
Leaving a trail of destruction that's second to none
Hammering anvils straining muscle and might
Shattering blows crashing browbeating fright
Fast devastating and desolisating the curse
Blasting the cannons of truth through each man of this earth
Wielding the axe comes the one culmination
That's always seemed certain to bring down the curtain on greed
Sifting the good from the bad it's the age for the rage
Of the dogs which must fall to the just and be free
Now grate for the vandals who trampled and sampled
Till this place conditioned brought forth demolition to war
The slipping and sliding corrosive subsiding
That withered and wained till the world seemed all drained fills the bay
Pounding the world like a battering ram
Forging the furnace for the final grand slam
Chopping away at the source soon the course will be done
Leaving a trail of destruction that's second to none
Cuando tropiezo, y cuando me caigo
Y cuando me empujan en la pared
De este mundo blanco
No me debo esconder
No puedo correr, mi sangre nativa
Yo Quiero la sangre y tocar el Sol
Ampollas de lava en mi alma que no siento
Escúchame a mi, fuera de aquí
Lo haré a mi manera
Cruza en mi camino y tendrás lo que mereces
Advierto al mundo
Fuera ya paso
Escucha Mi voz
Estoy solo
No tengo miedo
Y Tengo algo que decir
Mi voz se escuchara
Mi sangre indígena
Orgulloso, Mi pecho Ruidoso
Solo, contra la multitud
De lo malo, el camino Escogido
Sin perfectos Mi actitud
No temo al mundo y demostrare
Vivir para ganar y No perder
Advierto al mundo
Fuera ya paso
Escucha mi voz
Estoy solo
No tengo miedo
Y Tengo algo que decir
Mi voz se escuchara
Mi sangre indígena
-Aprendí a caminar, Antes de Cambiar
Se me empuja, Cuidado!
No tengo Miedo para Odiar
No me equivoco, siempre tengo la razón
Late con mas fuerza
Soy lo que temías-
Cuando tropiezo, y cuando me caigo
Y cuando me empujan en la pared
De este mundo blanco
No me debo esconder
No puedo correr, mi sangre nativa
Yo Quiero la sangre y tocar el Sol
Ampollas de lava en mi alma que no siento
Advierto al mundo
Fuera ya paso
Escucha Mi voz
Estoy solo
No tengo miedo
Y Tengo algo que decir
Mi voz se escuchara
Mi sangre indígena
Advierto al mundo
Fuera ya paso
Escucha Mi voz
Tan fuerte
No tengo miedo
Y lo debo decir
Escucha mi voz
Sangre indígena
anything! why would you fight for nothing
solving! nothing but a plunbing stain
laughing! clean the shit up
i smear my hate on you
you hung it you hung why so dirty hay
you hung it you hung it is this the beginning of the end
ranked! but nothing ever smelt
hate! i only felt for you
unholy! what came out of you
you hung it you hung why so dirty hay
you hung it you hung it is this the beginning of the end
There was a sign on an ancient veil,
A dream that never really was
She only ever seemed to hope for a world
So surreal to the touch
She doesn't want to wake
She only wants to sleep
Afraid of what they seek and where she's been
When she awakes, she bends to her knees to pray
Praying for the secret to be safe
Come take my hand
Follow the path to infinity
Come take my hand
Trapped in the dark for eternity
Come take my hand...
After all when the kingdom falls
Her walls are shattered from within
She tries to flee but she's trapped in this curse
Waiting for the cycle to begin
She doesn't want to wake from her eternal sleep
Afraid of what they know and where she is
She doesn't follow faith she's stuck in her belief
Sorrow is the color of her dream...
Long ago...
When she first opened her eyes
there's no tomorrow
The sun will never shine, no...
The sun will never shine
Yeah!
The sun will never shine on you
Daylight blinds your way The sun will never shine through you
Now accept this cold embrace
Come take my hand
Follow the path to infinity
Come take my hand
See everything that you want to see
Come take my hand
Find everything that you sought to seek
Come take my hand
Trading your life for immortality
Come take my hand...
Long ago...
When she first opened her eyes
There's no tomorrow
The sun will never shine, no...
The sun will never shine
Yeah!
The sun will never shine on you
Daylight blinds your way
There sun will never shine on you
Procrastinating, pretending to worry
Solving problems by pushing them aside
Wasting time like we've all the time in the world
Deliberation instead of solution, another term for blatant lies
Biding time like we've all the time in the world
And I'm not the only one who thinks we're trying to say
To the heavens and all who hear us: Behold all we have made!
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we live in hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes...
