Angel Witch is a British heavy metal band which formed in London, England in 1977 as part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement.
The band was formed, originally under the name of Lucifer, and was initially composed of guitarist and vocalist Kevin Heybourne, guitarist Rob Downing, drummer Steve Jones, and bassist Barry Clements. Lucifer split and Steve Jones joined up with Bruce Dickinson to form Speed. The remnants of Lucifer became Angel Witch, with the exceptions of Barry, who was replaced by Kevin Riddles, and Steve Jones, who was replaced by Dave Hogg. The following year Rob Downing left the band.
Angel Witch's first song to achieve mainstream popularity was "Baphomet", which was included on a compilation titled Metal for Muthas. This song drew a fair amount of attention to the band, and they eventually signed a recording deal with EMI. However, the deal was soon canceled, due to Manager Ken Heybourne refusing to hand Angel Witch over to professional management, and bad performance of their first single released under the EMI label, which was entitled Sweet Danger and lasted a single week on British top charts.
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
As I walk alone I can feel you there
People said to me
That you've got long black hair
You are the sorceress
I've seen your castle
Oh take me there
And hold your wand up high
A star of spectrum
A rainbow sky
Dancing around your grave
I'm glad you're gone
Can your soul be saved
Go back to where you belong
You walk through the mountain side
Mysterious powers go passing by
A storm is coming near
A soft warm breeze blows through the trees
Written by Kevin Heybourne and Sue Heath
You can't always see the inside of me
You can't see what I must hide
When you look I turn my head and run
I'm in fear for my life
I can see you everywhere I go
Why can't you just go away?
When it's midnight and I lie there awake
In the darkness of my room
I feel your glaring eyes staring at me
I just want to be left alone
If I close my eyes
Will you soon be gone
I feel I'm going insane
Nowhere to run
Now there's no escaping
Nowhere to run
I am a prisoner
Nowhere to run
It's like insanity
Nowhere to run
I can see you in the shadowed night
Nowhere to run
I can see you everywhere I go
Why can't you just go away?
Nowhere to run
Now there's no escaping
Nowhere to run
I am a prisoner
Nowhere to run
It's like insanity
Nowhere to run
I can see you in the shadowed night
Nowhere to run
As the sun begins to rise in the sky
And the night is nearly through
Now my nightmare turns into reality
I turn around and it's you
My head it aches, what the hell is going on
I feel I'm going insane
Nowhere to run
Now there's no escaping
Nowhere to run
I am a prisoner
Nowhere to run
It's like insanity
Nowhere to run
I can see you in the shadowed night
Why can't you understand
We're not out to get you
You say we're cheating,oh but
No one believes you
You fake it to believe yourself
You tell the tale of how I cheat
So well
Loser
Why can't you just accept the facts?
Loser
You only make yourself seem bad
I try to calm you down,
Trying to protect you
But who can help the man
Who will not see the evil?
You try to blame everyone else
You will not see you brought it all
On yourself
Loser
Why can't you just accept the facts?
Loser
You only make yourself seem bad
You try to blame everyone else
You tell the tale of how I cheat
So well
Loser
Why can't you just accept the facts?
Loser
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
Can you hear the voice
Of a thousand years ago
The laughter of the Gorgon
A female that brings doom
Don't look her in the eyes
Or you'll turn to stone
Don't let her deceive you
If you sense her don't look 'round
Or you'll find that she will lead you
And you'll be buried in the ground
You may gaze at her reflection
In still waters of a lake
But don't look at her directly
Or death will be your fate
Beware of her at all times
Her serpents of hypnosis
More evil than the devil
Can kill you with her eyes
You have to get rid of her
The only way I know
Creep up behind with an axe
And decapitate with one blow
I can see you're all confused
And you feel you're being used
And now your heart is broken
So I watched as he set out
And without a doubt
He did as I advised him
You could hear the breaking of her bones
As the axe went through her neck
Didn't realise at the time
I've been locked away for all these years
Now I can see the light of day
Things have changed a lot since I was last out here
I guess that's the way things, way things go
Now I'm a freeman again
I don't give a damn what happens in there
Now I'm through, what a life
Because now I'm a freeman
As I look around I couldn't remember my old home
Now there's a tower block in its way
I remember all my friends and my wife
They don't want to know me anymore
They wouldn't listen, they didn't understand
They accused me of crime I didn't commit
It was some other guy, but it wasn't me
They wouldn't give in, they wouldn't believe me
But now I'm a freeman again
I couldn't give a damn what happens in there
Now I'm through, what a life
I remember when you used to come to me at night
You told me I was good for you
And then I found out about that other man
and with that patronizing tone that I was just another
fool
The times I tried to phone but there was no reply
Your voice would say you wasn't in
If you leave your name and number I'll get back to you
But with all my desperate tries you're back just to say
Goodbye
And I'm not in love with you, don't call me I don't
wanna see you again
You don't want me you don't need me I'm so lonely
please don't leave me for my love
Goodbye