We conquer paradise just to burn it to the ground
And we build a future to honour pasts we've left behind
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes...
The problems get worse before they get better
We find excuses to divert our eyes
Let tomorrow deal with what we could have done
And if you think we're the future, that we build tomorrow
When was the last day without a war?
We speak of greatness that we have never been
And I'm not the only one who thinks we're trying to say
To the heavens and all who hear us: Behold all we have made!
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we live in hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes...
We conquer paradise just to burn it to the ground
And we build a future to honour pasts we've left behind
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we hope that tomorrow never comes
That it never comes...
It's just you and me now
It's just you and me now
It's just you and me against the world
It's just you and me now
It's just you and me now
It's just you and me against the world
It's just you and me now
It's just you
It's just you
It's just you and me against the world
We conquer paradise just to burn it to the ground
And we build a future to honour pasts we've left behind
We bring destruction, we bring war without an end
And then we hope that tomorrow never comes
Intro:
Yo a man don't got nothing to die for ain't worth living
Youknowhati'msayin? yo i do this shit for niggas in jail cells niggas
The corners hustlin'. youknowhati'msayin? i do this shit from the
Heart
Man.
Verse 1:
Yo i write rhymes for bemerz rovers overachievers
O.g.s and young thugs wanna hold heaters
One love real niggas not gettin' out to make a deal nigga
I leave a nigga head numb like bill snivers
Figure me out my duns pillin' infinities out
I'm on some real shit blowin' my enemies out
If there's a thrown touchin' it i don't condone
Pocket biggie rule forever don't get it confused, never
My testamony will be death to a phoney mc
You wanna impress me show me a key
Or i suggest we manifest this a drug deal test
Put your coke in the water solidify the rest yeah
Never question this poetry i'm manifestin' this
Graffitti scriptured my mind paints an easy picture
Analyse every line my scene will vandalise
Mega montana handle mine yo at night i use to fantasize
Triple beam scheme banana five yo my pen keep the plan alive
I went from misdate to big h my niggas know i keep the shit straight
Cormega talking:
Yeah ya know testaments it's like uncuut raw dope you know? bag this
Ship this to ever hood knowhati'msayin' son? you pump this on your
Block
This is where i stand for my clinetel you know? then after that we
Have 'em
Make distribution of this, word.
Verse 2:
Yo i need stacks of green either rap or cracks to fiends
It's mad trife i seen enditments trap my team
Yo deep thoughts supreme courts decievin' me
Trapped in the belly like the beast was conceiving me
Thug status yo son i'm above average
When it's time for you to die does love matter?
You ain't sharing nothing payin' that and on bail weighing nothing on
Scale
Nigga you stay frontin' me i got plans like niggas who chop grams
See when i eat my niggas eat
See you wouldn't understand i'm too real for you
What you dream i live and breath which means
Don't make me have to kill you play the game
See real niggas stay the same
Y'all niggas scarred to play our change
Cause y'all forgot the streets where ya came
Shit is real yeah my words sound forbidden still
I write lines for niggas still i wipe dimes who livin' ill
I represent excellence my minds and i my third eye a extra clip yet to
Spit
So never questioned it poetry i'm manifestin' it
Graffitti filled testament
Cormega talking:
Yeah motherfuckers to east to west the money green on your side the
Money
Green on my side. (ha ha) let's get it, get it together. nawmean?
That's my
Testament. that's what i stand for. either with me or against me. i'm
My lonely way
Day after day
Can't find my inspiration
Settle for consolation
I'm wasting away
The sky begins to fade
And I wish that I was made
To stand against the wind
As if it were my friend
I feel betrayed
Please hold to what you know
'Cause I just can't seem to tell you how I feel
And I feel something in my soul that tells me this is real
And I know I can't explain
Why pleasure feels like pain
Try to hide, try to subside
Everything I feel inside
Please hold to what you know
'Cause I just can't seem to tell you how I feel
And I feel something in my soul that tells me this is real
Please hold to what you know
'Cause I just can't seem to tell you how I feel
I feel something in my soul that tells me this is real
Please hold to what you know
'Cause I just can't seem to tell you how I feel, yeah
I feel something in my soul that tells me this is real
It's real
It's real
It's real
It's real
It's real
It's real
Anger, despair and tears guide
My hands upon this parchment
My torments will stop now
Because my destiny, I master
No one lays down his arms
The next day always comes
I only can live without it
Or die in betrayal
My will is weakened and
I am a wretched fighter
My consciousness slowly
Fades away to a world of no return
But our love is eternal
It shines of a blinding light
It will continue to reign
Within me after my death
I don't want their pity
Nor your tears
The way out of suffering
Is the only flame which drives me
I leave no heir
I destroy all that I was
I take away in silence
All these armies in abyss
Make the truce now begin
Of this war I banish
I feel the cold reaching you
This way an episode ends
The one of your life
For my spirit to join you.
In this waves of loud noises
style wie armani komm ich undercover mata hari
jag euch wie safari ohne high-tech von atari
larifari punami raps kill ich ohne hektik
bin mcs überlegen wegen meiner krassen dialektik
also check mich such dir schutz verteidigung und deck dich
meine technik ist so geil dass ich selbst schon mal'n brett krieg
wie schrecklich du bist schmächtig und dein reim ist mager
versager denkst du hast was drauf aber nix auf lager
aber aber spar dir dein gelaber schade piepmatz
ich prell dich auf den boden und slam dich wie vlade divac
also flieh kratz die kurve und makier hier nicht den macker
ich kanack dein code wie hacker nagel deinen arsch fest wie'n tacker
jeder fucker will'n reimduell mit sekundant und schiri
doch nach meinem ersten satz begehen die meisten harakiri
und da wir nie unsere skillz verlieren wird das nie was
ich wehr mich für alle fälle sogar mit 'nem colt wie seavers
Chorus:
sag ist es schlimm für dich dass mein talent wie feuer brennt
du bist nicht existent während jeder meinen namen kennt
sag hast du angst vor mir weil jederdeiner leute rennt
wenn mein reim aus den speakern bangt oder bist du resistend alter mach deintestament
drauf geschissen mein immenses wissen konstruiert gerissen
geschichten die dissen mcs aufschütteln wie kissen und pissen
ohne ein gewissensbissen auf wannabes und loser
ein blick genügt und ihr erstarrt wie bei medusa
von cruiser bis schwergewicht vollmond oder tageslicht
schlag ich dich mit raps ins gesicht also laber nicht ich mag dich nicht
mein style ist top deiner keller du machst auf rockefeller
trotzdem kill ich dich af jedem beat und a cappella
ich schein heller und geriler als jeder komet bin aber schneller
rock mics auf riesenbühnen und geb'n scheiss auf arabella
jeder chico denkt er wär's und will nach mir ans micro
doch ich komm inkognito und tret sein arsch nach puerto rico
wenn ich auf beats flow wirst du schizo und deine freundin läufig
wenn dein style fett sein soll ist kate moss miss mollig 99
Chorus:
sag ist es schlimm für dich dass mein talent wie feuer brennt
du bist nicht existent während jeder meinen namen kennt
sag hast du angst vor mir weil jederdeiner leute rennt
wenn mein reim aus den speakern bangt oder bist du resistend alter mach deintestament
ich komme rein mit einem wie horishima
wie klimakatastrophen überflut ich deine liga
deine krieger sind gegen mein kaliber längst schon tot
ich kick dich wie jean clade uund fress dein kinderreim zum abendbrot
du bist in not pass auf falls du mein label kennst
mein style ist geiler als zehn topmodels beim table dance
ich hab mehr fans als jetons im casino
machst carnival in rio und bist so fake wie deine bio
machst auf hero wie im kino weil d in echt zu schlecht bist
dein style so hart wie blech ist und erst recht nicht so'n hecht bist
du bist jiggy wie miss piggy und so live wie helga feddersen
wie'n shuriken treffen dich meine worte hart wie'n splatterfilm
dein retter bin beim battlen bin ich selbst und dann komm ich wiesamson gegen tiffy uund smack die bitch mcs wie prodigy
bin'n monster wie ferris 'n spezializt wie herris und dean
und bomb deinen arsch wie nitroglyzerin
Chorus:
sag ist es schlimm für dich dass mein talent wie feuer brennt
du bist nicht existent während jeder meinen namen kennt
sag hast du angst vor mir weil jederdeiner leute rennt
Na 22 jaren in dit leven
Maak ik het testament op van mijn jeugd
Niet dat ik geld of goed heb weg te geven
Voor slimme jongen heb ik nooit gedeugd
Maar ik heb nog wel wat mooie idealen
Goed van snit hoewel ze uit de mode zijn
Wie ze hebben wil die mag ze komen halen
Vooral jonge mensen vinden ze nog fijn
Aan mijn broertje dat zo graag wil gaan studeren
Laat ik met plezier 't adres na van mijn kroeg
Waar 'k teveel dronk om een vrouw te imponeren
En daarna de klappen kreeg waarom ik vroeg
En dan heb ik nog een stuk of wat vriendinnen
Die wel-opgevoed en zeer verstandig zijn
En waarmee je dus geen donder kunt beginnen
Maar misschien krijgt iemand anders ze wel klein
Voor mijn neefje zijn mijn onvervulde wensen
Wel wat kinderlijk maar ach ze zijn zo diep
Ik behoorde immer tot die groep van mensen
Voor wie 't geluk toch altijd harder liep
Aan mijn vrienden laat ik gaarne het vermogen
Om verliefd te worden op een meisjeslach
Zelf ben ik helaas een keer teveel bedrogen
Maar wie het eens proberen wil die mag