And I'm not in love with you, don't call me I don't
wanna see you again
I remember when you used to come to me at night
You told me I was good for you
And then I found out about that other man
and with that patronizing tone that I was just another
fool
The times I tried to phone but there was no reply
Your voice would say you wasn't in
If you leave your name and number I'll get back to you
But with all my desperate tries you're back just to say
Goodbye
And I'm not in love with you, don't call me I don't
wanna see you again
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
In the middle of last night she went out to get her revenge
On the black witches they tried to kill her
They tried to sacrifice and burn her soul in flames
Some unknown force came and freed her
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
Death bears a sickly smile, will the fools ever learn
They still smile when their own death is near
She has got more power than you will ever know
They tried to harm but it's too late
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
Standing by your shadow
You're eyes are full of tears
You cannot seem to unwind yourself
You have killed death and fear
Forever and ever we are free
Together forever for eternity
She died early this morning from the spells of the dead
Death had its own way and won
Now she can rest in peace and sleep inside her grave
She cannot be harmed anymore
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
There'll be no tomorrow if the final curtain falls,
As a volcano erupts everything crushes to the ground,
No one can hope, unsafeness panic blocks their roads and their paths,
Apocalypse is happening and nobody stands a chance
It's falling, it's falling
The final bell is tolling
The world is at its end
To wait for Atlantis to rise
Atlantis to rise, Atlantis to rise
An empire underwater to rise up from its ocean grave,
Through all this planet, witness kings who'll overpower any god
And we can't stop this power as it will invalid men's creations,
The perfect race, the perfect world to rise from the oceans depths
It's falling, it's falling
The final bell is tolling
The world is at its end
To wait for Atlantis to rise
Atlantis to rise, Atlantis to rise
There'll be no tomorrow
If the land slices from the sea
As an earthquake begins
Nothing and no one will survive
Everything will be destroyed
Nothing will be left to the fire
As evolution begin to gain
Earth will turn to fire
It's falling, it's falling
The final bell is tolling
The world is at its end
Masters of Queens to all mankind
And souls with superstitious minds
Never passing knowledge
Here the ghost that sent us maybe
Hear the answers written by the dead
Leads us to a place we all dread
No no never turn your back on traitors
No no never turn your back on a friend
Evil lies lurking leaving you alone and in danger
Waiting in shadows just to steal a soul away
With lips of fire and daggered breath
She holds the key to her disguise,
You pull her close, to steal a kiss
It's all so hard to realize she has you in her tangled
web
And dozens have to be for long
No no never turn your back on traitors
No no never turn your back on a friend
Evil lies lurking leaving you alone and in danger
Waiting in shadows just to steal a soul away
Fatal kiss ohh that fatal kiss
Fatal kiss
No no never turn your back on traitors
No no never turn your back on a friend
Evil lies lurking leaving you alone and in danger
Waiting in shadows just to steal a soul away
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
Angel of death
A faceless evil spirit that haunts
Searching for the soul that he must take
Steed of white he rides through the realms of unknow
He is just a messenger from hell
Scanning the oceans searching for victims to taunt
Looking for those who dare rise him from the grave
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Riding along he cannot find those that he seeks
Yet he knows he is on the right trail
Breaking the circle, not knowing of the danger she's in
He takes her with him through stygian to hell
To hell
Scanning the oceans searching for victims to taunt
Looking for those who dare rise him from the grave
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
Suddenly I awake, looking 'round to see where I am
Realise it's been just a crazy dream
I open the door to find that he is waiting there
The angel of death has come to take my soul
My soul
Scanning the oceans searching for victims to taunt
Looking for those who dare rise him from the grave
Angel of death
Angel of death
Angel of death
here i wait, within this timeless place.
here against, my will.
my nightmares all become reality,
in my own fear of, the dark.
how can i live or escape,
your ill perpetual fear.
when my lifes in wondrous of the man.
im held here in hell and fire
its got souls and evil minds.
i just havnt got a chance in hell.
what will become of me, my destiny?
will i live or, be saved?
if only i could die, i'd free my soul.
how can i live or escape,
your ill perpetual fear.
when my lifes in wondrous of the man.
im held here in hell and fire
its got souls and evil minds.
i just havnt got a chance in hell.
can ya hear me, in the dark nights ?
can ya help me, to get away?
can ya help you, when im screaming,
in my own fear, of the dark.
can ya hear me, in the dark nights?
can ya help me, to get away?
and i help you, when im screamin,
in my own fear, of the dark.
here i wait, within this timeless place.
here against, my will.
my nightmares all turned to reality,
in my own fear of, the dark.
can ya hear me, in the dark nights?
and ya help you, to get away.
and i help you, when im screamin,
in my own fear, of the dark.
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
Nobody else can see you the same way as myself
Fly high and touch the sky, you're the angel I adore
If only you could feel for me that I feel for you
Why do you ignore me, angel, why can't I go with you
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
The more love I feel for you, the more you fade away
Why can't you come and love me, do I have to stay this way
I'm going to go insane if nothing happens soon
I look out at the night to see your shadow by the moon
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
Walk through the forest I can feel that you're there
Why do you run away?
I'd never hurt you, I'd never hurt you
That's the last thing I'd do
You're an angel witch, you're an angel witch
Suffer suffer suffer suffer
You cannot see the reason for your feeling
We've heard it all before
You have to love to overcome the hurting
Fate will take its course
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin' suffer
What do you want to learn those who've hurt you
Can't you see it isn't fair
You know the world everyone's too smoothly
You're just another in despair
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin'
Suffer you have to make a stand
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin'
Suffer you have to make a stand
Suffer what is this game you're playin'
Suffer sure to understand
Suffer what is it you're sayin'
What's try it out, Need no more lose it And you know, bad night can't tell You full around, the things are be no The fleets than a foment, the side to side You think the legions to make the worlds Faster and faster, posing in the glass, twenty expose The tame storming, rise it The creating through the floor Don't many frustrations Starts this show Oh no, no, no, She don't lie, a ten in you She any got, at another her face (2x) Another falls tile into her hand She cannot, betrayed rule in to role Whose the run stop she rule Into your past Into the corner, she bring her lie Start it to let, betrayed to crash to pay She burning around the, run want Into this heart She recall the primer trends Years ago, but she has done The unto her best And she's bye.... Oh no, no, no, She don't lie, a ten in you She any got, at another her face (2x)
written by Kevin Heybourne and Sue Heath
They laugh and shout for everyone to see
When they are together they are happy
Little children with innocent smiles
Who knows what may hide behind them
The sadness in the eyes of old folk around them
The children's spiteful games
They don't know they're hurting
Stop and look around you
For God's sake, look about you
Evil games, evil games
They tie you up, they tear your heart in two
One day they love, the next they hate you
When you're not looking they'll be out at night
To wonder streets investigating
The sadness in the eyes of old folk around them
The children's spiteful games
They don't know they're hurting
Stop and look around you
For God's sake, look about you
Evil games, evil games
The sadness in the eyes of old folk around them
The children's spiteful games
They don't know they're hurting
Stop and look around you
For God's sake, look about you
I stand looking for a friend,
Someone I can rely on,
All the people laugh at me,
I hide in my room,
They don't understand me,
Think that I have gone insane,
These four walls are closing on me,
Can't they realize my pain
Confused, confused, confused
Can't you see that I'm confused
The wild state of affairs gets worse and worse day by day,
Everybody seems to be confused,
No one ever knows the way
But still life carries on,
And you live a day and you just wait,
You only get one chance, don't let it just slip away
Confused, confused, confused
If the rain won't come
If the sun won't shine
If the sky turns black and there's no day or night
If the God's repent with their raging wrath and they're
here
They're involved with anger and no shame of fight
They'll cut through your soul at the speed of light
You'll be liying in pain saying you're feeling the
light
Please don't leave me behind
I have no fate in this massacre of hate
Come take me away from this hell and decay
Don't leave me this way
They won't take you down, they will just leave you
Screamin' and bleedin'
The sky is on fire and the lightening blinds
Hear the waling laughter drwoned by church bells chime
There's bodies writhing in twisted heaps on the ground
And they'll burn his body the unholy flock
See the devil burning, smiling with his flock
Please don't leave me behind
I have no fate in this massacre of hate
Come take me away from this hell and decay
Don't leave me this way
They won't take you down, they will just leave you
Screamin' and bleedin'
If the rain won't come
If the sun won't shine
If the sky turns black and there's no day or night
If the God's repent with their raging wrath and they're
here
Please don't leave me behind
I have no fate in this massacre of hate
Come take me away from this hell and decay
Don't leave me this way
They won't take you down, they will just leave you
Screamin' and bleedin'
Within this world of darkness who will hear us scream?