M'n vriendinnetje ik laat jou alle nachten
Dat ik tranen om jouw ontrouw heb gestort
Maar onthoudt dit wel ik zal geduldig wachten
Tot ik lach omdat jij ook belazerd wordt
En de leraar die mij altijd placht te dreigen
Jongen jij komt nog op het verkeerde pad
Kan tevreden zijn en hoeft niets meer te krijgen
Dat wil zeggen hij heeft toch gelijk gehad
Voor mijn ouders is het album met de plaatjes
Die zo vals getuigen van een blijde jeugd
Maar ze tonen niet de zouteloze praatjes
Die een kind opvoeden in eer en deugd
En verder krijgen z'alle dwaze dingen
Terug die ze mij teveel geleerd hebben die tijd
Ze kunnen mij tenslotte ook niet dwingen
Groot te worden zonder diep berouw en spijt
En dan heb ik ook nog enkele goede vrienden
Maar die hebben al genoeg van mij gehad
Dus ik gun ze nu het loon dat ze verdienden
Alle drank die ze van mij hebben gejat
Verder niets er zijn alleen nog een paar dingen
Die ik houd omdat geen mens er iets aan heeft
Dat zijn mijn goede jeugdherinneringen
Die neem je mee zolang je verder leeft
Verse 1:
I've been blessed with many things
God's been so good to me
I have family and friends who share in all I do
But if I lose it all and I'm left with nothing
If I have the Lord, I know I'll make it through
Chorus:
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
There's nothing in this world worth living for
It only leaves you empty and longing for more
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
Verse2:
Yyou may have tried a lot of things
To find real happiness
But if you've looked very long, you know it can't be
found
Until you find the Lord and you know the power of His
spirit
His sweet Holy Sprit He'll be your reason to live
And he'll never let you down
Chorus:
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
O He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
There's nothing in this world worth living for
It only leaves you empty and longing for more
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
Bridge:
You see there's nothing in this world that's worth
living for
It only leaves you empty and longing for more
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
He's the only reason I live
But oh what a reason
Sacrilegious and unholy
My hand continues
To feverishly scrawl words
I would never dream of speaking
Onto scarred and bleeding parchment
I am torn
Between the kingdoms of Heaven and Hell
Quartered by angels and demons
My shredded flesh rests in heaps
Pecked at by doves and crows alike
My very soul is oppressed
For this battle is far from over
There is no devil on my shoulder
For He has comfortably made
His home inside of me
Unsuccessful exorcisms
Are attempted in vain
For a tortured soul
I remain
I am but a vessel
An extension of His blackened sway
Imprisoned in my own mind
Held at knifepoint and forced to transcribe
His will
His wicked word
His will
His wicked word
I frantically whisper prayers to God
When I find myself alone
But the malicious one
He will soon return
He will soon return
I frantically whisper prayers to God
When I find myself alone
But the malicious one
He will soon return
Some roads are so long to run around, just cut it off.
These things would be nice to know.
Now that trip you take
will take you further from you to see,
leave us all.
Now just by default I filled that ongoing.
Is this a testament of what we always knew?
I'm looking so much more like you, we're both aging well.
In bed we're crying out.
Now that trip you take
will take you further from you to see,
leave us all.
Now just by default I filled that ongoing.
Now just by default...replace me and you...
Is this just a testament lying it out again?
Walking through the garden
Through the garden of temptation
Tempestuous in youth
Seek the testament of truth
An angst that bears no sobs or self-pitied cries
He cherishes his one daily job with pride
The job to stay alive
Quest for reasons in empty hearts
Death the adventure when life's the bore
But in the face of defeat a lion roars
Statutes stand like statues
Laws stagnant in value
For the rulers of the ruled
The fools and the fooled
But should your carcass rot in a gutter
While your ideals go to heaven
When rebellion's the cause
Like a spartacus it's yours today
And tomorrow this testament will fall
Dying to be written
A new testament to be born
The lion roars, the lion roars
The lion roars as never before