You would think that someone out there is in pain or
tears
You go out to help someone distressed or trapped
But the trap for you my friend for you its cast
At first she looks unharmful
Plaintive offensive
Till she turns around and then you see her face
We will twist your tongues you will curse with hate
Looking through you with whites of eyes and bleeding
red
She licks her finger and waves it and to to and ties
you close
And in the nick of time she backs away
She looks so absurd standing there just shaking
And she decides to run away from you
At first she looks unharmful
Plaintive offensive
Till she turns around and then you see her face
Within the shrouded darkness, you will hear her scream
You will think someone out there is in pain or tears
You go out to help someone distressed or trapped
But the trap for you my friend for you its cast
At first she looks unharmful
Plaintive offensive
Till she turns around and then you see her face
Child of the night
It's a stellar vibration encirceling us
Turning our brains into dust
Cosmic rays of the pagans's fate
And the heathens travel beyond the void
Relative power indulges through the universe
Genocide to the ozone layer
The aliens from the stratosphere's curse
Blows our minds to an evil prayer
The black hole makes its mark
Sucks us down into the dark
Is there another of the force of life?
Through the hole we could escape
Into all, while we travel as life
To understand what we might find
Into the dark
Is there a black present moon above your soul?
To take you places you just don't know
This dark stain affects your brain
Makes you feel good 'til you're in pain
So you take the agony
It makes sense to what you believe
You're under the moon of Geburah
Is your god there or not?
Makes you suffer, makes you rot
You're incapable of your own thoughts
Think you've won what's already bought
In this circle of repeat
You cannot leave, self-defeat
You're under the moon of Geburah
When night betrays the day and when evil has its way
Who can say they never turned their heads away
You hear screaming in the night and your hand feels for
the light
You thank God you're safe and not the prey
But how can you defend yourself when you don't face the
foe?
All you do is hang your head in shame
How can you defend yourself when you're too scared to
fight?
Looking for someone else to blame
Whose to blame for the shame
We all want to be free but none of us could see
We are all prisoners and we all forged the chains
From the cradle to the grave
We all like to think we're brave
But we're all cowards too scared to take the blame
But how can you defend yourself when you don't face the
foe?
All you do is hang your head in shame
How can you defend yourself when you're too scared to
fight?
Looking for someone else to blame
Whose to blame for the pain
Someone's fightin' in the street
We made a hasty retreat
Saying it's got nothing to do with me
Put yourself in his place
You got blood on your face
A helping hand and the night is watching
But how can you defend yourself when you don't face the
foe?
All you do is hang your head in shame
How can you defend yourself when you're too scared to
fight?
Looking for someone else to blame
Oh, the shame
And so the witness stands wiping the sweat from his
brow
Waiting for morning to embrace
The silence deafens him as moments pass like hours
His eyes gaze into the firelight
At the time, everything seemed to be going fine
But as he looked beyond he saw into her eyes
She has you now, desire takes over fright
There's nothing to stop her lust for blood
To and all time
Now he must take a stand
Look at the realms of darkness to see what the judgment
holds
Although his thought s escape him, he invites the
stench of evil
Now she's gotta grip the one eyed foe
At the time, everything seemed to be going fine
But as he looked beyond he saw into her eyes
She has you now, desire takes over fright
There's nothing to stop her lust for blood
To and all time
Don't run, can't hide your fear
Can't move can' fight can't scream
You are the first to see
The reawakening
Why in the hell did he go
Why did he follow his dreams
Obsessions took over his mind
Now he has to live with his find
Don't run, can't hide your fear
Can't move can' fight can't scream
You are the first to see
The reawakening
And so the witness stands wiping the sweat from his
brow
Waiting for morning to embrace
The silence deafens him as moments pass like hours
His eyes gaze into the firelight
At the time, everything seemed to be going fine
But as he looked beyond he saw into her eyes
She has you now, desire takes over fright
There's nothing to stop her lust for blood
To and all time
Don't run, can't hide your fear
Can't move can' fight can't scream
You are the first to see
The reawakening
It's getting dark as a sea
Your unblessed body
I walk past your grave see the stone has been disturbed
I look for a way that holds the key to your immortality
I approach the flats now the stench of the rotting
flesh
First to the touch I start to shake at the thought of
what I have to do
I should have known and I should have seen
The monster that I lived for then and just can't
believe
That it's not really her, it's only a body uncontrolled
without a soul
It's getting dark
I'm gonna smell at the Devil's spawn
and the last in the last in the last in the fall night
blood
Then I awake and they are surrounding me
As they start to tell I become one of them
First to the touch I start to shake at the thought of
what I've become
I should have known and I should have seen
The monster that I lived for then and just can't
believe
That it's not really me, it's only my body uncontrolled
without a soul
They waltz the night
They waltz the night
They waltz the night
They waltz the night
First to the touch I start to shake at the thought of
what I have to do
I should have known and I should have seen
The monster that I lived for then and just can't
believe
That it's not really her, it's only a body uncontrolled
without a soul
They waltz the night
They waltz the night
They waltz the night
They waltz the night
On the fifth storey block you can´t seem to keep away from the edge,
When you´re getting pushed off you´re thinking this is gonna be the end,
You keep on falling, keep on falling till you awake
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Trying to get away from, something drives you out whereever you go,
The harder you try the more your legs don´t want to know,
Please wake up, please wake up, you´ll have an attack
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Sweet danger, sweet danger
When you´re there nightly and you ought to know the end of the scene,
You got to get up somehow, till you realise it´s only a dream,
Please wake up, please wake up, it´s only a dream
Sweet danger, sweet danger
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the East Anglia Rock Festival, Mildenhall, Suffolk,
England, 24th of July 1982
As I walk alone I can feel you there
People said to me
That you've got long black hair
You are the sorceress
I've seen your castle
Oh take me there
And hold your wand up high
A star of spectrum
A rainbow sky
Dancing around your grave
I'm glad you're gone
Can your soul be saved
Go back to where you belong
You walk through the mountain side
Mysterious powers go passing by
A storm is coming near
A soft warm breeze blows through the trees
Written by Kevin Heybourne
What would happen if we all died tomorrow?
No one here to drown their tears and sorrow
Just remains of atomic warfare
No one cares, no they wouldn't dare
There's only shelter for the select few
No one else stands a chance
Till it's too late and it's on the news
No they wouldn't wouldn't dare
They wouldn't dare
Who can really really say
Wipe out the world in just one day
They wouldn't dare
The ones in power cause so much destruction
Destroy the world with one push of the button
It's okay for the ones who don't have to suffer
I suppose to them it doesn't even matter
What use is the world when only buildings stand
Once people lived on earth
But they who live an eternal grave
Stay below the will never be saved
They wouldn't dare
Who can really really say
Wipe out the world in just one day
They wouldn't dare
They wouldn't dare
Who can really really say
Wipe out the world in just one day
Written by Kevin Heybourne
Recorded at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, CA
In the middle of last night she went out to get her revenge
On the black witches they tried to kill her
They tried to sacrifice and burn her soul in flames
Some unknown force came and freed her
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
Death bears a sickly smile, will the fools ever learn
They still smile when their own death is near
She has got more power than you will ever know
They tried to harm but it's too late
Burn the white witch
Burn the white witch
Standing by your shadow
You're eyes are full of tears
You cannot seem to unwind yourself
You have killed death and fear
Forever and ever we are free
Together forever for eternity
She died early this morning from the spells of the dead
Death had its own way and won
Now she can rest in peace and sleep inside her grave
She cannot be harmed anymore
Burn the white witch
I've been waiting, I've been watching you you've been acting so strangely When i see you, looking worried There's no smile in sight
I never see you in the day light When i call, they say, you're not there But when i see you, as you are now I know there's something wrong
And it makes me want to bleed inside
Just keep away Don't come near me You will only get yourself hurt
I am noble, i have seen you You know just what i am
I cannot see you, anymore now I can see you from a distance I am falling out of this life The one that's in my mind
And it makes me want to bleed inside(X2)
(Guitar solo)
And it makes me want to bleed inside(X2)
And i know there must be something wrong
You flies a face the starts You cannot kill those words How come you hope And never to scape this crazy brained You look to find the door The cult me all play before You ahead to trick changes How much to, mind inside You tracked to turn the ran bow With something's, turing behind Will feel at your heart It's ramming inside your brain The chance to getting fools You know the unknown cots I was stopping you When living are meant your side No an entry run Your high leaping turns But screaming and to fell a touch, death In your mind A smeller can be razes The glory, than in go To forward in the nine wish's I be a hope your soul Dream World, your many a Dream World You know the history escapes (You know inside the brain) Dream World, your many a Dream World Your turn to play's, your feel (A problem has in here)